SHAPED BY A SECRET by Jill Biros features stories from women of all ages and shows how a person’s past experiences can shape their future. It’s an amazing book. Jill came to me and asked me to share my story. Here is an excerpt. I grew up in California, in a gated community with sort of Ozzie [...]
How to Stop Attracting Drama
According to the Urban Dictionary, “drama” is when a person overreacts or exaggerates the importance of a benign event. Growing up in Southern California, no event was ever benign. My life was filled with drama. Artists, alcoholics, and suburban housewives frequented our home and they always showed up with their greatly exaggerated stories. Their stories [...]
I Don’t Love You Anymore
“I don’t love you anymore. I’m leaving you.” It’s a stinging at first, that starts in your chest and then takes hold there until it grows another appendage which grabs at the stomach and takes hold there too. For months. Like it’s never leaving. The way you imagine cancer behaves. Only it’s not cancer. It’s [...]
How Do You Know if You Are in a Controlling Relationship?
I met a man nearly 2 years after my divorce. He was tall, dark, handsome and extremely funny. His distaste for alcohol was a turn on after being married to an alcoholic, and he was an honest man with high integrity; traits I’d never seen before in a man. Assisting a stranded person with car [...]