by LeisaHammett | Jun 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Pandemic salve, solace, and salvation have manifested in the form of forested park walks these last nearly four months. Hardly a day has passed without their denouement. Emotional fatigue, battles of the mind, of the heart, were almost always dissected in the cocoon...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 14, 2020 | Art, Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Happy birthday, yesterday, to my only child. My daughter. My baby—now grown up young woman. Last year you turned a quarter of a century and those closest to you gathered at a restaurant and celebrated your milestone birthday. This year, while only a year older, of...
by LeisaHammett | May 10, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Uncategorized
The act of becoming a mother means that some invisible hand of life-emotions reaches down into the very pit of your heart and takes a wrench hold. You will never be the same. You have joined the universal community of motherhood. There’s no turning back. If one...
by LeisaHammett | May 1, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It was the second time it happened. The first was in 1997, during the throes of grief and uncertainty after my 27-month-old had just been diagnosed with autism. The second time was sometime around 2006 or 2007. Sometime between relationships. I was at a redlight. Both...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 25, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
I wasn’t raised in a family that laughed a lot. Except maybe at the expense of one another. Hello. ?♀️ (Code: Enneagram 8.) But as I’ve loosened and blossomed more and more into my essence through years, plus, with years of deliberate hard work on the...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 21, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Online Dating
COVID Quarantine Week…5? Or is it 6? I don’t remember anymore. What I do know is that I crashed bottom. Ironically, I wrote an unpublished post last week about the value of seeking therapy when one is hurting. I didn’t publish it because there was...
