JESSE IHDE

“I came that they may have life and have it to the full.” I am not playing small, dumbing down or living in a bubble.  I am not following a silly set of rules or hiding from my culture.  I want life to the full. To the full is my husband coming home at the end of the day and my children embracing each other with love. To the full is diversity.  To the full is turning the crisp pages of a new novel that transports me to another time and another place.  True friends.  To the full is crying …

Seeing a therapist for the first time or even the first time after a long time is like finding relief after being emotionally constipated.  It hurts.  When you are finished, you feel better than when you came in but you aren’t sure you can call it a positive experience.  What you do know is you need to make sure it happens again soon. Truthfully, I wanted to walk away from therapy with a fully developed white paper – Jesse Ihde’s Life; The Final Draft – with the stamped approval of a professional.  I wanted the perceived warmth of wrapping myself …

Have you ever had this happen to you?  All the sudden you had a catastrophe in your life and some of the people who you sincerely believed were your friends totally disappeared. For me, it happened a few years ago when my sister went through a divorce.  I love her ex-husband.  Even now.  He’s been in my life since I was eleven and though I don’t feel I have a way to express it to him, I sincerely love him.  And I was completely torn to hell over all of this. As with all divorces, relationships were broken. I found …

There are a few people in this world with such distinction as my mother.  And every person who has wandered across her path would tell you the same story… She stopped everything to listen to my story.  She patted my arm and made sure I felt safe, accepted and loved.  Then she offered me a warm meal, a cold drink and a place in her heart.  I immediately felt like I belonged; both to her and to something greater than the relationship between us but a source of love I could only call divine.  She is an unconventional woman who …