embracing change – Red Tent Living

Embracing

By: redtentwomen March 23, 2021March 17, 2021

Day to Day, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, Wholeheartedembracing change, Ginger Irvine, Healing from trauma, release, Self Acceptance7 Comments

Release grandeur Embrace the unnoticed Release hurry Embrace now

Fight Like A Girl

By: redtentwomen March 20, 2020March 20, 2020

Day to Day, Faith, Femininitycancer, Cancer Survivor, Change, Death, embracing change, Loss of Spouse, Margaret McCoy3 Comments

My husband was diagnosed with acute kidney disease with renal failure in 2012. At that time, he was driving a truck making 10-day trips from Texas to New Mexico and I often accompanied him. On April 1, 2012, I started my period. I had been dealing with “the change” for ten years, which included horrible,…

Embracing the New Normal

By: redtentwomen January 7, 2019January 14, 2019

Day to Day, Faith, relationshipsAging, desire, embracing change, Pat Sloan, Stroke Survivor4 Comments

I love this time of year!! I love the season of celebration that comes with Christmas and the New Year, the music, worship, family time and friends. All of this welcomed with joy in our hearts always, and especially now, as I am more aware of the precious gift of time. And yet, the holidays…

Bar Joke

By: redtentwomen March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

Day to Day, Intentional LivingArmed Services Arts Partnership, Charles Bukowski, Christianity, Deconstruction, embracing change, Libby Kurz, Poetry, Teaching Writing3 Comments

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski Three nurses and a radiology resident walk into a bar. They are young, single, female military officers who gather on weekends to drink cheap wine, eat overpriced sushi, and commiserate about their love lives (or lack thereof). Picture a scene from Grey’s Anatomy…

The New Dance of Motherhood

By: redtentwomen January 15, 2018January 15, 2018

Day to DayAnna Smith, embracing change, life changes, New Mother, Pregnancy, Restore One, The Anchor House8 Comments

I stood there baffled as two blue lines appeared on the Walgreens pregnancy test. I struggled to find words as I called Chris into the bathroom. About eight pregnancy tests later, I poured out my beer, over ate pizza and spent the night on the couch. To my disbelief we were now a party of…

Stitched Together in Love

By: redtentwomen December 22, 2017December 22, 2017

Day to Day, relationships, The Homeembracing change, holidays, Moving, parenting adult children, Tracy Johnson12 Comments

I remember helping my mom pack up my childhood home. I was twenty-four and pregnant with my first daughter. That feels important to mention, because the bending over to wrap things in paper and place them in the box was killing my back.

From Behind the Wall

By: redtentwomen September 13, 2017September 12, 2017

relationshipsembracing change, forgiveness, Maryhelen Martens, Mother Daughter Relationships11 Comments

It is less than twenty-four hours into my daughter’s visit and things are tense. My stomach churns as I begin to fear our next ten days together. I had high hopes for this visit.

Here I Go.

By: redtentwomen June 14, 2017June 14, 2017

Day to Daybecoming, embracing change, Katy Johnson, possibility, road trip, start up company, traveling11 Comments

Jumpy. That’s how I felt—like a skittish deer who thought she could make a break for the other side of the freeway, changed her mind at the very last second, and leapt back from the road to narrowly avoid a semi truck.