Thank you. I do think the greatest moments of strength can come after horrible experiences. At least if I’m lucky enough to get to the other side of them, which so far, thankfully, I always have!

I don’t intend to stop writing about the messy stuff anytime soon. Sometimes I write posts I never publish, but most of the time I eventually hit that button and show my messes to the world!

I hadn’t thought about oversharing as “unloading unwanted information on an unwilling participant” although that definition makes perfect sense. Hopefully readers don’t feel like I’m doing that.

I have been completely amazed by the number of people that reach out because they are experiencing a similar issue or problem in their lives. The more I write about the messes the better I feel, not only because it feels like therapy to me, but because I know it helps others too.

Thank you for listening to my ramblings for all of these years and for providing me with the inspiration to return to writing when I had given up. I really did miss it when I was gone.

I think life is hard for most people at some point or other. It’s easy to envy someone’s life on social media, because the hard stuff doesn’t show. I think the fact that you write about all of your life- the ups and downs, is important. And it’s interesting, so don’t stop!

I don’t read or follow those accounts since they can’t add value or depth to my life.

I appreciate getting to know people, WHOLE people with real lives and successes and challenges. From that perspective, I don’t ever think you’re oversharing. Oversharing implies, to me, that you’re unloading unwanted information on an unwilling participant. I’m here because I do what to know what’s going on and how you truly are.

While still staying anonymous, I’ve never found that opening up about vulnerabilities was a bad things and in many cases I’ve been surprised to hear that it was actually helpful for people to know they weren’t going through hard things alone. I shouldn’t be surprised, I have that feeling too!