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Where We Place Our Love
Vera Thomlison Vera Thomlison

Where We Place Our Love

Who would I be without these things that had always offered me comfort, no matter how short-lived? The answer is who I’ve always been, before I was told not to be. And if we are to share the love that we’ve always craved, we have to start with coming back to ourselves. The only home that ever mattered.

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Whose Voice?
Vera Thomlison Vera Thomlison

Whose Voice?

When I love someone, I value them so much, I absorb their words and opinions too much. Words become ideas. Ideas become our reality. It’s a scary thing when something so easily put out into the world can venture and change so much of our internal world. And once it’s in there, it’s so hard to get out.

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The Fallacy of Worry
Vera Thomlison Vera Thomlison

The Fallacy of Worry

Fear is restrictive. Love is expansive. And what that means is, to love someone well, is to provide a really big space, a giant football field-sized space, for them to learn and grow.

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Reactivity and Reawakening
Vera Thomlison Vera Thomlison

Reactivity and Reawakening

She asked us what Lady’s favorite things were. The answer was simple, and not too far from my own: Noah and food.

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