Terribly and beautifully and painfully alive.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Sex + Desire, Uncommon Sense + Advice

“Are you okay, beauty?” “Not so much, but it’s really something I should not discuss because it should never have been in the first place. I’m sure karma and her friends are raining down upon my head. I deserve to battle alone…” No. That is a lie. A lie that...

For the ones who write

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse, writing + creativity

This is a love letter for the writers… Hey you. You who writes. You who keeps on writing. You who pours out your hurt and your joy and your bliss and your ways of being and existing and understanding onto page and screen. You who hits the submit button again and...

steady up girl {you are way better than this}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing, Poetry + Verse

this is an ode to the broken-hearted. for those early days when the ground is unsteady and you are still measuring your worth by their absence instead of the staggering truth of your own presence. this is a poem to hold you until you are steady enough to hold...

broken || open {a love letter for the broken-hearted}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing

Make no mistake, love; this has been the losing time. The time of grasping tight and trying hard and still, in the end, being forced to let go. Of fingers locked tight and pried stiff from that which you’d hoped to hold for so very long. It’s been the falling down...

Buy A Lavender Plant: 115 Ways to Heal Your Own Broken Heart.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing

buy a lavender plant. fall asleep with sprigs of it on your chest. breathe it deeply, all the way inside. back to the mat, no exceptions. fall asleep in savasana. cry in pigeon. laugh out loud in happy baby. mascara and groomed brows, always.  red lipstick when...