Tag: Personal
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Tell Me, How Do You Feel in Your Body Right Now?
Brutally Honest Postpartum Journal Entries (a series) Saturday May 31, 2025 || 27 Days Postpartum with Flora Kathleen I have been resisting the urge to cover up and hide my new body. I don’t personally feel ashamed of my body, but I worry about how others perceive me and I feel I must stay hidden…
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On a Healing Journey
Each year before my birthday I sit down to reflect on my life, where I’ve been, and where I think I’m going. This is that little reflection: ✨ On a Healing Journey ✨ “On a healing journey” is the best way I can think to describe my life right now. Some days I feel like…
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Answered Prayer
A few weeks ago, God took care of a situation and answered a prayer of mine that I have been praying about for a year now. I still find myself stopping in gratitude as I go throughout my day and taking a moment to thank God for providing and protecting me and my family. I…
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Who Am I?
9/5/2020 Who Am I at Twenty-Six? This coming Wednesday, September 9th, I will be twenty-seven years old. I’m sitting here struggling to figure out how I’ve gotten here and how so much time has passed. Since becoming an adult, the week of my birthday has come to be a time of deep reflection for me.…
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A Day in the Life — August 1st
Hello, August! I can’t believe you’re here already. This morning after I finally admitted defeat to my toddler and accepted the fact that I was not going back to sleep, I cracked the blinds and we said “Good morning, world!” like we usually do. Sometimes we say “Good morning, sunshine!”, but this morning’s sky was…
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Finding Light in the Darkness
This afternoon I’m feeling angry. Angry at our government, angry at ignorant people, and angry at the situation we all find ourselves in today. I know there are some things I can do, but for the most part nearly everything is out of my control. I don’t want to make light of the situation and…
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March — A Journal Entry
March feels like it’s lasted longer than 31 days this year. The year 2020 started out beautifully — full of life, hope, and change. January was, for me, a month of blooming. I attended a birth as a doula, went on a 21 day social media fast, and put an offer on my dream house with…
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Autumnal Beauty
Today was the first day of the season that truly felt like autumn. The sky was gray and overcast and there was a damp feeling in the air. One of the first things I do in the mornings is take Ellis to open up the sunroom. We say good morning to the plants that live…
Ashley Blair Smith 