On Building a Right-Sized Life: I Choose Simple over Easy

Sep 15, 2019 4 Comments
On Building a Right-Sized Life: I Choose Simple over Easy

Inside: Building a right-sized life means a made from scratch, handcrafted, customized life that is honest, authentic, and helps us walk out each day on purpose. My right-sized life includes soulful simplicity. Yours can too. This post contains relevant referral links. I’m not convinced life has to be as complicated as we make it. We don’t control every circumstance but most of us still have a lot of room to choose. I choose simple. Conscious or soulful simplicity allows me to live with purpose, health, and joy. It allows me […]

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Why It’s Time to Stop Waiting for Everything to be Okay

Sep 6, 2019 Leave a Comment
Why It’s Time to Stop Waiting for Everything to be Okay

Inside: Stop waiting for easy or perfect – life is messy but you are strong and brave enough to walk through each challenge or obstacle you face. This a guest post by Angie Schultz of The Becoming Place. Is everything going to be okay? How often have you said those words? Most of us have repeated some version of them many times, whether to ourselves or others. The predictable response: Everything will be okay, is meant to provide reassurance and hope. But those words can ring empty, even as you […]

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You Can Find Your Way to Brave

Aug 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
You Can Find Your Way to Brave

Inside: I say yes to all of life and this includes saying yes to the soul-stretching and messy, get-your-hands-dirty kind of work required for showing up fully to life in every season, and in process I learn that I am brave. When I keep my eyes on my own path and give myself permission to play, try, explore, say yes to things that draw me without attachment to outcome, I am happy. When I hold space for others to be messy and imperfect and doing their best, and I hold […]

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How I Simplify and Leverage the Strengths of Social Media

Aug 22, 2019 Leave a Comment
How I Simplify and Leverage the Strengths of Social Media

Inside: Social media is a tool with both perks and potential risks – but it is what we make of it. We can learn to leverage its strengths and let go of the rest. Inside, I share 5 benefits of social media to my life and the 5 primary ways I simplify its use to keep it in it’s place. This post contains some referral links. I’m grateful for social media. As a strong introvert who loves solitude and working from home, chewing on and discussing ideas, and walking out […]

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It Takes Courage to Become Who You Really Are

Aug 10, 2019 10 Comments
It Takes Courage to Become Who You Really Are

Inside: Growth is messy and it takes courage to become who you really are. But doing this hard, stretching work leads to freedom and a sense of rootedness and calm. These three keys are essential to intentional, sustainable growth. As funny as it sounds, it can take decades for us to become who we really are. We’re called to sift through external and internal pressures and ideas about how we ought to be, push back against outdated messages about gender roles or familial patterns, accept the invitation to peel away […]

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Here’s to the late bloomers. Find your way in your time.

Jul 26, 2019 23 Comments
Here’s to the late bloomers. Find your way in your time.

Inside: You haven’t missed the boat. If you’re one of the many late bloomers, it’s not too late. You can reinvent yourself and build a life you love. This post contains referral links. This a guest post by Emma Scheib of Simple Slow Lovely. I have always been a late bloomer. Not in the physical sense, but in almost every other facet of life. I didn’t start university until I was 23, and I didn’t start my love affair with running until I was 25. I’ve spent my thirties raising […]

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How to Bumble Your Way into Beauty (in 10 Simple Steps)

Jul 17, 2019 9 Comments
How to Bumble Your Way into Beauty (in 10 Simple Steps)

Inside: You don’t have to be perfect or to even know exactly where you’re going to build a beautiful, joyful, purposeful life. You can bumble your way into beauty. Maybe life isn’t quite as complicated as we’ve thought it was. And maybe finding our way to a life of purpose, joy, and beauty is more readily attainable than we’ve believed. How to bumble your way into beauty   Step one: Struggle with anxiety and hide a lot. Daydream about writing or sharing your mission and message but never actually take […]

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You Don’t Have to Be Fine

Jul 12, 2019 10 Comments
You Don’t Have to Be Fine

Inside: you are the expert on your life and walking through grief or trauma, or other hard seasons of life, is not a race. We do it in our own time, and our own way, and it’s OK to not be fine. It’s OK to not be fine. When someone asks the inevitable, rote, “how are you?” it’s OK to opt out. When it feels like friends or acquaintances think you should be better now, over your grief, through the storm and dry and steady on the other side, it’s […]

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