Author: brendajohima

Have you ever wasted your time on a relationship? And I mean, wasted. Chasing, hoping, wishing, waiting, trying and giving them chance after chance after chance … of course, most of us have. We usually want the people we love, to stay in our lives. IF I could teach younger people anything at all, it…

Think like a painter. I do. I was a painter first, a photographer second. Photography came much later after painting. Or did it? When I look back in old photo albums, I took a lot of photos as a young girl, and almost all photos were of of wildlife (zoo) and animals and pets. Rarely…

Running away from. Resisting.   Wanting to be anywhere other than where you are at this very moment, causes suffering and pain of some sort, at some level. “Bloom where you are planted” is very simple. Stop resisting where you are right now. BE. There. Now. Make the most of it, make it the best…

Ever felt this way?  

*As one who has dealt with depression on and off for longer than I would like to admit, I, as most of us who struggle are, are always looking for inspiration, tricks, tips and tools to find our way out when in the depths of it all … the black hole or the black dog…

With all the gorgeous fall colors I’ve been seeing online, I’ve been searching for stunning locations also. Sometimes it’s not meant to be, so you need to change tracks, go with the flow and just have fun. I found no locations with the type of imagery I wanted to create, so I let it go…

*Why the stigma for us regular folk? Let’s all be done with hiding of mental health challenges, mental illness, disabilities of all sorts, especially the invisibles ones that we work even harder to hide. From insomnia to severe sleep deprivation, depression, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, post concussion syndrome, fibromyalgia, the only few that I can…