Love

04.25.17 // Love

Marriage, Touching, and Connecting

To touch something you experience it. To feel what you're touching is to love and live. I know I've only been married for about five seconds so my advice may be void to some pro's married for years and years but I believe that it's all relative. I was a serial repeater on dating men for extended amounts of time. I actually can classify years of my life under the guys names that I was dating because mentally it's easier to recall instances by the era of romantic interests. So with years stacked ...

04.18.17 // Love

Stop. Looking. Back.

Looking back, a simple curiosity of the mind for many. While it shows you history it also reminds you that it's behind you for a reason. Whatever that reason that may be isn't important you just have to remind yourself of the chances that you'll get so busy turning back that you'll trip and fall in whatever situation you're in; personally or professionally. The hard knocks of your mind or heart will never heal and regrow if you don't allow them the kindness of shielding their wounds with the ...

04.17.17 // Love

Margaritas + Marriage

What do these two things have in common? Quite a bit if you're open to it. Let me begin ... At the end of a long day we want something to buffer out the hardships we've had to face. We can choose between an adult beverage or a relationship and sometimes it takes both. Both things require directions and ingredients to make them work. The Margarita is one of the most popular cocktails in North America and for good reason. Combining the tang of lime and the sweetness of orange liqueur with the ...

04.17.17 // Love

On a Mission

mission statement |noun | a formal summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual. My mission, as I have chosen to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am. This mission will come along with the aspirations to be a source of positivity, love, and insight. Does it make me an expert? Nope. Instead it directs me a ...

04.08.17 // Love

To have and to hold.

What date marks the time limitation of whether you're a newlywed or not? Do you ever stop learning something new from your spouse? What about the changes that happen in life and the ones you grow with? That makes them new in a different aspect perhaps but still considered new. If you look at it that way, it's easy to observe and define that life is a journey every single day and that would make the people within them new as well, including yourself. For example, I battle Crohn's Colitis. Yes, ...