Denise M

Instead of asking myself what I want my home-to-be to look and feel like, I have spent most of the build basing it off of other builds that I really like. I also want to come together with Reed and create a vision that is based on what we both want our home to feel like. Reed and I will offer up ideas left and right, and as we go, the ideas get more and more out there and by the end, we are laughing so hard that we are in tears. It’s nice to break from the stress and rigor of a project like this and remember to reconnect and have fun!

About a month ago, my best friend, Devon, told me that he would be visiting his partner in Lebanon. Very quickly his plan to travel to Lebanon to visit, became him buying a one-way ticket and promising to return in a few months. I have always been intrigued by what lies beyond North America, a part of the world that I have called home for so long, but I have to admit, there are parts of the globe that I know very little about. They have remained grey areas on the world map in my mind, and Lebanon would most likely have remained that way if it wasn’t for my deep desire to understand the place that my best friend would soon call home.

About a month ago, my best friend, Devon, told me that he would be visiting his partner in Lebanon. Very quickly his plan to travel to Lebanon to visit, became him buying a one way ticket and returning in a few months. At the time, I didn’t want to believe that to be true, so I basked in the pretty thought that he was visiting and did n’t but a round trip ticket because he was going for an undetermined about of time

I was talking to my counselor the other day (a sentence I say a lot), and I was telling her about my negative self-talk. I thought that after I wrote the post “Compassion Is Key: Words from my 16-year-old self that still ring true today” or 11 Steps to Eliminate Negative Self Talk OR How To Eliminate Your Inner Critic that I would be better at… this. She suggested that I think of one way that I can chip away at my negative self-talk. What is one thing that you will do to help eliminate your negative self-talk or whatever is standing in your way?