You ask yourself if you have the courage to love someone without losing yourself. You ask yourself if you care enough for someone to allow them to live in their truth, even when their truth is an inconvenience or you hate their decision. You stand tall and say, “This is me. I am not perfect. I am not beautiful all the time. And even though I might hate where you are right now, I love you through this”. And most of all, you make sure that you are loving yourself enough first.
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Homemaking and Healing believes that homemaking starts internally, not with where you live or how beautiful your decor is, but with assessing the structure of your spirit, mind, and heart. I am an abusive relationships survivor, loved one of those battling alcoholism, and a recovering co-dependent. I am a wife, mother, and child of the working class, POC community. I share from the perspective of one who seeks to be healed. This is my journey, with tips I've learned along the way. I hope you'll join me.
I’m Tired, And Responding To My Depression
This is a spontaneous post. I had been waiting on writing another post, waiting to write a “Marriage Update” post, where I could talk about how we talked it out and everything was all like “Valentine’s Day is every day!” like corny people say, bleh. Don’t worry, talk we did. But we are still processing.Continue reading “I’m Tired, And Responding To My Depression”
Angry SAHM Rant!!
So let me get the greeting out of the way. It’s out of the way. Excuse my curtness but this is one of those interaction like when you call your BFF like “girrrllll.” and then just get right into it, so here it goes. I’m depressed AF because I’m not getting enough support. Let meContinue reading “Angry SAHM Rant!!”
New Year, New Me?? Nah…
Happy 2020 my beautiful readers! As of right now we are an hour and 49 minutes in. I may or may not get this finished but my kids are all asleep and I had pretty much the most uneventful new years eve ever, but I liked it. My stunning rendition of Selena’s “Que Creias” whileContinue reading “New Year, New Me?? Nah…”
Dear Husband, You Are Not My Person…
Cris and I met when I was 17 and he was 19. It was not love at first sight. Truthfully, we both didn’t know how to love anyone until nearly the age of 30. By that time we had been together for 8 years and had 3 children with one on the way. I canContinue reading “Dear Husband, You Are Not My Person…”
10 Tips For A Sexy Marriage
I got this blog post idea from a friend of mine and I’m super late with it, sorry! But stay tuned because I have some really great tips for you guys! I think when people ask how to spice up a relationship they immediately start thinking about heading to Lovers and putting on a FrenchContinue reading “10 Tips For A Sexy Marriage”
When I Got Here…
So while I’ve written about my marriage conundrums and farm life updates, what I may not have mentioned is that I’m also a lover of poetry, I even write some of my own. I thought I’d share here a poem I wrote about the internal challenge I faced when I decided not to go intoContinue reading “When I Got Here…”
How To Be Happy Series Part 2: Setting Boundaries You Can Actually Keep
Hello gorgeous person! So this post is for sure one of the hardest I’ve had to write. While opening up and being vulnerable has it’s challenges, that tends to come pretty naturally to me. Boundaries on the other hand…not so much. It’s literally taken me years to become a mediocre boundary setter but I’m gettingContinue reading “How To Be Happy Series Part 2: Setting Boundaries You Can Actually Keep”
Farm Life Update: FINALLY Getting Used To The Farm & Marriage Conundrums
It’s 10:58pm and my 8 year old daughter is sitting next to me on her tablet. I should tell her to go to sleep but I don’t really want to risk waking up the baby and anyways what are summers for, right? I feel a new kind of exhausted with all 4 kids home onContinue reading “Farm Life Update: FINALLY Getting Used To The Farm & Marriage Conundrums”
How To Be Happy Series Part 1: Getting Clear On Your Desires
Hey lovelies, so while baby ‘Liano is already 3 months, I still don’t feel as settled in as I expected to be by this point. Things are quite different compared to when I had my daughters. Is it a boy thing? When I had my daughters I remember feeling so self assured, like I hadContinue reading “How To Be Happy Series Part 1: Getting Clear On Your Desires”