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Coming Home
Man it feels like it's been forever!!! I missed this space but also know that it's ok to take a breather from time to time. Especially...
Monica Odom
Jul 24, 20222 min read
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Protecting Your Peace
...at all costs. At the end of our IG lives, Michelle always reminds us to protect our peace. But what does that look like? When your...
Monica Odom
Jul 1, 20222 min read
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Intentional Friendship
As yall should know by now, I'm a military spouse. With that comes a slew of new ships. Friendships. Acquaintance-ships. Emergency...
Monica Odom
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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More Time
I have 5 more days left in Misawa, Japan, and a recurring theme is "I wish we had more time." It's a typically refrain when it's time to...
Monica Odom
Jun 16, 20222 min read
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Summer, Summer, SummerTime
Ok, I know I can serious over here, because life is fucking serious, but can I get real with you today? I'm tired. I am talking dog ass...
Monica Odom
Jun 2, 20221 min read
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Pages of Your Diary
This was one of those weeks where I wasn't sure what I was going to write about. Ideas would come and go, but nothing stuck out. It...
Monica Odom
May 12, 20222 min read
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Pixie Dust
About a week ago, I started reading Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones also know as Luvvie on Social Media. (Look her up....
Monica Odom
May 5, 20222 min read
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Clarity from Chaos
So if you follow me on my FB or IG accounts, then you know this week was hectic. If you don't, first of all Second, we are a military...
Monica Odom
Apr 28, 20223 min read
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You don't have to live here anymore
I think I'm a good friend, and I'd like to think that my friends and associates feel the same way, unless yall lying... For the past few...
Monica Odom
Apr 14, 20222 min read
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It's too much
That's all I'm heard this morning. It's too fucking much. Literally screamed this in my car during my lunch break. That was after...
Monica Odom
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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So what are you afraid of?
Came to me in meditation today. Last year Michelle and I talked about "doing it afraid"; "it" being anything and everything because...
Monica Odom
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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It's A Process
This phrase has taken up residence in my head over the past few weeks. It's a process. But what's a process, Mon? Hell, everything. ...
Monica Odom
Mar 18, 20222 min read
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Rationing Love
As we wrap up love month, I'm still in 'What does it all mean?', or 'it's this all there is?', or a 'make it make sense.' kinda space....
Monica Odom
Feb 24, 20222 min read
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Grieving Love
These posts are heavy, but very necessary. I didn't expect it to shift this way but I've been in a very introspective space so it doesn't...
Monica Odom
Feb 17, 20222 min read
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Love...Scary?
I think the scariest thing I've ever done is love myself. Why do I say that? As a recovering people-pleaser, I often looked at putting...
Monica Odom
Feb 10, 20223 min read
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Emotional Rollercoaster
This song describes love in my teens and early 20s. "Up and down it goes." #teamshambles #fixitJesus 'You know what's funny? I always...
Monica Odom
Feb 3, 20222 min read
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It's ok if you don't know
One of the things I've noticed on social media is that you shouldn't focus on what you don't want. You need to focus on what you do want....
Monica Odom
Jan 27, 20222 min read
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Under Pressure
Earlier this week I had a dream that a pressure cooker exploded in my kitchen. The shit was loud as fuck, and I was startled out of my...
Monica Odom
Jan 21, 20222 min read
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Just Be, Girl!
I feel like a toddler. Like I should be doing something but my mama want me to be still. Why is it so hard to fall into rest? The art of...
Monica Odom
Jan 13, 20222 min read
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Go shorty, it's ya birthday!!!
A Minute With Mon turns 1 this week!! Now, I'm still in a resting phase, so I ain't go keep yall long. I just want to say thank you....
Monica Odom
Jan 6, 20221 min read
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You Can Get back up again!
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and...

MichelleRena
Apr 172 min read
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2024...where did you go, Mon?
I went a lot of places. If you follow me on IG or FB, you know I went to Greece, Turkey, London, and Paris. But for most of 2024, I went...
Monica Odom
Jan 63 min read
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