For those of you paying attention, that business owner I wrote about last week also happens to be my boyfriend. His gesture was an unexpected and legit demonstration of love and support, very much like when my college boyfriend bought me a sound system so that I could pursue my singing career. He was inspired […]
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Being Responsible with your Communicatio...
Being responsible for your communication involves being conscious about what and why you are communicating, and how it is received. You want to speak your truth without harming others. Over There (with Them) Often, people feel like they’ve expertly communicated their feelings, but more often they’ve just dumped their feelings onto another individual. What was […]
Hustle Your Way Through Heartbreak
Girl, you gotta keep it moving. You can’t let heartbreak slow you down. Breakups happen. Heartbreak happens. Life happens. Pull yourself together, do what needs to be done, then come home and cry your eyes out, or do whatever you need to do to get yourself right. Go out with your girls, have some cocktails, […]
Teen Bullying and Suicide
I learned last week that one of my former students killed herself. She was 14. I’m shaken and very sad. Some people I share with are incredulous, thinking what could be so bad at 14? What could drive a young person to make such a finite decision? I can understand, because I was about that […]
Revisiting Valentine’s Past?
A young man came to me to run his romantic situation by me, a second chance at the “real deal” with someone from his past. Evidently, it was a significant relationship. I listened and it sounded familiar, so I offered him some of advice from what I call The Saga of Dawn and A. […]
Communication, Relationships and Thought...
I was caught completely off guard. I was sitting in the backyard, going through my email and making action lists when my partner came back and let me know that I had disrespected him and his work and it was not okay. What? Woah, okay. I stopped what I was doing. I put down my […]