This is the blog I almost didn’t write. I am heartbroken for my city, for my friends of color, for my friends in one of the greatest police departments in the nation, for us all. Thursday, July 7, 2016 has […]
Darlene Ellison
If These Walls Could Talk: An Open Letter to My Home of 22 Years
In my years as a counselor, I often used writing letters as a part of my clients’ therapeutic process. These were not letters where punctuation, spelling or proper use of “there, their and they’re” mattered. These letters written from pain, […]
Someone Turn That Noise Down!
I don’t like really loud noises. Of course, my former DJ husband after years of loud club speakers blaring in his ears, tends to like everything a bit louder than I prefer. He has decided that his hearing is fine […]
I’ll Have a Cup of Resilience to Go With My Pie!
If I ask you, “how’s life?” what would your answer be today, right now, in this moment? For 99.9% of you, even if the answer has a positive spin to it, there is a “but” or condition. I get it. […]
The Healing Power of Packing…My Relationship With Boxes
21 years. That is how long I have lived in this house. That is how much “stuff” I have accumulated. I have never really taken stock of that “stuff” until it was time to move, to begin again, to start […]
Are YOU a Happy Chewbacca?
As you know by now, I tend to try not to think too hard about “what I should write about” each week, but rather, I let life happen and try to stay in tune to those happenings around me. But […]
Graduation…New Starts & Big Dreams
My social media pages have been inundated with loads of friends’ pictures from their kids’ kindergarten, 8th grade, high school, college or post-graduate graduations this past week – and I love every minute of it! I also had the opportunity […]
That Moment When Mortality Came Crashing In
I know what you’re thinking. “Today is Mother’s Day and she is going to talk about mortality???” I can just hear my own Mom gasping as she reads this! The truth is I fully planned on writing my ode to […]
Let Me Tell You a Little Story…
A year and a half ago, while going thru a short “therapeutic reboot” in my life, I read Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection. A second time. Funny how a different chronological age (45 vs almost 50) and a different […]
What’s Your WHY?
About 2 weeks ago, our India Hicks Senior Director, Lyssa, asked us all to respond to a simple question, “What’s your WHY” when it comes to starting our own India Hicks business this year? I didn’t really give it much […]