If you know me, you know I was a very patient girl to get to the place of marrying my husband. This year we will be celebrating seven years married, seventeen together. That’s right. You’ve done the math correctly. That means we didn’t get married until we had been together for ten years. Patience. My…
Author: Pamela Hawkes
My Worth
I’ve always believed that I would find my worth WHEN……… Fill in the blank. When I became a mother. When I got the job. When I got myself out of debt. When I became a wife. When I received the promotion. When “they” accepted me. When. When. When…….. It never comes. I can’t keep doing…
Latest Podcast Favorites!
It’s been a minute since I have put out a post on some of my favorite podcasts I’ve recently listened to. I was on a ROLL of listening to podcasts prior to this season we all find ourselves in. Once we started working from home and I no longer had a commute, I lost the…
My Dearest Tribers
My Dearest Tribers, It’s me, your friend Pamela. The voice behind the Unapologetically Me Blog. I hope you are well. No, scratch that. I hope you are stable, present and in a healthy headspace. I write this letter to you on what will soon be my one year anniversary of creating this blog. I found…
My Biggest Fear Happened
I have had one fear for eighteen years now, and last summer it came true. My oldest daughter moved out. It’s not the fact that she moved out that was my fear. No. I knew that was coming one day obviously. No, my biggest fear had been that my daughter would move out and it…
A letter to my 18 year old self
I was recently working with the ladies I do group coaching with on the topic around self love. It’s a theme we picked for the month of May. It was something that a lot of us in the group struggle with, so it seemed like an easy pick of a theme to cover. I am…
I’ve Felt this Way Before.
I attended a conference recently that spoke a lot to the “why” behind our feelings surrounding the current season we all are finding ourselves in. A question was asked if the feeling we find ourselves experiencing right now is something that we have experienced before. This thought was then followed by a couple of questions…
I love my kids AND
I love my children so much. I am forever grateful for the gift of being their mama, but this season, this current space we find ourselves in, this is hard. I remember back to my maternity leaves, the anxiety and stress I felt for the constant countdown as each week melted away. The time flew…
To the Class of 2020
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This wasn’t supposed to be your Senior year. My heart breaks for every single one of you. As you worked through your school career, you had a vision of what it was “supposed” to look like. You had a goal in sight, things to look forward to and…
You can do hard things.
I am going to make an assumption here and guess that you, yes you, the person reading this post right now, YOU have experienced hard things in your life. Hard things can look different for each of us. Hard things could be the loss of a loved one. It could be the loss of a…