This past weekend was horrible. I had things I wanted to do but I didn't get any of it done... Friday I went to work and took a picture...

Edit: I had taken this down because I was unsure whether I really should post it but decided to repost it in its rawness...

Jesus, can I come home? I'm so tired. I just want to be free. Free from it all... And I want a hug. A big one. A long one. A comforting one.

*If you would like a print of this piece it is available for sale on my website under the Painful Paintings tab... (I wrote this piece a...

Graduating from school at 8th grade, the future looked extremely dark. All I could see was that there would now be no escape from my parents

And I keep hearing my dad's voice "It's just all in your head!" A phrase I often heard when I wasn't feeling well....

Pretty gruesome, isn't it? I don't know what color pain is but I know how it feels. It is heavy. It hurts. Sometimes...

Where does this pressure come from? From people's good intentions. Friends implying their opinions. My own internal dialogue from...

Aggression dressed up in a pretty package is like poison in a relationship. We may be unaware of our passive aggression but we are still...

When you trust someone and they "flip" on you as in saying one thing and then changing it later it undermines and cripples your trust...

Today is one of those days that are really out of sorts. It could be triggered by any number of things. Two of the culprits may be the...

This kinda depicts my feelings of today...moving out of state and some of the things that happened leading up to it and after make me...

Tonight I was on my way home from horse therapy and since I'm now living at my friend's house I decided to find a closer way home than I...

On my mind tonight.... Sometimes...well, often, I find myself being so hard on myself for being so scared of the lady downstairs. Like, I...

These words have been running through my being since my (exhausting)therapy session last night... Little girls (children) don't deserve...

What do you do when you get a phone call from someone who treated you horribly? I don't answer. I let it go to voice mail. I listened to...

"Our sparkly points aren't made to be cut off. They make up who we are. "

(I wrote this, not to shame those who I may be talking about, but rather to portray as best I can the inner struggles that are caused by...

I never dreamed I'd stop going to church. Ever since I began to grow in my relationship with Jesus I wanted to know the truth and I...