I remember the feeling of waking up in my grandmother’s orchard house as a child. The fragrance of coffee and breakfast exciting the air. The hum of grown up voices in kitchens and living rooms. The song of their laughter. The...
Tigers
Here’s the thing…if you’re going to have a LTR, that means long term relationship, some shit is going to down, one day, sometime. And if you haven’t got the pre-training, the pre-set, the pro-tips that that help you establish a...
The Big D
Through her veil the room is softened, the lilies dusted eyelet white. Candles glimmer, expectant faces embrace her. She is captured in sepia, ethereal and soft, gliding toward him lifted by wings. He waits, solemn, her soldier....
Gratitude Platitude Pudding and Pie
As a culture, and maybe a world wide one, we have been over saturated with the concept of gratitude in recent years. Tales of how so and so lost everything in the crash or the fire or the flood, and then he got diagnosed with...
Can’t Buy Me
Today, if you are willing to entertain me, I am going to teach you how to go on a date with money. This will serve nicely if you are alone in your house right now, but happen to have a twenty in your wallet. JK. It’s...
Champain Moments
January. January. January. A time to restore our energy from the craziness of holidays. To reflect and rest and recuperate. Dial down our expectations. Create some emotional space for the seeds of newness to form *spins and...
To Do or Not to Do
When I was say 37 years old the other day I was rummaging through some keepsakes and found a teeny tiny fairy journal that I had written in at age 11. In addition to a memorandum of well executed and indicting arguments as to...
Love Hangover
Roses and chocolates and cards dripping with sugary declarations of affection. Starry-eyed dreams of someone to love and be loved by. Candle lit conversations, getting caught in the rain while drinking pina coladas and not being...
Avoidance Survival Guide
I recently wrote to you about avoidance; how and why it’s hard for us to talk about hard things in our relationships — for some of us chronically hard, and what we can do to make it easier to just say the thing (hint if you are...
Kings, Queens, and In-betweens
His cape flies in the wind and dust, hooves thundering over the gritty earth beneath the dark of a waned moon. He finds her tethered to a tree, gown torn, her tresses tousled, a wildness to her delicate beauty that charges his...
We Are the Champions
Let me tell you about the secret sauce to relationship bliss. I mean to taking your relationship from good, or dreamy, or manageable, or up and down to next level. Championship. What is that, pray tell Erin? Championship is for...
Trust is a Complicated Affair
This past week I have been having so many conversations with you about trust, in the spirit of which I am reposting this gem. Know that you are in my heart. I’m not sure what you’ll be doing all week, but I will be talking to...