Welcome!
To This Unfinished Life…
A Midlife Playground and Workshop
Hello Amazing Humans! Welcome to the Party! Woot! Woot!
This is just my little space for ranting, rambling, and reflecting about this continually changing, often challenging, and sometimes crazy AWESOME thing we call life…
(Midlife, in my case, and we all know what an unexpected joy filled S#!tshow that can be! ☺)
This Unfinished Life is a place
to explore and discover…
…to seek and find…
…to learn and remember…
…and be infinitely kind.
This is a place for curious conversation and for meaningful connection 💖
This is a space for unearthing what still serves us…and releasing what does not.
Let’s talk health & wellness, community & connection, love & longing, habits & hobbies, passion & purpose, wonder & writing, curiosity & creativity, family & friendships, dreams & disappointments, grace & gratitude, fear & fascination, Quality of life & longevity, science & research, joy & grief, change & challenges, life, death, ethics, and the meaning of it all.
(and dogs…I really love dogs ☺)
This is a space to bring our Right Now Self.
The one still holding all the Yesterday Selves… and sometimes still fuzzy on the Tomorrow Selves. The real, raw, honest, work-in-progress that we are every single day of this amazing life!
This is a place for finding our words and our silent spaces…
This Unfinished Life is ours…
…to be…and do…
and see what is possible…
…to embrace our now…
and our next…
…to wander and wonder…
…to be open…
…and to be ever Curious.
And let’s do it all while laughing and playing and dancing around the living room!
And also while trying to remember the joy of the journey and the magic of this moment.
This Unfinished Life is a place for seekers of truth and deeply curious hearts… This stuff is hard to access and harder to share, so remember to be kind to each other! Honesty is best tempered with kindness and grace… (In other words, try not to be a douchebag when you can help it, and when you can’t, try not to bring it here 😉)
This Unfinished life is just sprouting and unfolding.
Please share the things you’d love to see, or read, or be a part of… and we will keep you posted as things take shape!
SO MANY FAVORITE THINGS TO COME!!!
So…Come as you are. Stay and Play.
Or if this isn’t your jam, be on your way.
Just remember, you are welcome here.
And there is SO much more ahead in
this amazing, this maddening, this magnificent,
This Unfinished Life.
Giving, Growing, & Gratitude
Drinking clubs that sometimes talks about stuff
Workshops- Local & Abroad
Connection, Collaboration, & Community
Sharing IG dog videos
Giving, Growing, & Gratitude
Drinking clubs that sometimes talks about stuff
Workshops- Local & Abroad
Connection, Collaboration, & Community
Sharing IG dog videos
Words, Writing, Books, & Bibliophiles
Words, Writing, Books, & Bibliophiles
Unexpected Surprises "Ka-Ka!"
Online & In-Person Classes & Conversations
Local, Community, & World Events
Living Room Dance Parties
Unexpected Surprises "Ka-Ka!"
Online & In-Person Classes & Conversations
Local, Community, & World Events
Living Room Dance Parties
Fun, Friends, Food, & Fiesta
Life, Death, Health, & Hope
Fun, Friends, Food, & Fiesta
Life, Death, Health, & Hope
Sharing Doggie Photos
Travel & Adventure
Curiosity, Creativity, Exploration
Sharing Doggie Photos
Travel & Adventure
Curiosity, Creativity, Exploration
What are you willing to try now?
It’s time to Be yourself! As they say, Everyone else is already taken!
Stop asking for permission. Stop asking other people’s opinions…Live the YOU life.
It’ll be AMAZEBALLS!!
(Can’t wait to see what you choose.)
We are all just figuring it out as we go along…
Sometimes we just need some understanding…
…some patience…
…some grace…
…and Sometimes we just need a swift kick in the arse…
This Unfinished Life is both!
(☺ You’re Welcome! ☺)
The best thing about This Unfinished Life…each and every one of our unfinished lives…
…is there are no mistakes…at least no mistakes we can’t grow through.
There is just now. There is just this moment. There is just breathing in and out…
Thanks for joining us…and Enjoy the Ride!
One of my all-time favorite questions to ask when I’m a little lost or a lot discouraged is…
How Can I Be of Service?
This is a question that cheers me up and gives me perspective.
It works every time!
Hi There New Friend!
I’m Tawnya…
I’m a nurse, a writer, a believer in the very best parts of ourselves.
I am always right!!! and also left *grin* and I will always just be doing my best for wherever I am in any particular moment, with what I know at the time, and with the tools I can access…(so I apologize in advance. ☺ )
So glad you stopped by and Biggest awkwardly long hugs!
