by Hollye Dexter | May 19, 2017 | aging gracefully, Healing from Fear, self acceptance, self esteem, teenage daughter, things I wish i knew then
Dear Teen Self,Remember that muggy, summer afternoon when you and your friends sat in a circle on your bedroom floor, your fingers raking through the tired, flattened shag carpet while you all pondered whether you’d still be alive in the year 2000? (And then the...
by Hollye Dexter | Oct 30, 2012 | aging, living authentically, self esteem, skin cancer, sun exposure, tanning, tanning booths
This is what I look like right now. This is my fifth bout with skin cancer, and the fourth (and by far the worse) permanent scar on my face. I don’t go in the sun. I wear sunscreen every day (have for as long as I can remember) so how did I get this way?This is a...
by Hollye Dexter | Oct 5, 2011 | judgment, life lessons, self acceptance, self esteem, self forgiveness
“When you judge someone, you do not define them. You simply define yourself as someone who needs to judge.” – Wayne DyerWe all make judgments every day; I like this, I don’t like that. I don’t like the way he drives. I like the way she dresses. We pick and...
by Hollye Dexter | Jul 15, 2011 | handling rejection, job search, Middle Age, pursuing dreams, self esteem
Amy Ferris and I had this conversation the other day and decided we’d blog about it together. Mine is below, and Amy’s is linked at the bottom. Every time I start to panic about money, and start looking for “real jobs”, I am daunted by how...
by Hollye Dexter | Dec 28, 2010 | family, family dysfunction, healing, ridding your life of negative energy, self esteem
I’m truly a terrible gardener. I so envy those of you with your flourishing english gardens in Southern California. Oh you, with your lovely spring vegetables, showing up with bags of ripe, plump tomatoes on my doorstep- you amaze me. For years I’ve described myself...
by Hollye Dexter | Oct 15, 2010 | competition, friendship, jealousy, life lessons, self esteem
(Oh sequins…the mortal enemy of mid-life woman…)I’m picking up the thread of a blog I wrote a couple months ago. It was a story about a time when I got caught up in envy and, dare I say it, jealousy. The life lesson was this: jealousy has nothing to do...