Between the Tall Trees

 It's been a bit since I last wrote. I feel like yet again that life has been and continues to be this whirlwind of emotions and happenings, and I am struggling to keep up at times. I am usually a pretty open and transparent person when it comes to many things. However, when life gets hard, I retreat. I go into some sort of hiding. Hibernation, if you will. I haven't always done this, but it's something I've had to learn through recent years and months. To some degree, I still reach outward, but I am learning more and more to sit with myself and just reach deep within. It's almost like sitting in my closet and becoming still so I can get into touch with my knowing all over again. It's difficult and amazing, and it's defnitely a process.  I cannot and will not get into details as to what I am walking through in life right now, but I can and will tell you that there are a plethora of emotions involved. If you know me, you know I enjoy all things human behavior...

Well, here I am again. Life has been such a chaotic ride lately with a whirlwind of emotions, and I feel like I am struggling to stay caught up. I've been processing so many things in many areas of my life, too. It's been good, but it's also been hard and has caused me to really have to look deeply inward to get a real sense of myself through it all.  I feel like a broken record when I even begin to mention this book, but the message in it has truly been life-changing for me in the past year or so. The book is called, "Untamed" by Glennon Doyle. I read this book last year at the start of the pandemic, and I cannot even begin to tell you how much it helped me to set myself on a path of renewed strength, self-awareness, and self-discovery. In the book, Glennon refers to your "knowing." Your knowing is like your self-intuition to just know what you're supposed to do and then go do the thing...whatever it may be. Some Christians would even compare it to ...