I saw this quote on a very old little box in a very old, very grand lodge I stayed at in Scotland recently. 
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke” is a line that appears in The Betrothed, a poem by Rudyard Kipling. In the poem, the speaker considers Maggie’s appearance and what she might be like at 50, and compares her to other women. He…
Sometimes I feel a deep sadness rise up in me, for all the times I let myself down. 
For all the times I gave my power away to others. For all those times I kept my mouth shut while they abused me. 
For all the times I failed to stand up for myself, or to speak my authentic truth. For letting them turn me into a person I didn’t like. 
For giving away my energy, my…
This isn’t a question many people consider very often but it’s an important one. Do you like who you are in general? What about the person you are (or become) around certain people? 
What percentage of the time are you authentically YOU? Do you even know who your authentic self is? 
I’m happy to say at this stage of my life that I like myself most of the time. The times when I don’t like who I’m…
#reflection I’m so grateful to myself. Grateful I worked so hard at working on building my sense of self worth, self love + self esteem after I let partners who didn’t deserve my love tear it to shreds. Grateful I kept building my self love when I met Cam because I felt panicky letting his amazing kind of love in. I didn’t/couldn’t trust it at first. After 20 years of challenging relationships where I was let down over +…
I’m sorry for all those times I never let you speak your mind and stand up for yourself. I forgive you, I love you. I’m sorry for all those relationships I tried to make work when they didn’t deserve it. I forgive you, I love you. I’m sorry for taking years longer to move to Australia because you let yourself be held back by him. I forgive you, I love you. …
I N T I M A C Y ~ into me, I see 
After what felt like a lifetime of failed relationships, I met my amazing fiancé Cam when I was 38. In our last few years together I’ve realised how much all my relationships have been a reflection of how I feel about myself and what I need to heal. My past relationships were a reflection of; how I put others…