Tag: relationships
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Reality Check: It’s Not Okay
Disclaimer: This post will be a bit deep, I will be very vulnerable, and I will be talking about domestic/intimate partner violence. Please only read this if you can handle it. | Reality Check: It’s Not Okay | I sat in the big, cold classroom annoyed. I had boxes on my cosmetology worksheet that needed…
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Heart Check: The Incident. The Ignoring. The Interjection.
I can vividly remember hearing his voice as if he just said it. It was the Sunday before Memorial Day, and I stood at the altar with tears streaming down my face. It had been a hell of a week leading to this moment, I was emotionally and mentally exhausted, and my pastor had just…
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Adjustments: Being 30, Restricted Areas, Making Room
Disclaimer: Today’s blog may be a collection of jumbled thoughts and rambled expressions. Have you ever had something to say, but you are quite sure how to say it? That is how I feel today and have felt for about the last six days leading up to this blog. As always, I am writing from…
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Open, Closed, and Locked Doors
“I’ll never let them get that close to hurt me again.” I uttered such words in moments where I pieced the broken fragments of my heart back together. I spoke in absolutes. No one in their correct mind would allow themselves to be vulnerable to the same force that crushed them once before. I vowed…
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Journey to 30: Who Am I?
“Turning 30 changes your life,” they said. “A major shift happens when you turn 30,” I was told. “You really start to figure out who you are when you turn 30,” I heard. And it has all been true. Last week, with my blog “Journey to 30: Don’t Get Stuck,” I began sharing with you…
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Timing is Everything
“Being a light in darkness sometimes means that the parts of me that I’d rather hide are illuminated too.” Each week, I share a bit of my truth, peel back a layer, and allow you access to another piece of me. Today I will do the same. I’ll admit, I am a bit nervous because…
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Checking In: Dear Strong Friend
Once again, we are shook by the blow of suicide. It is all over the news, flooding our social media news feeds, and now the talk of the town. But for some of us, the news of another celebrity loss to the hands of suicide pales in comparison to the news of a loved one…
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The Right Fit: Where do I Belong?
Unintentionally, I guess I have started a two-part series as today’s post will piggyback off last week’s post The Wrong Fit. If you haven’t read last week’s post, you may want to start there. | The Right Fit: Where do I belong? | I am going to speak from the current state of my heart…
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The Wrong Fit
“Ms. Rouson, this cartridge won’t click into place.” I gazed up at my coworker with a look of confusion. In her hand, she held the staple holder from the copy machine with the cartridge inserted backwards. I couldn’t figure out how she could mix up how to properly insert the cartridge as number one, I…
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Chosen
Today I am going to allow you into a very private space with very fragile thoughts. Today I am sharing my heart with you. Please be gentle. | Chosen | Growing up, I had my wrestles with low self-esteem. It seemed like in every way imaginable, I was different. As I grew from adolescence into…
Christen Rouson 