By: Michelle Whipple May 22, 2022May 23, 2022 Cancer, UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Free, Consciousness, Divorce, featured, Mindfulness, mormon faith, mormon faith transition, Motherhood, Self Trust, Sex, Sex after divorce, SpiritualityLeave a Comment

It takes imagination.

The Nuvaring Before I got married, I went to the student health center for a pre-marriage gynecology appointment. I was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), 20 and a virgin. I didn’t think of myself as prude or naive, but I was probably both of those things. Raised in the conservative Mormon faith, I…

By: Michelle Whipple May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 Creativity, UncategorizedCarl Jung, Elizabeth Gilbert, featured, god, Heavenly Mother, lds, lds faith, Mental Health, Motherhood, Psychology, Self Help, Self Trust, Spirituality1 Comment

Who is Heavenly Mother?

Now that I better understand the feminine divine, I see that, because of her nature, she doesn’t fit easily into organized religion. She is too big and complicated for that. There are no instructions for breathing! How would you teach someone to inhale? Yet, I notice very quickly when I am becoming oxygen-deprived.

By: Michelle Whipple May 2, 2022May 8, 2022 Creativity, Poetry, UncategorizedArt as Medicine, Constant Creative Response, Coparenting, Divorce, featured, Poetry as Medicine1 Comment

Moving on.

Sometimes you get an email on a random Tuesday that’s really a box of venom and darkness. And it’s from someone you can’t block. So you write. Not back to them. But to yourself. Just because you disgust one person, doesn’t mean you are disgusting. You are light. You are fire. Burn, baby. Moving on.…

By: Michelle Whipple January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 Poetryfeatured, Mental Health, New Year, New Year's Resolution, Spirituality, Values, yoga mindset2 Comments

New Year! New You?

New Year! New You? The daylight begins to spread slightly father into the edges of the day. Still, it’s cold. I don’t like how my body looks, How it feels. I don’t like how my brain is moving, Either creeping in a carb-laden haze, Or ping-ponging between things that might lift me from misery: a…

By: Michelle Whipple December 5, 2021 UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Still, Cheryl Strayed, Consciousness, Divorce, featured, Mindfulness, Motherhood, Spirituality, yoga mindsetLeave a Comment

Tis the Damn Season

Do I need to rethink my entire life?… Or is it just the holidays? I found myself texting this to a friend who casually asked me how it was going? Not good. Not good at all. I mean, there are good things happening. But I think I wandered into the holidays a little off kilter.…

By: Michelle Whipple October 17, 2021 Creativity, Travel, UncategorizedAdventure travel, featured, Female solo travel, Female solo traveler, Hawaii, Kauai, Kundalini Yoga, solo travel, Women Solo Travel, Yoga, yoga mindsetLeave a Comment

Kauai is messing with you

This Kauai trip, it’s been interesting. I had the extra burden of writing a book while I’ve been here. That has made the trip decidedly less zen than my typical solo retreat. Also mercury is in retrograde. The Verizon tower was down on the North side of the island for a couple of days, plus…

By: Michelle Whipple August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Creativity, Poetry, Travel, UncategorizedDating, featured, Honesty, Online Dating, Positive Psychology, Yoga, yoga mindset11 Comments

The One Where She Starts Online Dating…Again

I’ve been dating to one extent or another since about 18 months after my ex and I separated. I naively stepped up to the plate thinking that I was basically a good wife and I should be able to find a suitable husband replacement fairly easily. People told me my most difficult job would be…

By: Michelle Whipple July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 UncategorizedActive Imagination, Authenticity, COVID-19, featured, Pandemic, Positive Psychology, Quarantine3 Comments

Covid sucks. Can we turn it off?

In June I found my self saying over and over again, “I just need a minute to myself.” So this last week has been some strange karmic joke or the answer to prayer or maybe just a symbol of how in touch with the universe I really am. Because I got covid. Everyone wants to…

It takes imagination.

By: Michelle Whipple May 22, 2022May 23, 2022

Cancer, UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Free, Consciousness, Divorce, featured, Mindfulness, mormon faith, mormon faith transition, Motherhood, Self Trust, Sex, Sex after divorce, SpiritualityLeave a Comment

Something good :)

By: Michelle Whipple May 19, 2022

Creativity, Poetry, Uncategorizedauspicious, Cheryl Strayed, Mindfulness, Morning Pages, Poetry, Something Good, Spirituality, the artist's way, Tiny Beautiful Things, WritingLeave a Comment

Writing poetry about hard things is easy in a way. But, what about that whisper from inside that says good things are coming? The things you’ve waited for, even silently, as they seemed too big to speak? They are in motion. They are nearly here. All you must do is keeping going. Keep crossing that…

Who is Heavenly Mother?

By: Michelle Whipple May 8, 2022May 8, 2022

Creativity, UncategorizedCarl Jung, Elizabeth Gilbert, featured, god, Heavenly Mother, lds, lds faith, Mental Health, Motherhood, Psychology, Self Help, Self Trust, Spirituality1 Comment

A few things I know.

By: Michelle Whipple May 4, 2022May 1, 2022

Spirituality, UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Alive, Be Free, Be Still, Consciousness, Love, Mindfulness, Self Trust, Spirituality1 Comment

Sometimes when I get quiet here it’s because I feel like I don’t know anything. Nothing. And that’s not completely true. So here’s a list of a few things I do know. I know if you are looking for sea glass on the beach, the best place to find it is in the patches of…

Moving on.

By: Michelle Whipple May 2, 2022May 8, 2022

Creativity, Poetry, UncategorizedArt as Medicine, Constant Creative Response, Coparenting, Divorce, featured, Poetry as Medicine1 Comment

A new direction

By: Michelle Whipple May 1, 2022May 19, 2022

Creativity, UncategorizedPoetry, WritingLeave a Comment

I’ve been mulling it over and I’ve decided to take a slightly new direction in this space. You can still expect essays but I’m going to put a little more emphasis on poetry and art and creativity in general. And joy in the midst of life that’s always shifting and challenging and sometimes just shitty.…

Seventy

By: Michelle Whipple April 3, 2022

Spirituality, UncategorizedBirthday, Dad, Family, Father, Love, Milestones, Self Trust, Spirituality, TrustLeave a Comment

I talked to my dad twice yesterday because it was his 70th birthday, and I couldn’t be there to make him a chocolate sheet cake and spell out 7-0 with candles (because 70 candles would poke too many holes in that delicious frosting!) But that’s probably why I woke up this morning thinking about him.…

New Year! New You?

By: Michelle Whipple January 9, 2022January 9, 2022

Poetryfeatured, Mental Health, New Year, New Year's Resolution, Spirituality, Values, yoga mindset2 Comments

Tis the Damn Season

By: Michelle Whipple December 5, 2021

UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Still, Cheryl Strayed, Consciousness, Divorce, featured, Mindfulness, Motherhood, Spirituality, yoga mindsetLeave a Comment

Meditation: The Mad-Morning Problem

By: Michelle Whipple October 31, 2021

Uncategorizedboy mom, Divorced parent, meditation, Mindfulness, Motherhood, yoga mindset1 Comment

I used to write a lot about meditative practice and it can look many different ways. Walking, yoga, transcendental meditation, washing the dishes, taking a bath—these are all meditative practices I have leaned on heavily to get through these past few years. I was facing my own dark night of the soul. I like Mark…