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Welcome to Field & Flowers. Est 2026. Here you will find my writing on identity, healing, and becoming with the support of plant wisdom. Informed by lived experience, being a flower oracle, breaking the cycle, chronic illness, long-term sobriety, heartbreak after 40, and spiritual practice.
I Didn't Disappear...
To everyone who ever wondered where I went... There is something bittersweet about this one. I still have guilt attached to a story...
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May 27, 2019
Healing In Action: A Race Joke
A vulnerable share about a race joke and healing in action. Last night someone close to me made a comment about the color of something I...
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May 16, 2019
Marco Polo has singlehandedly saved my relationship.
Well, not singlehandedly. But it’s been a powerful tool for healing and connection in my relationship. The scene: I’m upset and feeling...
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May 15, 2019
The Rebirth of the Party Girl
The time between when I first had the thought that maybe I wanted to change my relationship to alcohol and when I finally had my last...
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May 9, 2019
"I Don't Ever Want to Be Madly In Love Again...
...I want to be healthy in love, sanely in love, peacefully in love." I’m not afraid to admit I’ve been madly in love before. I used to...
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May 2, 2019
Cleaning House
We all need a good physical and emotional/spiritual house cleaning from time to time.... Cleaning house. What is it? It’s looking...
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Apr 18, 2019
Healing In Action: Public Speaking
Standing up in a room full of people is on my list of fears in life. When I was nine I began reading as lector in church. It was my...
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Apr 15, 2019
The Food/Healing Connection
I stopped eating meat a few weeks ago. I feel amazing inside and out. Now, I want to be clear. This is not a self-righteous post about...
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Apr 12, 2019
Accessing desire. The struggle is real.
I went into a store a few months ago to buy make up and the woman helping me looked at my eyebrows in horror and said they were over...
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Dec 7, 2018
What I Learned About Love in 15 Years of Heavy Drinking
Summer 2015 (Journal Entry about Mike) “This has been such a different breakup. Now three weeks. I'm wishing I could just fast forward time. This feeling is familiar. I want to be out of this experience right now. I feel jealousy and pain remembering how he said he hasn't thought much about it. That he might and then he thinks about something else. I feel so small and worthless right now. Angry with myself for being so available and loving toward him. I wanted it so badly. I
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Nov 21, 2018
Love Your Soul
When I began my healing journey I had many big tasks ahead of me. One of them was getting to know and love my soul. At the time I already had a good understanding of mind and body. I used those very well to my advantage and sometimes to my disadvantage. But now there was this part of myself, my soul, that felt very far away. I had pain and my conception of soul was that it was something (someone) I could access when I was happy and things were going well. But that wasn’t th
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Oct 26, 2018
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