My friend Geena always had a deep and insatiable hunger. I used to believe that it was for food. Now I know that it was for life.

It seems all her life, she has struggled with food and feeling “at home” in her body. She has spent what seems like a lifetime trying to satisfy a hunger that never seems to be satisfied.

This expressed itself as an emptiness that she endlessly tried to fill. …

I would love to live an autonomous and fulfilling life. However, sometimes I ask myself the nagging question, “Is this all there is?” According to the experts, this is a clear indication that I’m insulating myself from greatness.

Quite often I hold myself back from achieving this by being unclear about what I want from life. Sometimes I’m afraid of making the necessary changes to my daily existence.

It’s unfortunate that most people don’t know what they want from life. They seem to meander around without a larger life goal. Like a ship without a rudder.

Most sit at a…

We’ve all experienced it. That uncomfortable pause in a conversation or presentation. There is a feeling akin to anxiety as the participants feel like they are under pressure to talk but are not sure what to say next.

I remember once walking with a friend and, while I really enjoyed her company, I secretly wanted her to stop being a chatter box. On the other hand she was just trying to be polite and pleasant by filling up each pause. …

Nancy walked out of her office building on yet another Wednesday evening at 8:30pm feeling guilty because her boss was still buried deep in paperwork at her desk with no signs of preparing to go home for the day. Why was she feeling guilty?

It could have something to do with her boss muttering “leaving already?” at the sight of Nancy gathering her things to leave. Nancy had been at work since 8:30am. And so had her boss. The job description did not include 12-hour work days.

This was getting to be an almost daily occurrence. Nancy worked to live…

What the heck is the ‘Law of Equal Exchange’?

I’ve done a fair amount of reading and researching manifestation and the Law of Attraction. I can certainly say that there is far more to it than ‘ask and you shall receive’. At times, it can feel like really hard work and much more complicated than I bargained for.

The point here is that we each have a certain amount of energy each day and once that energy is used up, we have a hard time getting it back until we sleep — when it is replenished for another day. …

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I started to appreciate forests and the density of old trees living together in such a mysterious way.

They seem to have a ‘larger than life’ presence and give off a sense of peace. There is a protected wisdom that resonates from a group of trees and the inherent power they possess. To think that they not only have the power to stand hundreds of feet high, but to create fire, build homes and provide shelter. …

I’ve mentioned in earlier stories that writing is my lifelong dream and it did, in fact, take nerves of steel and a quarantine for me to submit the first piece for publication on Medium for the first time in April 2020. Inspiration invited me to do this and I grabbed it’s hand like Thelma & Louise and said “yea, let’s do this” and we drove off that cliff together.

From what I’ve read about the experiences of other writers on the Medium platform, I’m slow to get here. …

The 5 W’s are usually used in journalism, research and police investigations. They are a method for obtaining the full story on a particular subject.

I remember being taught a version of the 5 W’s — Who, What, When, Where and Why to be used for writing or research.

When we look at our life story, we can probably identify the 5 W’s in the different phases of our lives. In this perspective, they can be a metaphor for focus, self-discovery and realization.

During our teenage years, our focus is mainly on Who we are, this being a time of…