by Jen Tews | Sep 30, 2019 | Off the Mat
Have you ever questioned your worth? I know I have. I thought that I wasn’t good enough, no matter how hard I tried or what I did, I just wasn’t able to measure up. I doubted what I wanted, what I felt, and what I needed and began to defer to others to make sure...
by Jen Tews | Sep 23, 2019 | Off the Mat
The first sign that I have entered the wilderness, that calm place in the forest where everything sounds a little quitter and is a little stiller, is I experience ANXIETY! The type of anxiety where my default reaction is to hand my life over to someone else and ask...
by Jen Tews | Sep 16, 2019 | Off the Mat
Growing up, everyone seemed to want to tell me who I was. It was confusing to me because I felt like they were missing really seeing me, but they insisted I was wrong. How was I to know who was right, did I really know who I was? Eventually I...
by Jen Tews | Sep 9, 2019 | Off the Mat
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”- E.E. Cummings I didn’t feel very confident growing up. I dreamt of being confident like Zena, soaring through the air, but in...