Frozen Nowhere

2007 was a year of FREEDOM — freedom from abuse, freedom from my husband, freedom from a toxic work environment, and freedom from former expectations of who I was.

2008 was a year of HEALING — healing from the abuse, healing from financial turmoil, healing from fear, healing anxiety, and healing my soul.

2009 has been a year of GROWTH — growing more financially stable, moving towards goals, growing as a family of 3 instead of 4(as with x) or 5 (when we lived with my parents), growing more comfortable with who I am now, and moving upwards and onwards

This year has been about change and movement forward. It has been about getting back out there, getting back writing,…

Christmas with my family was… well… the same as always and best left undiscussed.

This year has been… interesting to say the least… but that’s  another post for another day.

One goal I had set for myself a few years ago was to clean up my financial situation — get out of debt and get a home of my own rather than stay living in rental places forever. It always seemed like one step forward and two steps back — I would get one thing under control and then I would slip in another area…

It often seemed that no matter what I tried, I couldn’t figure it all out. I had family pressuring me to do things and theEx…

Inevitably sometime around this time of year SOMEONE asks me what I might want for “Christmas”*… and I always draw a blank.
 
I’m 35 years old now. No one gives me gifts (for the most part) anymore… I don’t have a husband to give me presents, and my family has pretty much decided that anything I want I can damned well buy myself. So I don’t usually get gifts anymore…
 
When I was younger I used to always have a list of things that I wanted, from the small things like boxes of paperclips (I was always an odd child) to grander things (like adventures) it was an ongoingly updated jumble in the back of whatever journal I

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Okay… I admit it, I have been a bit quiet this week.
 
Uncharacteristically quiet, even for me…
 
There are a few reasons for this
 

1. I am working modified hours because of issue with before and after school care of my kids.
2. I still have about a billion things to do for Yule, never mind Christmas…
3. Work is kicking my hiney…

 
But none of those things have gotten me quite as distracted as the BIG FAT NEWS item…
 
And no, i’m not gonna tell you about it quiet YET (laugh) first

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I read a LOT of blogs…
 
Because, I do. A LOT of them. I think I’m subscribed to about 300 right now.
 
The highest percentage of blogs that I read would likely fall under the category of life coaching/creative living blogs.
 
Some of them give me great ideas that I can transfer to other areas of my life. Some give me ideas to start creating things myself, to journal or draw or doodle or write. And some give me HOPE that things aren’t so bad.
 
But there are sometimes when I read these things and I wonder if the whole purpose of the “Life Coach” industry isn’t to create MORE life coaches, rather than to really

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