It is expensive to stay damaged. Has being broken broken your piggy bank? Research supports that trauma distorts your perception. So what have you gambled away to make someone or something stay?

They always say that when you stop looking is when you find it. In this journey we called life you meet people along the way, different people at different. The people you meet at your best if not the same as you meet at your worst. You decide when’s the best time to meet people and when you’re capable of making the best decision.

In this overstimulating world with a surplus of choices is very easy to get distracted. But is also easy to self sabotage by using avoidant behaviors. Moral of the story is a thin line between distracted and avoidant.

Are you willing to lose people, opportunities, or even yourself for what you don’t say? Is the discomfort of a sensitive conversation worse than the discomfort of unexpressed emotions?

How firm are you with your boundaries? Do you test your own limits? Often times we talk about other people pushing our boundaries but do we honor our own boundaries? It starts with discipline within yourself.

Along with you getting to know yourself and learning your triggers, one must know what makes them feel better. Life and people have a way of depleting you but what revives you?

Seven days into the new year and I’ve set a New Year’s resolution after years of giving up on the concept. The theme of this year for me is GREATER, good is isn’t good enough.

Exposure is everything. We all need those people in our life that have been where we’ve been and arrived at where we’re headed. I’m thankful for this incredible conversation with radio personality and my Uncle, Chris Shaw.

There’s talk that “the one” is unobtainable. Where are my hopeless romantics because the people are getting discouraged. I’m on the fence because when you feel as though something is missing “what if” always plays in the back on your head and no happy relationship can come from that. But what do you think?

There are things attached to your name but if you don’t show up as yourself and walk you walk…you’ll never get them.