As previous blog posts have gone, I talk a lot about current situations in my life and this one is no different. But this time it’s coming from a totally different place. If you’ve followed me the last 6 months or so, you know I’ve had all kinds of differentContinue Reading…

So many times in my life I’ve gripped on to things so tightly, desperate to hold on. Whether it was friendships, relationships, a business venture or just things, I held on to some of them for far too long. The door would be shutting and God was saying “no” butContinue Reading…

This world. It gets scarier. It gets angrier. It gets darker. Days go by and something new hurts my heart daily that I see while scrolling through Facebook, or in listening to the news. People battling it out on social media, someone young dies from cancer, a young girl isContinue Reading…

A few years back, I was looking at people’s lives on Facebook. Sometimes I’d see smiling faces but knew their stories personally. Others would post there unhappiness or attitudes right there in plain sight. I’d also see their empty “good times” and knew what that night was really like becauseContinue Reading…

I remember when turning a year older was such a scary thought. I kept keeping myself on these crazy time constraints. Like, “I need to get married by this time and I need to have kids by this time, I need, I need, I need.” I remember waking up onContinue Reading…

I wake up and look in the mirror and think “even though it isn’t the thinner, less wrinkled, 25 year old Jill, this 32 year old woman staring back is finally absolutely beautiful- to me.”  I struggled with loving myself and respecting myself because of what the world said wasContinue Reading…