Fatherless Behavior

There's so much more to having a 'stable' home than a mortgage and two people who claim to love each other.

I Lost Every Thing in the Fire

This fire not only destroyed my home, it also destroyed my world.

Room To Grow

I left home in South Carolina and don’t come back often—not because I don’t love and value my family, but because I crave room to grow.

How Gratitude Turns Pain Into Power

Pain is a fact of life–a tool of life that helps guide us in the direction of our deepest fulfillment because what pain is at its core is a call to make ourselves whole again.

A Word Of Comfort for the Unappreciated

While we are all celestial beings, just like the Sun, we are also human beings—and human beings are emotional creatures. So, while I hope that, just like the Sun, you'll continue to shine even without acknowledgment for your efforts, I completely understand why that might be hard to do.

Give People Their Flowers

Typically speaking, we want to be closer to those we admire and that's the key reason why we find it so hard to express admiration—because it opens up the potential for who we admire to reject us.

Why It's So Hard To *Be* Grateful

We think we'll be grateful once we're happy, but in reality, we'll be happy once we're grateful.

The Courage To Open Our Eyes In The Dark

Believe it or not, one of the biggest weapons in the darkness' arsenal is seriousness because seriousness traps us in fear, making every choice feel like it's life-or-death.

The Narcissist/Empath Dynamic

The empath’s fixation on 'saving' the narcissist is, in truth, a projection of their own unresolved wounds—their deep longing to be loved, seen, and validated. By focusing on the narcissist's pain, they avoid confronting their own.

How To Slay Your Sleep Paralysis Demon (or at least make friends with it)

All existing entities depend on an energy source for survival. 'Demons' are no different, except they don't feed on physical food. Instead, they feed on dark energies like fear, negativity, hopelessness, ignorance, greed, apathy, pride, confusion, narcissism, selfishness, and so on.

When The Light Begins To Fade: The Spiritual Significance of Seasonal Depression

In my experience, depression is a dying season, and these seasons only have to last as long as we're unwilling to let go of an outdated version of ourselves or an old way of living that has simply met its expiration date.

The 'Bad Boy' Dilemma

When you're a "bad boy," other people are just means to an end—that end always being pleasing yourself. And when others refuse to continue being an object of your pleasure, "bad boys" show just how bad they can be by being physically, mentally, and/or emotionally abusive.

Micheal In The Middle: The Pros & (mostly) Cons of Being The Middle Child

...and then there's the middle child, who probably also has a special place in their parent's heart, but it's a place that's only visited from time to time—somewhere in the lost and found section, right next to the other hopes and dreams they've forgotten or abandoned, lol.

Out the Mud: The Grace of Growing Up Poor

Nothing great has ever been birthed from a place of comfort because when we are comfortable, there is no incentive to grow, to change, or to evolve.

I Hate The Way My Voice Sounds

Typically when we think 'image' we think 'visual' but our self-image consists, not only of how we look but also of how we sound. Communication is a integral part of what it means to be human so the way we sound when we speak is indivisible from our self-image.