Tag: love

  • Jenna

    Gentle Reminder

    As I lay in the crook of his arm with my head on his chest – the place I have always fit so perfectly –I hear the beating of his heart for the first time in days. The steady rhythm jolts me into how alive we are and how fleeting we are. Underneath all of the rushing […]

  • Jenna

    Birth and Death, Breath by Breath

    My knees met the floor at the side of my bed in desperation, exhaustion. Ironically, the same place I bowed down to birth, I found myself surrendering to grief. In anger and tears, I had lost all strength. The pain was too much. As time recklessly and graciously ticked on, the swell passed. When I […]

  • Jenna

    Loving My Second

    “To fall in love you have to take the risk of changing yourself for that person. You have to let go. Let go of who you thought you were before you loved that person.” – Father Richard Rohr  Sometimes the hardest thing about being a mom isn’t the long days or the sleepless nights. It’s […]

  • Jenna

    The Motherhood

    Before August 16th, 2016, I thought motherhood was a phase that women entered; a personal journey. I thought it was the experience of becoming and being a mother. {The only thing I really had to compare it to was the journey of entering “womanhood” at age 13 and the cringe-worthy feeling of telling my mom […]

  • Jenna

    Travel is a little like being in love.

    There are 220 million people living in a country they weren’t born in. Home is not just a place where you are born, it’s a place where you become yourself.