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Tamara Dawn November 15, 2021November 15, 2021anticipation, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transition, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitinggratitude, hindsight, hoping, sadness, waiting

Gratitude and sadness…

Ok… So I know that time tends to stand still when you are waiting for something to happen… But I feel like it moves that much slower when you are hoping that something will happen, but aren’t exactly sure how things will work out… Or perhaps I am the only one whose life feels super out of whack right now… And… I also know that once I look back on this period of time, though each moment feels like forever … Continue reading “Gratitude and sadness…”

Tamara Dawn November 1, 2021November 1, 2021advice, anticipation, growth mindset, hopeful, hopeless, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingfrustrating, preparation, waiting

In the waiting… Part 2

Patience has never been a strength of mine… Ok I take that back… Patience is an area that I have been forced to be strengthened in, but waiting is my LEAST favorite thing to do… And it’s so frustrating when I have done everything within my power to accomplish a goal and still have to wait on someone or something else to make it happen… Especially when there’s always this thought in the back of my mind that the other … Continue reading “In the waiting… Part 2”

Tamara Dawn October 11, 2021October 11, 2021anticipation, growth mindset, hopeless, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingpainful situation, sick, thoughts, uncomfortable

In the thick of it…

It’s crazy how when you’re going through something… especially something painful… you can get so caught up in what you’re going through that you forget what life was like before the painful situation… I was sick for about two weeks, and this is how it felt the last week of me being sick (which is the reason there wasn’t a blog post last week)… I slept so much, barely ate, and I was in so much pain; but that part … Continue reading “In the thick of it…”

Tamara Dawn September 20, 2021September 20, 2021anticipation, decisions, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, thought process, transition, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingdetermined, excited, focus, preparation, scared, train of thought, transition

For such a time as this..

I’m finding it a little hard to choose one topic to focus on… And each time that I have attempted to allow you all to ride on one of my trains of thought, my mind quickly jumps to a different track… I guess transition causes my mind to wander in that way… And though I have only knowingly been preparing for this transition for the past 9 or so months… as I continue to reflect on all of the intricate … Continue reading “For such a time as this..”

Tamara Dawn September 13, 2021September 13, 2021anticipation, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transition, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingemotions, patience, silent moves, step of faith, thoughts

Thoughts while in mid-air…

Taking a step of faith is such a wild process… And though I’ve taken many different steps of faith throughout my years on this earth, I can honestly say that there has never been a time that I didn’t doubt my decision… Especially after I’ve taken the step and my foot in kind of dangling in mid-air because it hasn’t quite landed back onto solid ground… Thoughts while in mid-air… Or maybe it’s more accurate for this to say “battles … Continue reading “Thoughts while in mid-air…”

Tamara Dawn September 6, 2021September 6, 2021anticipation, decisions, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingdecisions, fumble, interest, opportunity, time will tell

Did I fumble… or naw…?

As of lately, I’ve been trying to determine whether or not I fumbled an opportunity that was presented to me… And it doesn’t matter what I’m referring to because I’m sure that everyone can relate to the idea of hesitating to make a decision because you are unsure that it is what’s best for you… But I’ve thought about it a lot the past month or so… and as of lately I’ve been wondering if the door is closed… I … Continue reading “Did I fumble… or naw…?”

Tamara Dawn August 30, 2021August 31, 2021anticipation, decisions, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingbad, choices, fear, good, insecurities, wounded, wrong

You have two choices…

It’s interesting how oftentimes you don’t discover how wounded you are until you come across something that is different than what you’ve previously experienced… Something that feels right though you’ve only experienced the wrong… Something that seems good though you’ve only experienced the bad… But you know that you’re experiencing it through the filter of your past pain because you don’t trust it… You don’t trust that you can have something right… because you’ve only experienced the wrong… You don’t … Continue reading “You have two choices…”

Tamara Dawn August 23, 2021August 22, 2021anticipation, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, relationships, thought process, transition, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitinghealthy, redemption, relationships, stronger, struggle, unbothered

Redemption’s on my mind…

The process of redemption is actually kind of wild when I really think about it, because it generally includes some sort of tragedy or misfortune on the front end of the story… But there is something really beautiful about watching someone come out of a season of struggle or constant setbacks… and come out on the other side stronger and wiser, appearing to be unbothered by the very thing that should have taken them out… If we do the work … Continue reading “Redemption’s on my mind…”

Tamara Dawn August 16, 2021August 15, 2021anticipation, growth mindset, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, relationships, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitinglove and be loved, past, past pain, trauma, walk in freedom

Allowing the future’s fire to blaze…

For so many different reasons, I’ve been thinking about the past a lot past lately… But let me start by saying that the word “past” is such an interesting word when you really think about it because, though the moment directly preceding this one is technically defined as “the past”, our minds generally tend to wander to events much further back in time when thinking about the past… Anywho… I guess it kind of makes sense that the past has … Continue reading “Allowing the future’s fire to blaze…”

Tamara Dawn August 10, 2021August 10, 2021anticipation, introspection, journal, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingheart, hope, intentions, mind

The hope that I cling to…

Hope is defined as “the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best…” Hope is such an interesting thing to try to wrap my mind around at times; but it’s something that I have really been clinging to lately… And in some ways hoping for better days has been the only thing that has been keeping me going… I mean don’t they always say that “this too shall pass”… And there … Continue reading “The hope that I cling to…”