In the moments when I felt myself sliding downward this summer, I continuously asked myself over and over again: What do you need? What do you need to get out of bed? What do you need to engage with your family? What do YOU need? Some days the answer was simple. I needed to live myContinue reading “Living the Layers: Opening”
Category Archives: Breathe
New Breath
“What lesson did my soul want to learn? I liked this question. It was new. Right then and there I felt it pointing me in a different direction. I felt it leading me up toward the light.” ~Elizabeth Lesser A few weeks ago, in the middle of my hot, heavy and stuck season, I wasContinue reading “New Breath”
Kindness is Quiet
“I’ve decide it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.” ~Nadezhda Mandelstam When I hit publish on the first blog post, So much more than no means no, I felt like an eighteen year old version of myself. I trembled. I took a shower and cried. In that shower and with thoseContinue reading “Kindness is Quiet”
I was raped
For five years, I’ve shared my story in this space but I always avoided it. I danced around it. I alluded to it. But I never acknowledged it. I never said the words I was raped on paper until yesterday. It’s never been a secret. It’s something I share in conversation with friends. It’s something I’ve neverContinue reading “I was raped “
Twelve.
I was twenty four years old the day Cole was born. Looking back, I was a baby. I got pregnant the summer after college having never worked an adult job. I spent that summer, fall and winter loving every moment of being pregnant. I was fascinated by the process. I read every book I couldContinue reading “Twelve. “
Kristy Maute 