Tag: Thoughts
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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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The Open Door
For the first time in a long time, things felt sweet and safe. I asked myself if I was ready to conceive another child and “disrupt” this little dance we had all learned the steps to. I also asked myself if I was ready to “give up” my body in order to grow another life…
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Feeling Life to the Fullest — Turning 30
Today I am bidding adieu to my twenties and stepping into the new and unfamiliar territory of my thirties. When I was younger, I thought that I would be approaching this date with bated breath, sorrowful to leave the youth of my twenties behind. However, as life would have it, I am feeling almost the…
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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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Remembering Maw — Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012
Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012 — A Personal Journal Entry This is an excerpt from a journal entry of mine from May 2012. I was at a Memorial Day family cookout at Maw’s house. That evening of the cookout I spent time looking at one of Memaw’s (Maw’s mother) scrapbooks and I also remember having a…
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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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My 27th Birthday
Every year around the beginning of September, right before my birthday, I like to take some time to reflect on the past year and look at what I’ve gone through and how I’ve grown. Last year when I wrote this type of reflection post, I said that 26 had been the hardest year of my…
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Mental Health Awareness Month
I remember that when I took this photo on my birthday weekend in 2020 I thought 27 was going to be “my year”. After the past few months with the pandemic going on and the craziness that the world was in, I thought that surely this coming year would be better and things would start…
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A New Year
2021. A new year, a fresh start. I’ve been taking things slow recently, enjoying the stillness and calm that the winter brings. I wanted to share a little bit about my January and the word I have chosen for 2021. I might ramble on a bit, but that’s okay. I’m giving myself permission to freely…
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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.…
Ashley Blair Smith 