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Poem A Day: Week 1

By: Michelle Whipple April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

Creativity, Poetry, UncategorizedCreativity, PoetryLeave a Comment

April is National Poetry Month and I’ve been writing a pome a day for the #amykaypoemaday challenge. It’s been really fun! Here’s what I’ve got from week one. If you feel inspired, follow @amykaypoetry on Instagram and you can see the prompts every day. This challenge is completely about participation points. You get points for…

What if I decided I was safe?

By: Michelle Whipple March 21, 2021March 21, 2021

Travel, Uncategorizedfeatured, Female solo travel, Feminist, girls just want to feel safe, safe travel, solo travel, Travel, violence against womenLeave a Comment

When I was first married, I lived in a laundromat. I say it that way because the apartment was actually IN the building of the laundromat, but I wasn’t sleeping on washing machines at night. During my short time there, I encountered a man who used the bathroom sink every morning to bathe and then…

A Well-Tended Muse

By: Michelle Whipple March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

Creativity, UncategorizedCreativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, featured, Jungian Psychology, Muse, music, play, Positive Psychology, Writing2 Comments

When there are too many things for the hours in the day, call upon a well-tended muse.

Be.

By: Michelle Whipple March 6, 2021March 7, 2021

Poetry, UncategorizedCreativity, Ease, featured, Nature, Poetry, Self TrustLeave a Comment

Rest in cool water. Dance in flame. Lick up morsels lobbed onto my plate. I was born in ease, In the universe, In myself. Hung the world round my neck, Its weight pulling nearer, nearer to the floor. Stop that. Let it clatter on the floorboards. Skip into the mud forest. Find a shelf fungus,…

Hello, Righteous Rant

By: Michelle Whipple February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Mental Health, Travel, UncategorizedConsciousness, featured, Getaway, Maui, Mental Health, Positive Psychology, TravelLeave a Comment

Learning to be conscious through a travel delay in a pandemic year, while mercury is in retrograde.

Happiness: The Basics

By: Michelle Whipple November 15, 2020February 19, 2021

Mental Health, Spirituality, Uncategorizedfeatured, happiness, Kundalini Yoga, Memoir, Mindfulness, Personal Narrative, Positive Psychology, YogaLeave a Comment

You know, Michelle’s not happy. A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who recently went through divorce. She mentioned that in the course of her separation process, someone we both know, pointed to me and my situation and said THAT. First, WTF. How does someone in another state who I talk to…

Conversion

By: Michelle Whipple November 1, 2020February 19, 2021

Spirituality, Uncategorized90s, confidence, faith, featured, Positive Psychology, SpiritualityLeave a Comment

I was thinking about the boom box at Baskin Robbins the other day. The tinny sound of Mix 105.5 floating over the trickle of water through the scoop basins and the chorus hum of freezers. I can’t hear a Billy Idol song without thinking of that boom box (was every night 80s night?). Natalie Imbruglia,…

Boyfriends

By: Michelle Whipple October 4, 2020February 19, 2021

Spirituality, Uncategorizedbreakups, featured, relationships, SpiritualityLeave a Comment

A year ago this month, my then-boyfriend of four or five months abruptly broke up with me with little explanation. And he did it in sort of an angry way, four days after my grandpa passed away. I went to the funeral devastated. I went to work. I took my son to swimming lessons. I…