What does taking responsibility mean to you?  Does it sound like it should be a four letter word?  It did for me most of my life growing up.  That phrase was thrown around my house like a manipulation.  You’re not doing what I told you to do – you need to take responsibility!  Not having remorse for our actions, and apologizing without meaning it.  Yeah, that’s really taking responsibility, not.  Stay with me, I’m going somewhere with this.  In my mid/late twenties I started writing a book titled The Complete Bitch.  I mean who better to write a book than a girl who was every type of bitch that I was writing about.  While the book was to be a funny coffee table type, it still managed to piss me off so I quit writing it.  Who likes to feel unable to connect with kindness?  Obviously it wasn’t in my destiny to stay a ‘B’, thank God!

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