Life Out Loud
with Desireé Melfi Bozzo
Monday Musings Category
Encouragement for Mommies
Posted on June 27, 2019 Leave a Comment
It’s 2:28 am and I hold his fevered body. He’s hot but he also just wants to cozy so close on my chest. I stroke his hair and sing his favorite Italian lullaby softly. After thinking on this for a moment, I decide it’s really my favorite. It’s about a mommy rocking her baby to […]
Toes in the Water, Ass in the Sand… That’s Where the Real Work Begins.
Posted on June 24, 2019 Leave a Comment
I write this with my feet lazily tucked into a mound of warm sand. I feel it sift between my toes. I have needed this feeling for far too long. The heat of the sun seems to thaw my body and then work its warmth right down to my bones. The water crashes against the […]
4.29.19
Posted on April 29, 2019 Leave a Comment
Another Monday Musing is on deck but this morning I feel as if I can’t find the words. Surely I have things to say but today, this day, I don’t feel it. My soul feels heavy. My body is tired. Despite knowing in my gut exactly why I am feeling this way, I feel the […]
Monday Musings 4.15.19
Posted on April 15, 2019 Leave a Comment
I laid on the soft, heated table in the dark room, heat lamps hovered above my body radiating warmth across my skin. The temperature outside hovered around 10 degrees but I was in a cocoon of warmth and it was magical. I drifted in and out of sleep while the acupuncture needles did all the […]
Monday Musing 4.8.19
Posted on April 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
Does your soul ever get wonky? The kind of wonky where you feel itchy in your own skin. Like something is off and you’re unsettled. Err… uhh… right. Me neither. Except, can I be honest in this super safe space? Sometimes I do. Sometimes my soul feels wonky and I feel itchy in my own […]