#justshowup – Vulnerability

  We are potters and poets, writers and energy healers, we are watercolorists, musicians, and one who has never ever picked up any type of art supply. We are a group of (10) creatives who have chosen to come together once a week and work towards encouraging and overcoming our creative blocks. Joining this group …

15 Random Facts – {Pass it on}

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.  You kill my father, prepare to die.  Who remembers that line?  That movie?  It's just a random thing that popped into my head as I was prepping for today's blog post. But is it really random?  The truth is...... Hello, my name is Lesley Glenn.  I am a blogging failure. …

I said I “must”….So I am.

This post is one in a series of three that I am doing for various Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns going live this next week, starting on September 21, 2015.  All of my blogs will be reposted here, after they have been published on the organizations websites that I have been asked to write for. …

Bareback

Sometimes words escape me. I can't find the right ones that give voice to my current wanderings and wonderings. Then I find that someone else has been able to articulate the journey well. So it is with this poem by Mark Nepo. Bareback No question I’ve been knocked from my invisible horse and the one with …

Unedited and Uncensored

  Today's post is written by our brave poet, Cindy Powell I had a choice to make about what I was going to post today. I haven’t been feeling terribly inspired lately so I was thinking of posting a poem I wrote a while back. Since it is much more polished than most of the …

The Hike

  I think sometimes I get ashamed of the darkness. Not some sin I struggle with, Or fear I can't let go of. Not even depression I need to pray out of.   I'm talking about the real stuff. The common "Hello, How are you?" And my response of: "I'm good, How are you?" I …

The Conference I Never Wanted to Attend – (Alive to Thrive – Episode 6)

  Today's post comes from Live Brave founder and creator, Lesley Glenn Happy Friday everyone. I am on my way to Philadelphia to the Annual Conference for Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer  In today's "short" episode, I share my trepidation in attending a conference such as this. However, I live my life willing to …

The Other Side of Prayer

Today's post comes from Live Brave Founder and Creator, Lesley Glenn “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, …

Courage NOT To Do Something

Today’s post is written by our Brave Artist Toni Imsen ******* There it sits. A blank canvas. It sits there waiting like so many other things right now. Sometimes it takes courage NOT to do something. Right now I am choosing NOT to do several things. My life has so many other important things that …

When fear is no longer in control

Today's post is by our Brave Writer, Angela Giles Klocke This weekend, I learned there is a very real difference between fear and nervousness. As I readied myself to present my story of abuse and the red flags that I “missed,” I realized that the slight quiver running through my body was normal, regular nervousness, …