by Tara Joyce | Jul 19, 2016
To see only yourself in every reflection, and only the parts you want to see, a life is lived in the shallow end. Where there is deepness and darkness, you do not probe, unwilling to go deeper. Uncomfortable with its truth, you reject and dismiss that which you care...
by Tara Joyce | Jun 10, 2016
It’s an endless quest to be good enough in another person’s eyes. Not facing our own thoughts and feelings, we measure our self using the eyes of another. Unable to acknowledge it’s really our own perception of self that we use as the measure—not...
by Tara Joyce | Mar 17, 2016
It needs to be good. No. It needs to be great. If it isn’t, it’s not worth anything. My sentiment is, of course, not true. Despite how I may feel, the worth of it, of anything, lies not in its goodness (or lack thereof) but in what is being expressed and...
by Tara Joyce | Jun 9, 2015
Many of us dream of reaching perfection, not realizing the cost of it. Many of us dream of the day we can banish our imperfections from our lives. Perhaps, you too feel you’d be happier without your imperfections. I’m certainly not here to disagree....
by Tara Joyce | Dec 2, 2014
In order to write Pay What It’s Worth, my first book of what I hope is many books, I needed to trick myself into not being so scared. I didn’t believe I could do it. I didn’t trust that I had what it took to fulfill a dream I’d held for so...