Hello loves!   Are you ready for a data dump – I’ve got a lot.   Just five years ago, I don’t think I imagined having my ex-husband and his wife over for family dinner, but here we are. I didn’t quite picture this family dynamic, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. I am beyond grateful.   ********************   A big lesson I learned about love and partnership recently is that the right person will never be the one who rejects me for being me.   Once someone is comfortable, that’s when the real-ness of the relationship begins on both parts (this also applies to oth ..read more

      I feel like I’m in my eat pray love era – I need something to stimulate my pulse, and it can’t be found in my four walls.   I’m craving adventure and change.   I’m so tired of feeling alone, I miss having a best friend. That was so incredibly long ago at this point. The pain doesn’t really go away, you just feel different about it. A connection like no other.   Every day, I open my eyes and set my intention – you must choose your thoughts the way you use choose your clothes each morning. Don’t focus solely on what can happen in a month. Don’t think about wha ..read more

Energetically speaking, once you have made a connection – we still stay connected. But you must nurture your connection.   We do not stop loving those people we lose; the distance makes our connection staticky, and then the love fades over time.   When was the last time you were able to connect with yourself?     I feel like I have been circling back to my roots and trying to live with intention – now that is all I hear about – doing it with intention.   Everyone is waiting. If I have learned one thing thus far, it would be to not leave your destiny in anyone else’s ha ..read more

You can literally feel when it’s time to step into the next chapter of your life.   I have felt so “stuck” for too long. Meeting resistance (inside myself). I am stuck on lost love, lost friends, and most of all – that I didn’t mean to those people, what they meant to me and not focusing enough on my new beginning.  There was no closure – and that is something that I need to accept and move on. We go through so many ebbs and flows depending on the season that you’re in at the time. It is during those more difficult times that we reflect and build.   It’s about leveling up each t ..read more

Looking in the rearview mirror can often provide us with incredible perspective…but we don’t want to keep looking backwards, either.   I love myself for who I am and what I’ve become. People appreciate my authenticity. I’m a good person. I’m honest, at times – to my own detriment.   To say that I’ve been struggling in that one compartment of life; to say that I feel humiliated by the one person I trusted the most in my life – is an understatement.   I found myself hiding without even realizing it. Afraid to go out in public in fear that I might bump into someone, I hadn’t realiz ..read more

I read a quote this week: Ambitious women really only have two options: a super supportive partner or no partner at all.   This hit hard and for a few days I went down the path of preparing to spend my remaining years alone. Unworthy of love. Sex and passion are easy – I’m completely scared at the thought of ever letting my guard down again.   I made a video about it – check it out on YouTube.   The super supportive partner wouldn’t have made me feel less. In all the time prior to being a couple, he was so encouraging, and when we were first dating – but once he got comfortable ..read more

We tend to write from a place of pain, or the joyous perspective after.   Think about your favorite song – what’s the message?   There are so many songs that exist purely about heartache, life.   Tears are words meant to be written.   I’m sitting here on a Thursday afternoon, at a local bar (drinking water with lemon) after lunch with my team. I am still feeling so many many feels about what happened, my own heartache and alllll of the things that happen around me, beyond my control.   It’ll take time until it doesn’t sting so much – and the hurt is beyond bearable at ..read more

My heart has been broken. I’m struggling a little bit as I write this – I had the unpleasant discovery of finding out the man I’ve been in love with for the last five years, chose someone else, his ex (again). There are a million things I don’t understand, and that’s the part that sucks sometimes – I’ll never have the answers I feel I may “need” right now. Was it all a lie? I share it with you, because it’s wearing heavy on me at the moment. He held my hand through five of the last eight years of creating myself, and played a very pivotal role in my own self-growth. Our relationship ended ..read more

When your heart speaks, say it.     What is your love language? I implore you to find an online quiz and find out what yours is. It’s not just for romantic relationships – it literally defines ALL your relationships in life, including the one you have with yourself.   Quality time is the most important thing to me in all my relationships. And I’ve known that for years, honestly. It wasn’t really a surprise to me. And some of the best times I have with myself is just quiet time in the woods walking, or writing – just time to reconnect with myself.   Yesterday was a snowy day ..read more

It’s a new month, new beginnings – the perfect time for a restart!   You know, there are a million things I want to talk about – there is never a lack of words, really ever – which I am discovering has a lot to do with being an empath, a helper, and wanting to be heard.   I can remember coming home from school probably around Evelyn’s age (8ish) and talking to my mom about my day and she would lovingly reply “Jesus Christ Laura, it’s like you have diarrhea of the mouth”, no wonder I never shut up, longing for someone to listen to me. (Or I just have a lot to say)   As I’ve been ..read more