by Maria Merloni | Aug 10, 2016 | Relationships, Spirituality
It hurts. Letting go of a Beloved always hurts. It really doesn’t get easier with “practice” and life experience, does it? Not for me anyway. Last week I had an ending of relationship with one of my lovers. And even though I was the one who...
by Maria Merloni | Jul 31, 2016 | Relationships, Self Love
I’ve been thinking about how we use numbers to evaluate people a lot. And it’s not a good thing. Numbers for scores on tests. Numbers for height. Numbers on a scale. Numbers for age. And there’s always a “good” number and a...
by Maria Merloni | Jun 26, 2016 | Relationships, Self Love
Boundaries have been coming up for me SO MUCH lately! As I raise the bar with my own boundaries- again, defined by Brene Brown as “what’s okay, what’s not okay”- the next opportunity to inquire into and define my boundaries comes up. What I...
by Maria Merloni | May 17, 2016 | Relationships, Spirituality
I woke up this morning with this thought: When we use the phrase “making love”, what does that really mean? In fact, it doesn’t make sense to me anymore. I’ve always been a bit let down by the ability of that phrase to accurately reflect what...
by Maria Merloni | Dec 9, 2015 | Relationships
The holiday season is upon us, and this year I am thinking about giving. Not the kind of obligatory giving that we have probably all done. The kind of giving that comes from a genuine impulse to give. Have you ever thought about that? A few years back, I noticed...
by Maria Merloni | Oct 28, 2015 | Relationships, Self Love
A few weeks ago, I attended a cultural event that my daughter was performing in at her college. My ex-husband attended also. We might have driven together- this would not be unusual- except for the fact that we both had prior engagements, separately. He got there...
