5 years.

March 23, 2020.Reading time 16 minutes.

5 years. This morning I woke up with the beautiful sawtooth mountains as a backdrop for my morning, sipping coffee and taking in every fragment of the moment as my heart broke and mended a million times over. Thousands of pieces shattering apart and pulling back together, a beautiful ebb and flow that I have […]

if we choose to look in its direction

April 18, 2018.Reading time 18 minutes.

I feel like this is what always happens, so I’m sorry if I sound like a broken record (with a few months in between each record playing.) But here I am, writing a stupid blog post just to prove to myself that I can. Just to start and finish something. Just to get some of […]

creating my sacred space {office remodel}

February 1, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

I have always believed it’s super important to create physical spaces that we frequent in our daily lives that feel like comfort, home, and safety. I am the girl with thumbtack pictures and essential oils surrounding my desk at work, I am the girl with lipstick affirmations written on my bathroom mirror, and I am the […]

This is how we love now;

September 19, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

This is how we love now. Good morning text messages and Facebook official posts. Undressing our clothes as we build walls around our hearts, No one ever truly sees us naked anymore. This is how we love now. Love is not intercepted notes in English class and hanging up each time his dad answers the […]

so here I am, surviving.

February 19, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

I promised myself I would start writing again. I thought it would help. Force me to talk about the things I was feeling with paper the way I used to. Writing was one of the only things that truly understood me for a really long time. So, I said it was time to start back […]

For The Girl Who Just Wants To Know If It’s Going To Be Okay

December 24, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

For the girl who just wants to know if it’s going to be okay, Take a deep breath. Not only in the moments when you’re scared, upset, or on the verge of crocodile tears, but remember to stop and take a breath in the moments when you find yourself on top of the world. […]

What Are You Waiting for? If you were looking for a sign, let this be it.

October 23, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the night to end itself? For the light of day to creep into your sleepy eyes and bring you back to life? Are you waiting for a gust of wind to remove the covers, for the birds to dress you like Cinderella and your fairy godmother […]

A sweet reminder that You. Are. Enough.

August 19, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

This is a letter to remind you that you’re beautiful, should you ever forget. I hope you know that you are the most beautiful in the morning, eyes fluttering awake at the first sign of light, arms begging to hold the pillow for just five more minutes, legs aching to remind you how easy it […]

More than just a shell–the truest beauty could still be seen even if everyone was blind

July 7, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

I wish that I could help people realize how much more there is to life than looking a certain way. I’m writing this piece with hesitant fingers because I know what’s to follow. I know that a lot of people I don’t know (and, sadly, even more people I do) will read this in disgust […]

Anything but ordinary–what life is really all about

April 12, 2014.Reading time 9 minutes.

I’ve always been a dreamer. Finding possibility in the impossible, accepting the challenge when someone tells me I can’t do something, and going to bed at night knowing that my dreams with eyes wide open will always beat the dreams I see in my sleep. I often feel the fire burning within me, as I […]