Shellyville Continues (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1827046 Hello my Sunny Friends, I am reminded that so much of who I am is in the words that I speak. Mostly the words I whisper to myself. I love you, you are good enough! I am so grateful for my career. I love that I can use my passion for words and that I can twist, spin and redirect the negative I hear in others. Sometimes it is exhausting to see the pain that everyone carries. I get overwhelmed by the lack of insight and care we take with ourselves. Thousands...[Read Full Post] Thu, 15 May 2025 11:28:06 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1089367 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1089367 Hello Sunshine, Oh how I love the month of May. My favorite flower blooms and I go hunting for them. They are Lilly of the Valleys. Those sweet bells that charm me. I don't know why I love that flower so much but I do. My ex called them weeds. Maybe that made me love them more. I am a rebel at times. I feel reckless and want to run. I am not a runner, not now, not ever. All I can do is dream of a yard full of little white bells! May be that i...[Read Full Post] Fri, 02 May 2025 11:12:18 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1088513 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1088513 Hello my sunny pals, Welcome to a new month. I am excited that today is finally here. I needed to put March behind me and move the f on! It's time to get back to some kind of normal behavior and expectations. Not the anxiety driven insanity that I have been experiencing. It is so exhausting having anxiety. I dealt with it years ago and now it's back, stronger than ever. It is the kind that I can feel in my bones, starts with a rapid heart beat, a ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:49:01 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1086358 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1086358 Hello Friends, It has been a long week! Lots of situations in the office that I could not have predicted and did not want to deal with. I love my career and I am damn good at it but people can be extremely exhausting. I am at that level of burn out and anxiety that has to be addressed. I am not well and I know it. I have been gone for a long time so you don't know what I have been dealing with. Last year stretched me in ways I am still trying to figur...[Read Full Post] Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:59:45 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1086091 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1086091 Hello Sunshine, You are smiling today! Blue sky, yellow sun and cold temps. Yup it's a Michigan spring. Normally gray for most of it but today the sun has decided to peak out and it makes all the difference. Bright sunshine is what I normally crave. I honestly don't understand why I live here anymore. I can live anywhere and yet I stay here. Maybe someday I will move but I kinda doubt it. It seems as if life is telling me this is where I do belong. F...[Read Full Post] Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:01:41 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085976 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085976 Hello Sunshine, Is it possible at my age to create a new dream? Or maybe it is time to realize that dreams can come and go at any age. I love that idea. All I know is that for a couple years now I have been restless in my soul. It was something missing. I have been so preoccupied with business and being a good therapist. I forgot about what I needed. It's time to go back. This time for all the right reasons. I am ready to explore what is left unsaid i...[Read Full Post] Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:34:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085796 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085796 When the past returns... What is that all about and why? Why doesn't my mind recognize the game of it all? I have nothing in my past that can haunt me anymore. I have faced every inch of it. I tore apart every hidden clue and I still can't understand it. A book out of print for 10 years. A man out of my life for 40. A twin dead for a year. It's all over. Last year kicked my ass and yet I survived it. I made peace with the enemy of my emotions...[Read Full Post] Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:23:11 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085733 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085733 Hello Sunshine, Today, I am content. Today, I made a decision to visit my old home. I sat in the backyard and looked around. Familiar and distant. Ever visit a place and feel lost? So far removed that you wonder if you ever belonged? Only you know you did. You have memories pinned on your heart. You have scents that linger and shadows that still move. The backyard that I walked away from. The flowers still bloom. The sun still whispers through the branche...[Read Full Post] Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:52:26 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/966653 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/966653 Hello my sunny pals, I am waiting for the sun to shine behind the rain clouds. I am waiting for a warm spring day to arrive. It will some day, but probably not today. I can always wish and dream. Something, I have always been good at is my ability to dream. To wish and hope and dream the best. I am lost in the life I am trying to accomplish. I am lost in daily activities of being an adult. I miss the sweetness of my imagination and words of poetry. I miss...[Read Full Post] Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:55:25 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956411 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956411 Hello Sunshine, I can't believe how much my life has changed in 12 years! Honestly, I don't even recognize myself at times. I was so broken when I started my journey here. I was and will always be grateful to every single writers soul that reached out to me and lifted me up. I made relationships that still linger and live in my heart. I published a book of poetry. I concurred a mental illness. I ended a 23 year marriage. I earned a Master'...