In Light, Love, & Laughter Always,
Be kind. Forgive fully. Give freely. Love deeply. This Very Breath. This Very Moment. Now is the right time.
“I have seen the best in you and
the worst in you. I choose both.”
What if it were possible?
What’s truly worth doing, whether you fail or succeed?|What is your secret joy?|Why not do it?|What makes your heart sing?|What do you do when you have nothing that you have to do?|What can you do to make a positive difference in the lives around you?|If money were no object, What would you do each day?|What are you doing when you’re having the most fun?|What would you do if you didn’t worry?|What is so easy for you that it doesn’t even count as a skill?|If you were in charge, would it be different?
Every single life has value and meaning and tells a story. It’s precious and nuanced, deeply personal and important.
The true odds of ever even being born was calculated to be 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th.
So (because math is hard) the translation is that the odds of being alive are basically zero.
Seriously, ZERO!
So why aren’t we doing our Happy Dance every day all day?
The thing is…we forget.
In all the day-to-day. In all the hustle. In checking all the boxes and doing all the right stuff…We win…We become successful…But We forget to feel special.
We grow, we change, we raise kids, we raise companies, we fall, we get up, we break hearts and get our hearts broken, we get fit, we get fat, we get older and we get overlooked, we wonder what’s left? What’s next?
We forget…
We forget that we won the genetic lottery to just be alive…
Much less STILL alive!
AND we have lived and learned and experienced and become the entirely unique person we are today…
We forget that the magic One in a Bazillion Life Lotto Winning Ticket didn’t go away just because we turned 40 or 50 or 70 or 100. It didn’t go away because we aren’t hot or cool anymore… or because we are! And we somehow have everything we ever wanted?!? It didn’t disappear just because we achieved all the goals–or didn’t, because we ‘would have,’ ‘should have,’ ‘never did’ twenty years ago.
We are meant to be here. Right here. Right here in this moment.
At the age we are. In the situation we are in. With (OR without) the passion or purpose or plan we used to have, or never had, or think we should have.
We are meant to be right here. So…What now?
Who am I? What do I do?
Why am I so Blah?
When did everything go sideways? ☺
Maybe it’s time to ask more beautiful questions…
Who am I Now?
Who do I do Now?
Where will my next adventure lead?
How can I build from here?
What if you do nothing?
Action AND Inaction is a decision. It is a choice. You decide each day, each moment, how you will move (or stand still) in your life. You decide to jump up or hit the snooze.
It isn’t right or wrong…It is YOUR decision.
The question is…What do YOU want your life to look like?
“Life is not WHAT happens to you.
Life is how you interpret it. What YOU take from it. And how you move forward.
Where do you go from here? You CHOOSE.”
So, what will you find here at This Unfinished Life, you ask?
Well, a wiser person than I once said…
You find what you are looking for.
In my experience, that quote is annoyingly true. ☺
When you look at what can go wrong? There it is…a hot steaming $h!t-show…
But when you ask more eloquent, hopeful, curious questions?
Well, sky’s the limit!
(well, not really, ‘cause…you know, space and all…So there are no real limits after all! ☺ Woot! ☺)
This Unfinished life is whatever YOU make it…
I want mine filled with Unconditional Love and Kindness, Unconditional Forgiveness and Empathy, Unconditional Understanding, Acceptance and Compassion. Unconditional Grace and Gratitude…
I want a life full of Curiosity, Connection, Community, Collaboration, Conversation, Infinite Positivity, Purpose, Peace, Joy, Laughter (like fall down, can’t breathe, giggling laughter), and Fun…SO MUCH FUN! and I want my heart and soul and life and actions to be in Service of humanity, and Unity, and Generosity.
#LifeGoals ☺
(How am I doing so far??? Meh, I stand and I fall…I fly and I crash-and-burn…I try and I fail…And unfortunately, all too often, I’m just a stubborn, moody, unintentionally offensive, self-absorbed, sarcastic, privileged, whiny white woman with no filter and an embarrassing addiction to formulaic Rom-Coms…
But hey, we have to start somewhere, and it is never too late to find our Authentic Me.
What if it worked?
What do you like about life right now?|What is true…really really true? If not now, then when?|What if you could start over?|What is a moment in your life that you felt fulfilled, what were you doing?|What else is there?|What doesn’t feel like work?|What keeps you up at night and gets you up in the morning?|What do you day dream about?|What are you doing when you lose track of time?|What are you doing to design your life?|If you could only give one piece of advice to shape the life of a child, what would you say?|What are you willing to try now?
What is your Superpower?
