Marisa Donnelly
Marisa is a writer, poet, & editor. She is the author of Somewhere On A Highway, a poetry collection on self-discovery, growth, love, loss and the challenges of becoming.
Just So You Know, It’s Okay To Feel Everything
To feel means that you are experiencing life. It means that you are allowing yourself to be a real person. A person with faults and flaws, expectations and emotions. A person that is capable of loving and forgiving, breaking and rebuilding, again and again.
To The Men, Please Don’t Settle Either
If you find yourself wishing for someone else. If your days feel empty, like something’s missing, if you know that this woman isn’t who you’d want to marry one day, then let her go.
Don’t Be Afraid To Be Vulnerable
People so often confuse vulnerability with weakness. They believe that being vulnerable is being naïve, is standing on a ledge, closing your eyes, and falling, blindly into people and relationships. But what they don’t understand, is that being vulnerable is the strongest thing you can be.
I Want You When You’re Broken
I know I cannot fix you, cannot make you whole. But I can make you believe. And I want that.
11 Reasons Why Working With Young Children Is The Most Rewarding Job In The World
You celebrate the little things every single day.
Please, Be This Kind Of Woman
Be a woman who doesn’t expect everything to be handed to her, but goes out and creates her own world.
This Is How You Know Your Broken Heart Has Finally Healed
You aren’t scared of letting someone in. Because you know that all men are not the same, and you don’t want to hide behind your fear anymore.
Read This If You’re A Woman Who Likes To ‘Fix People’
This might not be the way of the world, to be a fixer, to appreciate a fixer. It’s unhealthy, really, to love people that aren’t good for you, to try to mend what can only be mended by that person. But you try because it’s inherent within you to care.
And you don’t need to apologize for that.