There is something about putting on a dress that feels just right. The one that fits the waist just so, and how the heavy fabric swooshes as you dance to the 1940's jazz. For me, the green one with cloth-covered buttons, cut in a vintage-inspired shape, is dotted with pink floral designs.

I didn't realize that swing dancing would help me reclaim understanding of biblical masculinity and femininity.

ere I am again, the little girl who grew up into a young woman fighting to understand her value. It’s coming… in waves like the rippling one

Who am I? (The Impact of Verbal Abuse) “You are inconvenient.” The simple words echoed in my life and my behaviors for 12 or more years. These words compounded by dismissing behaviors, silent treatments, disdainful looks, and other cutting words made the statement over my life seem like truth written in stone. If it was true for him. This must have been true for everyone in my life. I was a burden. It didn’t take two parents speaking this way in my life. It took one. Words bu

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I Get a Choice | A Poem Despair, trial, Depression, Denial. Bit by bit they took my peace, They ate at what was left of me.   You see her...

Photo Credit: Joey Muniz, Unsplash I went to Biblical Counseling… I didn’t want to go. I was “doing great” according to the survey I sent...