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Is there anything more personal than the relationship you have with yourself? I don’t think so. I am going to get very personal here and talk to you about my challenge to learn how to truly love myself. It is after much soul searching that I have come to understand what it means to love yourself.  It has been challenging journey, and times you could even call it a war. Most of my life I have struggled with feeling loved. Trusting that I am unconditionally loved is not my natural condition. That all changed for me when I had my...

I know that I don't need to tell you that there are disappointments in life. Lately I've been experiencing my fair share. Sometimes things don't work out the way we planned. It's designed to be that way.  It's part of the journey of life. I'd like to tell you a story. Once, when I was around 7 years old I attempted to build a giant tower out of wooden blocks. I sat in the middle of our living room floor placing one block on top of another until it was over my head. With each new block the more excited...

the time has come to push that belief aside and come out of hiding

It's so easy to get lost in that dark place, to inhabit it with every part of your being.

Last year my widowed mother spent most of the year battling and then recovering from breast cancer. During the holiday season, I was fortunate enough to reconnect with my grandmother Frances's last remaining sibling, my great aunt. It was almost like having Frances there with me.

Relationships are always emotionally complex, but for a group of college freshmen girls working to better know themselves, female friendships must seem practically impossible.