Love and Life with Lisa 🌹

Love and Life with Lisa 🌹 Holding Space A conversation about depression, love, boundaries, and the people who stay 🌿 Gentle Note Before We Begin This post contains a personal reflection on depression, grief, and emotional healing. There are no graphic details, but I speak honestly about pain, loss, and the journey back to myself. If today feels tender, please read gently, pause when needed, or come back when it feels right. You are always allowed to take care of your heart. Come, come — sit with me. Grab yourself a drink, and let’s talk about holding space . This is a conversation about depression, love, boundaries, and the people who stay. I’m going to tell you a story, and I want to be honest with you — it’s an emotional one for me. If my words feel heavy at times, or if you sense tears behind them, it’s because I got to t...

Come, come sit with me… I’ve been thinking about the kinds of men we meet in romance books — the ones who make us blush, laugh, cry, or fall a little in love ourselves. Every romance reader has a type, but in these stories? We get to explore them all. Some sweep us away, some break our hearts, and some remind us what love can look like when it finally finds us. So today, let’s talk about the men who stay with us long after the last page — the Grumpy/Sunshine, the Morally Gray Hero, the Possessive Protector, the Single Father, the Bodyguard, the Alpha Hero, the Golden Retriever sweetheart, the Slow Burn Best Friend, the Reformed Playboy, and of course… the Cowboy or Rancher who can melt us with a glance. 🌹 1. The Grumpy/Sunshine Duo There is something irresistible about a man who claims he doesn’t need anyone — until one woman walks in with warmth he didn’t know he was starving for. He’ll grumble, roll his eyes, act unimpressed… but the moment she laughs? He’s done. Undern...

Come, come sit with me. I’ve been struggling this week. I’ve struggled with going back to work — with slipping back into routine after having space to just be . And I’ve struggled with family too… not in the way you might think, because truthfully, I have a great family. Over the Christmas holiday, I read a series of books by Kristen Granata, the East Coast Hockey Series . While reading, I found myself reflecting on families — what they look like, how they function, and what really holds them together. If you’re curious: Start with Book One of the East Coast Hockey Series by Kristen Granata We all know about the families we’re born into… but what about the families we choose? Yes — you can choose your family. I have the boys, and you all know how much I love them. But I have a chosen family too — the ones I choose to love, to share space with, and to just have laughs with. The kind of laughs that reset your whole spirit. In the series, you see different couples, but you...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for Heated Rivalry . If you haven’t read the book or watched the series yet and want to experience it fresh, you may want to come back after. Come, come sit with me… Oh child, I have to tell you about this series that’s been living rent-free in my head for three days. And let me be honest right from the start — I’m not even a TV person. I usually don’t get into the hype of shows everyone is raving about. I’ll watch here and there, but binge-watching? That’s not really my thing. But this one? This one pulled me in. I binged it. All of it. And it hit me hard — really hard . My bad… the series was Heated Rivalry . What surprised me wasn’t just the story, but how deeply it stayed with me. It wasn’t background noise. It wasn’t entertainment I forgot once the screen went dark. It lingered — in the quiet moments, in my thoughts, in my heart. While the series powerfully explores coming out as gay, wha...