What Motherhood Takes From Us (And What It Gives Back)
A reflection on identity, creativity, purpose, and the often-unspoken realities of motherhood, inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s reflections on motherhood and creativity.
A reflection on identity, creativity, purpose, and the often-unspoken realities of motherhood, inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s reflections on motherhood and creativity.
As a society, we’re very desperate to believe that love works and that marriage work. That’s why we uphold couples that appear to have such a “healthy” marriage. Nevermind that we don’t get to see the difficult times and the ugly truths. We prefer to measure their relationship by the length of time because we’ve…
https://anchor.fm/purposefully-loved/embed/episodes/Dear-Exes-How-I-Really-Feel-About-Exes-eea502 https://anchor.fm/purposefully-loved Today’s episode is one that is close to my heart! Today I share with you what I really think of your exe. Yes, I said your ex. I know, it’s crazy to share my thoughts especially since I don’t know your ex. But hear me out anyway! I promise that you’ll walk away…
You’re probably laughing to yourself, and thinking, ‘um, no it doesn’t’! Well, you might be right about that, but you might also be kind of wrong about that. Marriage, on it’s own doesn’t fix anything. You can treat your marriage as a contract between two people or you can treat it as a covenant and…
I think one thing that is clear to me by now is that my story isn’t one with lots of flowers and sparkles, and I’m completely fine with that. Know why? It’s because I’ve worked hard to be the person I’m today. It’s because I know there’s nothing in the universe that happens by accident….
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