I’ve been on a self-love healing journey for quite a while now. If I’m honest, it began when my oldest...
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April Von Braun is a mother of three daughters. She is currently reassessing her career choices and is transitioning back into her creative self, as a writer and artist. Coping with getting older and battling mental health issues within herself, as well as her children, change and new paths are her focus. Her latest book is available here Broken But Beautiful: My Self Love Journey Through Written Word
I am divorcing. After over 20 years married to the father of my three mostly grown daughters. I finally found...
Cuppa Confusion I pour another cuppaEven thoughI’ve not finished one full one.Stress keeps me tryingTo complete.Distract myselfMaking the difficult decisionsOf...
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I never have. I think it is tiresome, and a setup for personal failure,...
This year has been brutal. Mentally speaking, especially. Enduring a pandemic isn’t something any of us can say we entertained...
Am I normal? Is this normal? What the hell IS normal? Normalcy is described in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as being...
I recently made the decision to pause my career. I have been working as a real estate agent for over...
I hate the way this pandemic has made me feel about my fellow humans. My neighbours. The people on my...
This pandemic, and all of its restrictiveness, protocols and fear-based spirited discussion, is a nightmare for many of us who...
The world is paused. Human contact is to be avoided at all costs. It’s war, a battle, a pandemic, a...
Setting boundaries is never easy. I think most of us face doing so at some point in our lives. Usually,...
I’ve just returned from an amazing, almost spiritual trip to Vancouver with my oldest daughter. She’s 20, but suffers from...
I have always had pets. From my early years growing up on Vancouver Island (my place of birth), there was...
As a lifetime anxiety sufferer, I’ve read it all; I’ve researched to the point of exhaustion and I’ve been taught...
It’s been a couple of ugly years of unease and upset. It’s been ongoing questions, debilitating unknowns and quiet frustrations....
A couple of years ago, I challenged myself and my best girlfriend to try rowing. I have always loved the...
If you’ve ever felt anxious in your day-to-day life, like you were waiting for something to happen, but didn’t know...
“Have you ever Googled ‘POTS,’ Mom?” The pediatric cardiologist asked me this as my teenage daughter, Jules, lay still on...
