Author Tamara Dawn Posted on January 23, 2023January 22, 2023Categories emotions, fresh start, growth, growth mindset, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, relationships, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , , , , ,

To my first love…

Hey… I know it’s been a while… And I know I never announced my departure, but I knew I’d be back… I thought I would be back after things began to feel less repetitive and unfamiliar… When you really think about it, that doesn’t even make sense… But nevertheless nothing has really changed in that regard… And in some ways, I’ve learned to embrace the unfamiliar because I don’t really want to return to what I once knew… And even … Continue reading “To my first love…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022Categories advice, conflict, decisions, emotions, freedom, fresh start, friendships, growth mindset, healing, hopeful, introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, relationships, thought process, transparency, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , , ,

If they wanted to know the truth…

There are people who don’t like you… People you have never interacted with… And these people don’t like you because of a version of you they heard about from someone you are no longer in relationship with… And what’s interesting about this is the fact that sometimes the version of you they describe is either a false version or a version of you that no longer exists… I have seen that happen from time to time in my own life… … Continue reading “If they wanted to know the truth…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on February 7, 2022February 7, 2022Categories anticipation, growth mindset, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , , ,

Going through the motions…

Loneliness has been a constant companion lately… and it’s kind of weird to wrap my mind around that concept because I have been interacting with more people on a regular basis than I normally do… Yet loneliness has still been a constant companion lately… And I am not one who really needs a ton of interaction with people because that can actually be quite draining to my inner introvert whose hobbies and career have always required extrovert behavior… But lately … Continue reading “Going through the motions…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022Categories anticipation, fresh start, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , , , ,

New year, new me…

2021 felt like the longest year of my life as I trudged through some of the hardest trials that I have had to endure… And that’s saying a lot considering some of the hardships that I have had to walk through in my 41 years on this Earth, but there were literally days that I felt a hopelessness that I am not sure that I have ever experienced… But it’s interesting how this new year has given me an unexpected … Continue reading “New year, new me…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021Categories advice, decisions, growth mindset, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , , , ,

I hope this was helpful…

There are so many things that I could write about and once again I’m finding it hard to decide on one train of thought to ride this week.. So here is a list of a few random pieces of advice related to events that have occurred in the past week or so… 1- Know thyself, be secure in who you are, and be vocal about shutting things down when someone tries to give you a label that does not line … Continue reading “I hope this was helpful…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021Categories anticipation, growth mindset, hopeless, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , ,

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…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021Categories anticipation, growth mindset, hopeful, introspection, isolation, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transition, transparency, Uncategorized, vulnerability, waitingTags , , , ,

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…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on July 12, 2021July 12, 2021Categories introspection, journal, Monday's musing, reflection, thought process, transparency, UncategorizedTags , , , , 1 Comment on Something is better than nothing…

Something is better than nothing…

It has been quite the struggle to gather my thoughts together this morning and focus on one thing that I want to write about in this post…  And so much of me wants to just skip this week or try to get something published for tomorrow… I mean it’s not like my publishing schedule is based on someone else’s deadline… But I have really been trying to “stick to the script”, as I like to say, and be consistent with … Continue reading “Something is better than nothing…”

Author Tamara Dawn Posted on November 1, 2020April 17, 2021Categories journal, reflection, relationships, single, transparency, UncategorizedTags , , , , , , , , 3 Comments on “If you happy I’m happy”

“If you happy I’m happy”

It’s crazy how a brief exchange of words can cause a greater impact than the sender probably intended… “If you happy I’m happy” Those five words made sense as the response to the preceding text, as we were discussing a decision I had made regarding a project we had worked on.  You would think I would have just said “ok” and allowed this part of the text thread to become nothing more than a soon to be forgotten memory. But … Continue reading ““If you happy I’m happy””