Blessing for the Undernurtured Child Within
Dear Sister ______, I give you a blessing for the undernurtured child inside. For too long you have clung to the lie that perfectionism would protect you. You let it tear at your self...
Tagged: Trauma
Surviving Coronavirus While White: Systemic Racism & A Call to Action #CopingWithCOVID19
My Story It was the last day of March this year. My family and I had been in lockdown for the better half of a month, the beginning of which had been self-imposed. Masks...
Cast Away, Together Alone
I am on a capsizing ship but there is no lifeboat, I sink . I clamor to swim and those in the lifeboats tell me that if I just swim hard enough I could...
The Hate U Give: Book review and commentary
As we mourn the death of George Floyd and so many of our Black siblings at the hands of police and other white supremacist people and systems, I want to share a resource that...
I am not free while any woman is unfree.
June 1, 2020 By LMA “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person...
A Gift of Darkness #CopingwithCOVID19
The collective grief of my country has surged for the second time in my adult life. The first time, I was a young adult, in college on September 11, 2001 when terrorists commandeered planes...
Whiplash. #CopingWithCOVID19
April 2020 – written 2.5 weeks into quarantine By LMA On March 9th, I traveled to Russia to visit one of my closest friends. At the very last minute (the day before I left),...
One eternal round.
by LMA December 2019 There are two poems in “I Gave Her a Name” that I often think of. The first is called “Lost” and describes some of the precious things Heavenly Mother has...
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