Today is my father’s birthday.
Every year, this day carries a softness — a pull — a quiet place in me where memory still breathes.
I don’t talk about him often, but he’s stitched into my life in ways most …
Category: Purpose
Grace Isn’t Gentle
Grace Isn’t Gentle
I didn’t stumble into survival. I clawed my way here, barefoot, bleeding, fire at my back and silence ahead.
The world called it strength. I called it stubborn breath.
Grace didn’t arrive in light. It came through …
October’s Double Ribbons
October’s Double Ribbons
October brings a double whammy for me when it comes to awareness.
For thirty-two years, I’ve reminded people to schedule their mammograms. My annual mammogram saved my life. Over those years, I’ve faced more scares than I …
The Time Miami Changed Everything
Some nights, the air feels like it’s holding its breath.
Miami was like that for me, not the beaches, not the neon. The silence in the space between what happened and what I can tell you… just yet.
I’ve been …
THERE IS A PAIN PEOPLE DON’T TALK ABOUT
There’s a pain people don’t talk about.
The pain that doesn’t leave bruises on the skin but carves itself into the heart.
I thought the worst was over the day I ran,when I finally escaped the life that could have …
I STEPPED OUT AND I’M NOT STEPPING BACK IN
For a long time, I wrote as someone, the author, the widow, the woman who survived.
But I wasn’t writing as me. Not completely.
Not as the life coach who sees the world through layered truths.
Not …
From my Hands to Yours…to Theirs
There is something sacred about sharing a story that was once too painful to speak out loud.
Writing The Unforgiven Walk Alone was not an act of bravery, at least not at first. It was survival. It was …
TELL ME WHAT IT IS YOU THINK I DO
Yes, please tell me what it is you think I do because I believe most people do not know, not really, I am sure I am going to laugh at the answers.
I am asking about the here and …
The Importance of Finding Your Purpose in Life
Well, here we are almost at the beginning of the 28-day challenge of finding your purpose here on Thrive Live From the Heart on Facebook.
We tend to go through life with preconceived ideas of what our purpose is, and …