Micki's Musings

The wisdom of true friends. When I look back on my experience, I won't be as proud of the experience if I stay. There are aspects of the old me that are still clinging on and this represents that. This is taking up space in my life that could be taken by someone else or other things that are more ready and available to me. It's a life jacket I don't really need, and I'm not building the muscles and skills I could develop by taking it off. It was training wheels that helped a lot, but now it's time to let them go if they are not willing to grow with me. Instead of missing what I could lose, look at all I can gain. Make space and don't allow it to be taken by things that don't need to be there anymore. Pay attention to my speech and body when I am in a space and how it feels. That will show me truth.  Time to stop tolerating the punches.

I'm still afraid. I'm writing a book about how fear has become my compass, but it doesn't have an ending. I'm still afraid and still lost. I wanted to know what was next for me after this by now. I've been in a beautiful place doing beautiful things and healing in beautiful ways, but I'm still afraid. What is it trying to show me? I'm afraid to stay AND I'm afraid to go. I'm afraid to try to find a job that will trap me in one place and I'm afraid to create something I will be entirely in control of. Success or failure are equally terrifying and equally as relevant and possible in my current situation. I thought I found the perfect job for me but I didn't get it. I thought I had a good game plan but it doesn't feel like enough. How do I exist for just myself? I hear "help those most vulnerable" but how? I don't want to be trapped. I want to keep running. I'm afraid of creating anything real because it will go away. If I...

One year ago, I was on a tropical island surrounded by the people I loved. This year, I'm on a different tropical island, and I'm celebrating the new year alone. It should be sad, and it is, just a little bit. I'm still healing some, but it's more of a growing pains ache than a feeling of loss.  This time last year, I thought I was gaining a whole new family and a whole new life. Instead, I am by myself now more than I ever have been before. There is a melancholy about it for sure, but also, a peace. I feel gratitude more than anything else during this moment. I'm grateful I am not trapped in a relationship that is not healthy for me. I'm grateful my children are growing into such extraordinary humans. I'm grateful for the health and vitality I have physically and emotionally and spiritually. I'm grateful for the amazing people in my life who love me and want me to be happy. I'm grateful for adventure and new things and new places and new experiences...

Twenty-four has been one of my favorite numbers my whole life. I like the evenness of it, the way it multiplies and divides so tidily into so many other nice and tidy whole numbers. It's 2 and 6 and 8 and 4 and 3 and 12, and it's the day of the month I was born. In 2023, I decided 2024 would be the best year yet, and I started creating a world for myself where that could come true. When I got engaged on January 1st, it felt like the perfect beginning to the perfect year, and the first couple of months held a lot of promise.  Then the promises shattered and one thing after another after another threw my life into chaos and my heart into pieces. I never imagined how difficult this year would be in so many different ways. Now, we are at the end of my favorite number year, and I realize I was right. This has been the very best year of my life so far. I have grown this year more than any other five years combined. I have proven to myself that all the work I have done has not been fo...

If you give a girl a plane ticket to Hawaii, she'll want to go scuba diving. If you take her scuba diving, she will fall in love with the island. If she falls in love with the island, she will want to move there. If she moves there, she will want her dream job of working in a hut by the ocean and on the boats and in the water. If she gets her dream job of working in a hut by the ocean and on the boats and in the water, she will also need a place to stay. If she gets a place to stay, she will want it to be in a place where she can see the ocean and beautiful sunrises and sunsets. If she gets a place to stay on a beautiful island with ocean and sunrise and sunset views, she will want to explore and meet people and make friends and see everything and do everything. If she is living on a beautiful island and seeing everything and doing everything and living her dreams, she might be so full of joy she won't be able to contain it and she will feel like she is going to burst into tril...

I play a silly game when I get hurt. We all play it. I play a game where I pretend I am the victim and there is everything wrong with the person who hurt me. I play that game on the outside because the reality hurts too much at first. After I have some time to process, after I take some time to see what's real, I face my true pain inside of myself.  I went to the temple praying for healing and peace. I sat throught the endowment session trying to focus on the beauty of the ordinance, but my mind was swirling with how I had been wronged. I asked for help to cleanse my spirit of the energy, but I hadn't yet released my grip on my victimhood. I got to the last part of the session and opened my heart even more. I always feel a cleansing there. I feel something transforming me in ways I don't comprehend. I don't understand it, but I open myself to it anyway and allow it to flood my soul and heal and empower me. I stood there sobbing as He spoke to the part of me I thought I ...