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…
Author: Pamela Hawkes
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…
Pause.
It’s interesting, I started this blog post back in November of 2019 and then came back to it in January of this year. I named the post “Pause” and wrote a little blurb (below) about what I was thinking and feeling one day. The best part is, I couldn’t even “Pause” long enough to actually…
Social Media is Disconnecting More Than Reconnecting
Something has really been on my heart lately. Maybe it stemmed from the social media break I took for 30 days. When I first went back to social media, I was not on as much as I had been, but I had noticed something. We as a society are depending WAY too much on social…
Have I Let My Family Down?
My husband knew from day one of dating me that my education was something I took pride in. The fact that I had gone to school for my associates, being a young, then single mama was empowering to me. It was the evidence I needed to push myself to move forward through hard times. Soon…