Redefining Love Archives

But love should be easy, right?

Posted on August 26, 2019December 15, 2020 by Redefining Love

When you set boundaries with someone, both people grow.

When I say love isn’t supposed to always be warm and fuzzy, what do I mean? Before I can answer this question, I have to explain what love is not. Love Is Not… Cruel.Abusive.Manipulative.Lying. Love may not always be warm and fuzzy, but it is decidedly none of the above things. But does love hurt? Can our love actually hurt someone? Can someone we love hu...

The death of grace

Posted on August 19, 2019December 15, 2020 by Redefining Love

As my kids gear up for back to school, I can’t help but wonder how they will look back at their childhoods, the time and place in which they were raised, their family experience, and the impact their culture has on their growing hearts and minds. How did we get here? I can’t pretend to be perfect. I actually tried that for a really long time. It didn’t work. Her...

Do you have a toxic relationship with your news source?

Posted on August 6, 2019June 24, 2021 by Redefining Love

Do you have a toxic relationships with your news source?

In order to understand the big picture of Redefining Love, we must learn that institutions can be just as toxic as individual relationships. Just as family systems can be rife with dysfunction that developed over generations, so too can larger systems within our society. Entire religions, governments, political parties, corporations, education institutions, and sectors...

Welcome To My World

Posted on March 25, 2018November 15, 2019 by Redefining Love

I have redefined love, and in turn love has redefined me.

One woman's journey to Redefine Love Love is, in many ways, still a raw, open wound for me. It has taken years for me to build up the courage to lay all of this out like this, for the world to see. I wish redefined love was an instant fix. I wish it just happened one day, with the snap of the fingers, the flip of a switch. But that’s not how it works. Like anything worth doi...