by Dionne Thomson | May 10, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
Sometimes I can’t believe that I have made it here in what seems like a blink of an eye. Does that sound corny? Yes I know it does but recently I have been feeling pretty corny and sappy and all around euphoric about the direction my life has taken. I know how far...
by Dionne Thomson | May 6, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
[This post was originally written in the summer of 2016… Today I have chosen to exercise my right to write and belong wholly to myself. Looking back at a this time years ago, when all appeared possible and unknown, I recognize the truest parts of my Self. And...
by Dionne Thomson | Apr 8, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
I want a life on purpose not one by default… I want a life where I am here, now, where I can appreciate the time and energy it takes to be true to oneself in a world that is working hard to make it hard. I vividly remember thinking that I had no...
by Dionne Thomson | Apr 2, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
Do you make time for coffee, the drive to work, to make dinner? Do you stop what you’re doing to bathe your children, do the laundry and ask about their day? Do you plan ahead so that you can fit it all in? My BIG question is what have you made time for today...
by Dionne Thomson | Mar 26, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
A while back I enforced the “no screens, big or small, in the bedroom” rule. I dug out the alarm clock, that we usually keep in the spare room for guests, plugged it and low and behold…no more need for my cell phone to wake me up in the...
by Dionne Thomson | Mar 3, 2018 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
I feel powerless when… I am spiraling in my shame storm (right before I realize where I am). My shame storm always plays out the same way and what makes it so fucking awful, is that it bubbles up within me before I know whats happening. And although I am getting...