I have a close friend who does this. It never fails. My other friends and I will pour our hearts out, spend hours telling her what she should do in her situation, she’ll agree with all of us, and then, more often than not, do the exact opposite. At first it used to irritate me….
Author: Ashley Renee
There is No One Better Than Me for My Ex and Other Lies we Tell Ourselves
Have you ever heard someone going through a breakup exclaim how their ex will never find anyone better than them or how they are the best they will ever find? I personally cringe when I hear it especially when it comes to comparing the new person. I look way better than her. I make more…
The Game of Life and How to Play it
Have you read Florence Scovel Shinn’s, The Game of Life and How to Play it? It popped up as a suggested video on Youtube one day and curiously, I clicked on it. I listened to the full 2 hour audio book and went on to purchase a collection of all of her books and recommended…
He Told Me He Would Kill Himself if I left
I was 17. He was in his early twenties. “He’s cute.” My friend whispered to me one day. I agreed. We had both just started working a new job and were smitten over the new guy. I didn’t know much about him other than that he always wore a hooded sweatshirt and his mom sometimes brought him lunch to work which I thought was cute. We became fast friends.
The Not So Subtle Art of Surviving While Being Black in America
We lose count. We lose count of the black people that are senselessly murdered each year. We try to remember each person’s name before another is added to the list. We march, we cry, we sign petitions. We whisper about how maybe if they had been a little quieter, a little less combative…a little…less…black…maybe…just maybe…
How to Overcome Quarantine Depression
Before Ms. Rona came to town I had been contemplating taking a much needed spiritual and mental retreat away from LA, to my parent’s country lakeside home to clear my head and simply get my life together. I didn’t know how this would work without leaving my job, until the height of the pandemic when…
The Not so Subtle Art of Making Tough Decisions
There’s something about getting simultaneously hit by two trucks that makes you stop and think… what the hell am I doing with my life right now? As I sit here with muscle relaxers and ibuprofen in my system and pain running from my head to my toes and back up to my fingertips as…
Nice to Meet you I’m Karma: What I’m Learning About Karmic Connections/Soul Agreements
Have you ever met someone where instantly everything just felt right? You finished each other’s sentences, knew what the other person was thinking, and never had to argue about what to order for dinner? Those connections seem magical and almost too good to be true, right? Yea, that’s not a karmic connection. Typically with karmic…
Thank U Next: The Subtle Art of Moving On
Lately I’ve been doing something that may or may not result in me going to hell. At least that was what I was taught by relatives growing up, but anywho, eternal damnation aside, I’ve been listening to readings for my horoscope a lot on youtube. I randomly came across it one day and surprisingly in…
The Power of the Tongue The Subtle Art of Speaking Things into Existence
Have you ever said or thought about something then all of a sudden it happened? Maybe you said, I miss this person and moments later they were calling you. Perhaps you said this day couldn’t get any worst and then out of nowhere something drastically worse happened. Did you ever say man I could use…
