Journal: #YesAllWomen

Last week I was reading the #YesAllWomen posts on my feed, but it wasn't until a friend shared her story that I realized I had something to contribute to the conversation. This is the hardest, most personal thing I've decided to share to date. It is pretty much all of the crap in my life laid out bare for everyone to see.

Journal: Guilt. Fear. Stress. Shame. Loneliness.

Guilt. Fear. Stress. Shame. Loneliness. This is what I'm feeling. I feel guilty that I haven't written here in over a week. I feel fear when I think about writing here again after missing so many days. I feel stressed when I can't follow through with my commitments. I feel shame when I don't shower regularly. I feel lonely being at home all the time...

Reblog: Mourning

Today I’m still out sick, so here is a reblog from the LuvCherie Jewelry Blog from May 2012. When I sat down to write this poem I was mourning the loss of my mom. Somehow along the way it morphed into me also mourning the life I could have lived without Fibromyalgia/CFS...