This Christmas, Do Something Different
I’ve always thought the holidays were a magical time of year–at least I certainly thought so as a kid. Cozy. Warm. The feeling of safety as I’m surrounded by love, egg nog, and family with of course, Kenny G to set the mood. However, as I grew up the holidays become more difficult. When I look around, I notice that it is much the same with others. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it....
Love Me or Leave Me
“Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.” – Tara Brach Sometimes life feels so very cyclical. Though I have made great progress physically, mentally and emotionally, one single moment of slipping can be so heavy that it almost outweighs the many...
LIFE AS AN EMPATH
Time for some transparency. My name is Jessica Crew. Yet [what I want to say when introduced is] I am neither limited by my name nor my highly-sensitive personality, though I thought so at one time. My own gifts were bigger than me. My superpowers were out of my control. 🙂 I had no space to breathe, to move, to be me. Perhaps it was just as well for I did not even know who “me” was (or which “me” I was for that...