Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

How to Feel Loved When You Are Alone

Photo Credit: Lovely Day Pittsburgh
Makeup: Hope Star Makeup
People are alone for many reasons. People are single because of a break-up, a death, a divorce, or simply because they have chosen to be alone for the time being. Some people are celebrating their single-dom and some people are wallowing, while others are kind of indifferent. Often times though, when you're newly single, for whatever reason - it can feel like the entire world is partnered up and you are at home watching Gilmore Girls, talking to your dog, and eating take-out in the same sweat pants you've worn for 3 days (not that I'm um, talking from experience or anything). Some days being alone is awesome - hello to not sharing the covers, eating whatever you want, doing whatever you want, listening to whatever you want, not putting away your laundry immediately, etc - but sometimes it's just plain overwhelming. Some days it feels like your someone doesn't exist and all you really want is your someone - someone to tell your day to that isn't your Mom or you dog, someone to cry to when you don't want to be strong, someone to cook when you're too tired, someone to steal the covers, someone to make you laugh, someone to sit across the table from, someone to tell you that you are loved.  What do you do though, with that time in between, when your person hasn't arrived and you're sick of wallowing, tired of waiting?

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Why YOU Need a Thunder Shirt






After my ex-husband left our marriage, I was forced to move into my parent's basement with little left to my name except 2 suitcases full of clothes. I slept in my sister's bed and my two cats and one dog, all slept in that room too. We had very little, but we were safe. At the time, the thought of just opening my suitcase to pick out something to wear induced tears - big tears - the kind that splash when they meet a surface, and there was really no telling when they'd end. Every piece of clothing reminded me of my old life, so I took to wearing my sister's sweatpants around the house most days, and buying a piece of clothing here and there if I really needed it. That's how I found my Thunder Shirt.