MELINDA K. BOWENS

#BreakingTheCycle: So About This Brokenness Thing… When I was in graduate school, I had a friend that loved to make mosaic artwork. She...

#BreakingTheCycle: Sweet Spot, Turned Sour If any of us have ever needed to get into the groove of anything, like working out for...

#BreakingTheCycle: But It Wasn’t Perfect Well, we’re on the “emotions” part of this series and we’ve done a hefty amount of soul...

#BreakingTheCycle: Own It If you’ve ever been around small children (infant aged), then you have probably played the face hide-and-seek...

#BreakingTheCycle: You’re in Timeout Now a more appropriate title for this post would have been, “I’m in timeout, you’re in timeout,...

#BreakingTheCycle: You have to be in or out Do you remember those summer days or good weather weekends when we were younger and would...

#BreakingTheCycle: Sharing is Caring If we take a look back at any given PBS television show in the past 30 years, there are probably...

#BreakingTheCycle: Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire I’m from a pretty small town. And on top of that, I lived most of my life outside of...

#BreakingTheCycle: Those Sneaky Emotions! After finishing graduate school, I had the most amazing opportunity to be a children’s...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of the Past The past is the past…right?! Well, kinda sorta. Whether it be in real life or a movie, we’ve...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of Anger "Anger is a secondary emotion." I still remember one of my professors from grad school saying...

The Defense of Busyness We’re busy people these days and that statement really came as a shock to no one; but I thought I would start...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of “The Mask” We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of Titles Titles sound so prestigious. The introduction of Dr. Grey or the mention of Maxine Shaw,...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of Procrastination Hello. My name is Melinda and I’m a procrastinator. *the rest of the group greets me...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of Logic “Makes sense to me.” This simple one liner right here usually comes after we have just explained...

#BreakingTheCycle: The Defense of Pessimism For starters, I don’t think many people claim to be full-time pessimists. Just the thought of...

#BreakTheCycle: The Defense of Stubbornness “I’m stubborn, not deaf.” Of all the phrases I say or have said on a regular basis, this had...

#BreakingTheCycle: Defenses I was taking a BuzzFeed quiz today on college mascots (because that’s what every productive adult does in the...

#Breaking the Cycle What are cycles in our lives? Do they even exist? Or am I just being dramatic?! (Which is a very real possibility...