When there’s no one else to say no
• May 20, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in adult, adulthood, alone, careermom, child, decisions, divorce, emotional, emotions, failed marriage, family, feel, feelings, finding yourself, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healthy mom, home, honesty, humility, hurt, journalist, journey, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, lonely, mature, maturity, miranda lightstone, mom, moments, mood, mother, motherhood, mum, mummy, overcome, parent, parenthood, parenting, patience, personal, personal growth, responsibility, sad, self awareness, self discovery, single, single mom, single mother, single woman, singlemom, singleparent, son, take a moment, take time, talk, time, toddler, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, wife, woman, writer
Tags: alone, angry mom, angry mother, angry mum, chastise, child, children, growth, learn, life, life lesson, lonely, Miranda Lightstone, no, no partner, parent, parenthood, personal growth, say no, scold, scold child, single, single mom, single mum, single parent, son, writer
To the girl who wasn’t as prepared as she said she was
• April 4, 2016 • 7 CommentsPosted in acceptance, adult, adulthood, affair, aftermath, alone, bad day, boyfriend, broken, can't sleep, chaos, chaotic, cheat, cheater, couple, decisions, depression, disaster, don'tfuckup, emotional, emotions, end, ending, fall in love, feel, feelings, finding yourself, girlfriend, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healing, honesty, hurt, I love you, infidelity, journey, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life-changing, lonely, love, love hurts, mature, maturity, mess, mess up, miranda lightstone, moments, mood, moving on, new relationship, observation, open, opening up, overcome, pain, partner, past, personal, personal growth, protection, recovery, relationship, relationships, responsibility, sad, self awareness, self discovery, take a moment, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, unfaithful, woman, writer
Tags: affair, be prepared, betrayal, cry, crying, end, grow, growth, hurt, life, life lesson, lost love, love, make mistakes, mess up, Miranda Lightstone, mistakes, move forward, move on, over, personal growth, prepare, relationship
The Sobbing Tree
• January 30, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in acceptance, adult, adulthood, adventure, affair, aftermath, alone, bad day, bc, belong, boyfriend, british columbia, career, careermom, chaos, chaotic, cheat, cheater, child, coming home, couple, decisions, depression, disaster, divorce, don'tfuckup, emotional, emotions, end, ending, exploration, explore, failed marriage, fall in love, family, family history, feel, feelings, finding home, finding yourself, functional, girlfriend, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healing, history, home, honesty, humility, hurt, I love you, infidelity, journalist, journey, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, lonely, love, love hurts, marriage, mature, maturity, memories, memory, mess, mess up, miranda lightstone, mom, moments, mood, mother, motherhood, mountains, moving on, mum, mummy, new life, new people, new relationship, observation, open, opening up, overcome, pain, parent, parenthood, parenting, partner, past, patience, personal, personal growth, plan, recovery, relationship, relationships, responsibility, running, sad, safe place, self awareness, self discovery, single, single mom, single mother, single woman, singlemom, singleparent, son, squamish, take a moment, take time, talk, time, travel, travelling, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, unfaithful, voyage, walls, west, west coast, where you're from, wife, woman, writer
Tags: adult, adulthood, adulting, bc, breakdown, british columbia, career, change, coming home, divorce, emotions, forest, growth, hate, I love you, journalist, love, lover, Miranda Lightstone, mother, new job, parenting, personal growth, problems, run, runner, running, self-aware, self-discovery, single mom, thoughts, tree, vancouver, west coast, writer
What if you knew when it would end?
• January 18, 2016 • 3 CommentsPosted in acceptance, adult, adulthood, adventure, affair, aftermath, alone, belong, boyfriend, can't sleep, cat, catlady, chaos, chaotic, cheat, cheater, conversation, couple, decisions, depression, disaster, divorce, don'tfuckup, emotional, emotions, end, ending, exploration, explore, failed marriage, fall in love, family, feel, feelings, finding yourself, finish, girlfriend, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healing, honesty, humility, hurt, I love you, infidelity, insomnia, journalist, journey, kitten, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, lonely, love, love hurts, marriage, mature, maturity, memories, memory, mess, mess up, miranda lightstone, mom, moments, mood, mother, motherhood, moving on, mum, new life, new people, new relationship, observation, open, opening up, overcome, pain, partner, past, patience, personal, personal growth, pet, relationship, relationships, sad, self awareness, self discovery, single, single mom, single mother, singlemom, singleparent, take a moment, take time, time, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, walls, woman, writer
Tags: change, coming to an end, death, emotional, emotions, end, ending, evolution, evolve, experience, finish, growth, I love you, in love, knowing, knowledge, learn, life, life lessons, love, lover, Miranda Lightstone, new job, new relationship, personal growth, relationship
The Evolution of a Relationship
• January 8, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in acceptance, adult, adulthood, adventure, belong, boyfriend, conversation, couple, decisions, disaster, don'tfuckup, emotional, emotions, fall in love, feel, feelings, finding yourself, girlfriend, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healing, honesty, humility, I love you, journalist, journey, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, love, love hurts, mature, maturity, miranda lightstone, moments, mood, moving on, new life, new relationship, open, opening up, overcome, patience, personal, personal growth, relationship, relationships, self awareness, self discovery, take a moment, take time, talk, time, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, woman, writer
Tags: adult, adulthood, boyfriend, couple, evolution, evolve, find happiness, girlfriend, growth, happiness, happy, lessons, life lesson, love, loving, Miranda Lightstone, personal growth, progression, relationship, writer
A Somewhat Organized Chaos
• September 1, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in adult, adulthood, chaos, chaotic, disaster, divorce, functional, life, life plan, mature, maturity, mess, miranda lightstone, ocd, organization, organized, personal, personal growth, plan, single woman, singlemom, writer
Tags: adult, adulthood, chaos, disaster, divorce, emotions, growth, journalist, mess, Miranda Lightstone, personal growth, relationship, single mom, writer
The moment I knew I lost myself
• December 28, 2014 • 7 CommentsPosted in depression, life, life-changing, mother, parenthood, parenting, personal growth
Tags: beauty, change, divorce, family, guilt, journalist, life, life-change, Miranda Lightstone, mother, personal growth, self-discovery, self-worth, shame, strength, struggle, woman, writer