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Tips For Trusting The Process
April Sweazy, March 16, 2012
"Come forth and bring with you a heart that watches and receives." - William Wordsworth
It isn’t always easy to trust the process. I can say that with a sense of intimate knowing because I spent the last year trusting the process. Not always knowing exactly what that meant or what the process even was. Making decisions that few people understood or agreed with. Uprooting my entire life, twice, in less than a year, because it felt right, because I knew somewhere deep in the core of my being that I was walking a destined path. If only I would trust the process.
Read More...Domestic Violence: It's Closer Than You Think
April Sweazy, January 9, 2012
Somewhere right this minute a 5 year old is hiding under their bed with their ears covered, humming quietly to drown out the sound of their parents screaming at each other down the hall.
Somewhere right this minute a 10 year old is sitting alone in a dark treehouse, hoping to hide from the anger of a drunken parent who always turns their anger on the only person in the house small enough to not be able to fight back.
Read More...How To Meet Yourself Where You're At
April Sweazy, October 5, 2011
The other morning I woke up with the uncontrollable urge to make art in some form or fashion. It didn’t much matter to me what that art was or wasn’t. And it also didn’t matter to me that I have no art history at all. I don’t hold a fine art degree or have some extensive list of various art workshops that I’ve taken. All I have is a folder full of pencil sketches that I have done at random intervals over the years and a sudden yearning to create. Lately it seems that I have been more interested in wielding a paint brush dripping with color and attacking any surface in sight (including my bedroom walls) to fulfill my creative needs than doing just about anything else.
Read More...To Battered Women Everywhere - Just Go Get A Pedicure???
April Sweazy, August 8, 2011
In response to the Obama Administration’s decision to have insurance companies cover the costs of counseling for battered women, (and other benefits), Fox News contributor Sandy Rios made the following statement:
“Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?” (Read more here and here.)
Read More...Consider The Acorn: Change, Potential, and the Ability To Receive
April Sweazy, June 3, 2011
Something big is afoot. I’ve been saying it all year. The minute 2011 trumpeted its way in, I knew. I could just feel it. Change was in the air.
And I was not happy about it.
So I crossed my arms and shook my head and said, “Sorry Change, go knock on someone else's door, I’m not having it,” and closed the door on Change to continue with my comfortable -- and safe -- little routine. Meanwhile, Change pitched a tent out in my front yard and taunted me from a distance. I would peer at it through the curtains, but refused to engage it in any way -- and we danced around each other in this manner for quite awhile.
Then I made my mistake (which actually wasn’t a mistake at all).
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