Getting Somewhere
When I first started writing Big Blogs, it was my way of sharing deeper and speaking truer. I’d been doing that in writing my first book,...
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elyse hughes
- Feb 6
- 4 min
Rejecting The Olive Branch
I didn’t want to forget the time before the struggles began sloughing off like old, dry skin. A time when every aspect of life except my...
elyse hughes
- Oct 6, 2022
- 8 min
On Fear
You have nothing else to do and nowhere else to be. There’s only this. This page. These ideas. Now is all that matters. That’s what I...
elyse hughes
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
The First Week Of April
In the first week of April, the plants took a deep breath. Everything budding, blooming, stretching out and smiling in the sun. Birds...
elyse hughes
- Mar 19, 2022
- 5 min
Why Weight Gain (or anything else) ISN'T A Result Of Spiritual Misalignment
Remembering this Divine truth — that love is who you are — is key to your healing, for your relationship to food is an area where your...
elyse hughes
- Mar 12, 2022
- 3 min
Luxury
As my grandmother used to say, “Dirt will wait, but your children growing up so quickly won’t.” She didn’t mean that we should live in...
elyse hughes
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Mic Drop
“I call that the mic drop,” I explained after flopping down sideways on the bed like a seal. He gave me the side-eye and a small laugh,...
elyse hughes
- Oct 29, 2021
- 5 min
Over It Then In It (IV of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
I had a dream that she was telling me off. Then telling me off some more. Securing the last word, yet again. Then the scenery changed to...
elyse hughes
- Oct 23, 2021
- 5 min
Cheeseburger In The Dark
I pulled into an empty parking lot outside the closed health food store, sliding into a spot under a tree that cast me in shadow,...
elyse hughes
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
These In-Between Times
There are days that I wake up sad. Or it sinks in unexpectedly, out of nowhere, for reasons unknown. Everything weighted and bleak, all...
elyse hughes
- Sep 25, 2021
- 4 min
A Slower Rise
Sometimes I let the nightmares keep me in bed. I’d be lucid, but not in control, allowing turmoil to play out in front of me, scratching...
elyse hughes
- Sep 18, 2021
- 3 min
The Fallout (II of V in the Friend Breakup Series)
Why does the shit stick? Not the times we listened with our heart wide open to catch the other’s pain . . . stopped everything to be...
elyse hughes
- May 8, 2017
- 2 min
Social Cleansing (I of III in the Social Detox Series)
I always compared myself to others and cared what people thought. I lived outside my skin, energetically clinging to others so I could...
elyse hughes
- Apr 30, 2017
- 7 min
Calico
I flew down the highway on what could possibly have been classified as the perfect day. True blue skies, dotted cloud puffs, mellow...
elyse hughes
- Apr 18, 2017
- 2 min
Integrating
It was a day that felt like nothing much mattered. I didn't even know if anything changing in my life would shift the leaden apathy that...
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