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Return To Yourself – Again and Again

Return To Yourself – Again and Again

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom, Gratitude + Attention, Love Letters + Permission

This is my first morning without the kids this week, and predictably, I woke from my internal 6am alarm clock. But today I allowed myself the sweet grace of a little more sleep, still smiling the smile I went to bed with last night after a much needed evening with...
Over and over and over again

Over and over and over again

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom, Gratitude + Attention, Love Letters + Permission

I set the alarm last night thinking I probably wouldn’t to it. Up too late writing wild. Too tired. I don’t usually follow through. The alarm was a half-assed thought, really. Another way, maybe, to feel badly about myself for not doing what I say I will...
the week the unfolding began

the week the unfolding began

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom, Gratitude + Attention, Love Letters + Permission

This was the week of the whole and the holy. The week of wine in mason jars and the tears that hit so hard I became salt water for a while and as the night grew deeper I pulled a chair into the kitchen to reach high on tip toes to search for the cigarette hidden so...
I would swim the sea for to ease your pain {a love letter for the weariest souls}

I would swim the sea for to ease your pain {a love letter for the weariest souls}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing, Love Letters + Permission

{Listen to the music that inspired this post while you read} “If I needed you. Would you come to me? Would you come to me for to ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you. I would swim the sea for to ease your pain.” ~If I needed You – Emmylou Harris...
You are seen. You are seen.  You are seen.

You are seen. You are seen. You are seen.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Love Letters + Permission

Dear you. I see you, turning on the shower and standing under the hot spray, hoping that waterfall of sound is enough to muffle the signs of your tears from the children outside. I see you, holding up the weight of the world and trying so very hard and knowing, in...
we are built by many things {a letter to the ghosts of love}

we are built by many things {a letter to the ghosts of love}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing, Love Letters + Permission

Dear love, It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire and water and air. By the lessons of the grandmothers and the pounding of blood through veins and the very first break. The way it felt when...
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