[Read Full Post] Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:55:18 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/951386 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/951386 Hello Sunshine, I can't believe I made it outside of my house today. I had no intention of working in this cold weather but none of my clients canceled. Ugh. This being an adult is hard work!! I spent the day yesterday being a complete bum and I loved every minute of it. I baked cookies, cleaned out some crafts and binged watched TV. It was perfect. Now I am back in my office and ready to tackle the hard stuff. Life and people are so interesting. I ca...[Read Full Post] Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:51:41 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950828 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950828 Hello Sunshine, A long time coming...but here I am! Back from the brink of insanity, back from being lost an an island of doubt. I made it out of the backyard. I made it out of the sand pit. I made it into the sunshine. I am getting back in touch with my writing soul. I need her. She hasn't been completely gone only writing on paper in a big journal. Lost from the public eye. I want to express her energy and get inspired. I need to feel something n...[Read Full Post] Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:27:15 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950701 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950701 Hello Sunshine, I keep dreaming. I keep hoping on a prayer. I want so much to believe that everything is going to be okay. I do believe in the fairy tale. I want to get back to my romantic soul. I want to find a lover that will burn my heart and bed. I am bored with what is and want what will be next. I am looking but actually I am not searching that hard. I keep thinking if he is meant to find me, he will. I know it. I can feel it in my bones. I have ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:33:03 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/874119 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/874119 Hello Sunshine, It's been an amazing 9 year journey. When I look back and remember my first day here I was so amazed at the amount of creative words on my screen. I was searching for a place to land. I needed a creative outlet for my worries. I needed to express my deepest heart. I needed to escape my own reality. I have traveled a land of make-believe. I became a writer again. I wrote poetry from the most beautiful part of my soul. I met friends and lov...[Read Full Post] Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:29:10 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/872994 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/872994 Hello Sunshine, I am sitting in my office. Okay not really MY office but the place I will work from all day. If I could change this room I would. I would paint the walls. I would add some color. I would bring life into the place. By the end of the day I will be fried. Something about the generic walls and brown couches drive me crazy. I can't even explain how boring this office is. I need color and light. I am struggling to for radical acceptance tod...[Read Full Post] Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:43:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/860106 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/860106 Hello my sunny pals, It's been a long summer! I thought I would get back to writing everyday but that didn't happen. "He" didn't happen either. He couldn't be the man I needed him to be. In fact, he couldn't even be half the man I needed him to be. I do so love my heart. It has unlimited amount of space not being used. Back on the dating sites I go. I sit and wonder why and yet I know why. I know that I was not meant to be alone. ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:23:31 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/860013 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/860013 Hello Sunshine, I just did the coolest thing! My neighbor Chris asked me to help him light some lanterns for his son's 6 birthday. I wasn't sure what he meant but I said yes. It turns out that every year he lights a paper lantern and they send wishes into the night sky. I absolutely loved it! It was beyond cool to see them fly into the night sky all aglow. I love the simple things and yes I am easily amused!! Love, Michelle...[Read Full Post] Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:30:59 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/857612 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/857612 Hello Sunshine, In the middle of my mind is a tragic truth. I am not as innocent as I pretend to be. I am not without faults. I have lived through so many of them. Only the truth is I have something to hide. I hide the truth of my unending love for him. I try so hard to ignore it. I fill up my days with activities and my nights with mindless nonsense. All to escape the reality of a haunting love that scares the shit out of me. It's a chemistry connec...[Read Full Post] Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:44:52 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/857366 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/857366 Hello Sunshine, How can another work week be over? I love the weekends! It's hard to believe another 7 days have gone by and my kids head back to Dad's today. How come as they get older and I see them less, I miss them more? I used to spend so much time playing and talking. Now we just sit around and look at each other. I want to take them on a vacation before they go back to school. Only my funds are very tight so I need to do some research on how t...[Read Full Post] Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:40:02 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/856717 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/856717 Hello Sunshine, I have been waking up under a heavy blanket of depression. It's not my normal feeling and I really don't like it. I feel heavy and slow. I wonder where my energy has gone and what is weighing me down? I don't get it. My diet is not that great, so I wonder if that has something to do with this. I also think it is about my current lifestyle. Work and no play is making me crazy. I am struggling with balance. However, I don't feel...[Read Full Post] Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:55:00 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/856647 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/856647