Endings

I fall. I cry. I get back up.

If you’ve been following some of my recent blogs, you will know that in the past recent months, I’ve been thrown a few life challenges. To sum it up, I lost my job, my income, endured an abrupt and painful breakup, and lastly, lost my...

Dec 12 · 2 min read >

To You.

To You. The last few months have been one of the most challenging times of my life. I lost my job, my income, and along with that, a part of my identity. Then, the relationship with the man who I thought I was going to...

Dec 1 · 2 min read >

My letter to a dear friend going through a breakup…(an old post from 2009)

Breakups are never easy…and even though you survived your first one a few years ago, for some reason, it doesn’t get “easier” the next time it happens…it’s just different. You hurt just the same, in fact, the magnitude may feel even greater. Your heart feels...

Nov 16 · 2 min read >

The Heart Is Where The Home Is

After a breakup, you realize that on top of losing your romantic partner, you lose many other aspects of your life as well. Topping the list: community, family, companionship, security, stability, and the hardest one of them all -  your sense of home. It’s a...

Nov 8 · 1 min read >

Lesson of Heartbreak

I've been blessed with a very fortunate life. But like everyone else out there, I've had my share of hardships and demons to battle with. I've been through the death of close friends, been bullied to the point of misery, hurt my self-esteem repeatedly, and...

Oct 31 · 1 min read >

Remember the Good

When you experience a breakup or heartache, it is easy to focus on everything that went wrong. Your mind plays every disappointment and argument like a movie reel. Suddenly you have selective memory, and forget that there was once a time when the relationship was...

Oct 19 · 1 min read >

I Don’t Love You Anymore

A year ago today, the hardest words I think a woman will ever hear were said to me. “I don’t love you anymore.” “I no longer want to spend the rest of my life… with you.” I can still remember the blur, the feeling, the...

Nov 7 · 2 min read >