This blogpost was originally written for Women at Well and was published on their blog in April of 2022. I’ve been putting this blogpost off all week. Not that I normally get my blogposts done too far ahead of the deadline…but this blogpost feels especially procrastinated… and especially taxing. Here I sit, on Sunday evening, in the stillness of my office. The dim light of the lamp on my bookcase illuminates the room, and my dog is softly snoring on her bed behind me. I’ve been staring at my laptop for the better part of 45 minutes. Type, type, type. Hold the backspace key. Type again. Backspace again. Words have…
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I sat quietly in my living room, embers glowing softly in the fireplace, as I felt a familiar pain begin to flicker in my heart. The kind of pain that wells up from somewhere deep inside and burns in places I didn’t realize had nerves – a throbbing heartache. My husband had gone to work, my workday was done, and an open evening lay ahead. There, in the dim light of the lamps and the fireplace, snuggled up in my favorite spot, I felt utterly lonely – a familiar feeling, a recurring experience in my life. “Why do I feel so lonely” I wondered. I’ve known the burning heartache of…
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Have you ever felt distant from a dear friend? Maybe you used to text each other every day but now it’s been weeks since you’ve heard from them. Or perhaps you used to have long, easy conversations with them over a glass of wine but now you simply exchange a quick “hello” and “how have you been” and “we need to get coffee sometime” when you happen to run into each other at the grocery store. Maybe your friendship has morphed into a pleasant but totally operational one – you know you can rely on each other and only reach out when you need something from each other. And you…
