Who Am I When Love Isn’t Being Offered?
BY BRIGID HOPKINS For every individual who grew up with or lived through domestic violence, this is for you. It has taken me…
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7 Rules For Renegotiating Our Long-Term Relationships — Without A Manual
BY BRIGID HOPKINS I remember starting a new job and being handed a large manual chock full of information on how to be…
Finding The Grace In The Waves Of Growth & Change
BY BRIGID HOPKINS I’m coming down from another expansion hangover. Why do I forget every time how it feels to be in this…
Don’t Live Your Life To Please Others (Come Home To Yourself)
BY BRIGID HOPKINS I’ve heard the suggestion more than once — not to live your life to please others. I can get with…
Uncomfortable Is The New Comfortable & The Heave Out Of The Rut
BY BRIGID HOPKINS The ruts that are worn Come from a sense of comfort Repetition Endurance to live is not living The harder…
I’m Not Obligated To Be The Same Person My Whole Life
BY BRIGID HOPKINS Several variations ago, we were sitting at a greasy-spoon diner, my bestie and me. We were having troubles, not the…
Calling Bullsh*t On The Mask I Use To Hide My Insecurity Of Not Being Good Enough
BY BRIGID HOPKINS Releasing Expectations: The Art Of Receptivity As the summer days shorten, and the cool breezes increase, just as the trees…
To The Woman I Rose To Be Through Love
BY BRIGID HOPKINS I laid down to sleep I wept I wept for the woman I once was She knew so much Did…
As Tears Flood My Eyes & Echoes Of Fear Hang From My Heart
BY BRIGID HOPKINS As tears flood my eyes Dance down my face Its no surprise why they’re here The echoes of fear Hanging…
Stop Banging Your Head: Kill Your Old Beliefs & Choose A Life Undefined By Others
To follow one’s bliss into the great abyss. There’s no thread that can guide you or tick tock that will find you. It asks only for your hand, lift your feet from the sands of anything familiar. Surrender.