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Tag: spiritual adulting

Abstract art titled "The chalice of my unhappiness was forged by kings"
Family

Good Morning Letter

Dear Younger One, Your mom asked me to write. She said you were doing pretty well. I’m glad. I also heard you are afraid of growing up. Turning…

July 31, 2025August 1, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

The day you realize

In the past few years, I found myself saying lightheartedly, “you know, I am the center of my own universe. So are you. No one can be anything…

May 20, 2025May 21, 2025 · 8 min read

Body & Health

Shortcut to Autopilot

A few times in my life, I discovered a tool so powerful, that it’s use alone was enough to reach a goal. From about 15 on, all I’ve…

October 7, 2023October 26, 2023 · 4 min read

Culture

Voting to pay taxes in ashes?

I’m calling out those who wield destructive energy, calling to “burn down” the government. (If talking money is the only way to get your attention- so be it.)…

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 · 6 min read

Body & Health

Survival is a fast car

On a recent talk the speaker asked her audience how many were “in survival mode.” One quarter of the hands went up.* I found this revelatory, not because…

July 7, 2023August 10, 2023 · 4 min read

Culture

Beyond Belief

I don’t go to church, my kids don’t either. The other day I realized that even though I don’t engage with organized religion anymore, that there are many…

March 18, 2022 · 3 min read

Family

What I know (a letter of witchy wisdom to my kid)

So, you don’t seem to be interested in what I have to say. And that’s natural. And that is you becoming you, so it’s fine. But your mom…

November 28, 2021June 3, 2022 · 4 min read

Family

The low road

Walking with my son in the “fairy woods,” we came to an intersection in the trail we’d come to many times before. “Which way should we go?” he…

October 9, 2021June 2, 2023 · 3 min read

You are Here
Mommess

Yup, Q, It’s True

When the Alt-right and Q followers obsess on pedophilia, its because in a very real way, it is true. The child-like minds of many Trumpians are being mentally…

November 19, 2020June 3, 2022 · 2 min read

Best of Mommess

Spiritual Adulting: Part 1. I’m an American bigot. Ugh.

[new subtitle added in Nov 2024]: searching for one’s dog This morning I looked in the spiritual mirror and realized I was a bigot. Not a blowhard, Nazi…

June 18, 2018May 21, 2025 · 4 min read

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