Body & Health
The Inside on Fight or Flight
If you’ve ever had a panic attack, you know what the physical “flight or fight response” feels like. The rapid heart rate, dark, narrow vision and focused, simplified…
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Category: Spirtuality
Culture
Efficiency vs. Effortlessness
I’d let my house get even more out of control than usual. Laundry piled high, dishes not quite done, backyard with a spillover of inside toys, piles of…
Mommess
Womanness
Leaving blanks, and spare of words. Images instead. Even a most Simple woman, Can leave a most complicated man Scratching his head. Follow Mommessa’s board The Journey…
Mommess
The beach rocks
One of the happiest times of my week is walking the beach with eyes sweeping the sand and rocks. Eight minutes away is a place where my dogs…
Creativity
The Power of Fiction
The tagline of this site is “one paragraph a day, truth or fiction.” In the world of meaning, fiction is often felt more powerfully than truth. Have you…
Family
Black Horse
So last night I settled in with my two-year old and five-year old to watch a movie. I thought we were about to see Black Beauty, but my…
Mommess
Walking between the worlds
If you are a woman who has faced depression or even discontent, perhaps you know what it means to walk between two worlds. One world is the literal,…
Best of Mommess
Enough-ness
I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for a long time, but felt as if I couldn’t shed “enough” light on the idea to be of value,…
Body & Health
Beauty for the highly sensitive person
I’ve recently seen a very interesting, thought provoking, yet wildly violent and dystopian movie, and I’m not sure that was a good idea. Like many people, I’m pretty…
Best of Mommess
A wake of awakening
I just saw a flyer on the gym wall about what it is like to have a spiritual awakening. It included bullet-pointed promises like “you have unexpected moments…
Family
Paying it out like paying it forward?
I love paying bills. I may be one of the few people that does. I like it way more than I enjoy invoicing my clients (which I sweat…
Mommess
Well-crafted or just barely slung into shape?
How many of you feel as if you are winging it much of your days? If you feel like you are in 100% control of your life, liberty…