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Go Slow: When Life Feels a bit outside of normal time

28 January 2021

Inside: I don’t often wish to go back in time but there’ve been seasons where I wished I could slow it down. I have needed more time. We are allowed to go slow. To honour our wiring, to tell the truth about what we need. We are allowed to go deep and listen and breathe …

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The Gift of Winter is Freedom

20 January 2021

Inside: As author Sara Avant Stover teaches, the medicine for winter is rest. And I’d add that the gift of our Winter Seasons is freedom. This post contains referral links. Midlife is messy. The middle season of life is an important and often uncomfortable time of transition and development in which we come to a …

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Go Deeper Not Wider with Tiny Little Steps

2 January 2021

Inside: I’m feeling a call to go deeper, not wider this year; to simplify in work and life to make space for my deepest work and highest priorities. This post contains an affiliate link. I like this in-between space – the closing out of one year and slowly finding our way into the next. I …

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Small Step by Step We Build Our Lives

1 January 2021

Click here to save and print Small step by step we build our lives. Let’s build intentionally. Here are a handful of posts to offer food for thought as you slowly but surely build an intentional life or say yes to living “imperfectly on purpose.” Handcraft a Brave and Beautiful Life What if all I …

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I Write My Way to Freedom

29 December 2020

Inside: I write my way to freedom in messy lists, hopeful reminders, and unfancy reflections that quiet the cacophony of fear and despair. This post may contain affiliate links. Being proud of ourselves – of our bravery, courage, persistence, and strength is not bragging and it is not self-centered. It is important, critical even, to …

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Handcraft a Beautiful Life That Feels Like Home

13 December 2020

Inside: The more we learn to work with instead of against our wiring, life feels simpler (though not necessarily easy), it begins to more honestly reflect the truth of who and how we are, and helps us handcraft a life that feels like home. I want a life that feels like home. A brave and beautiful life authentically …

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From My Heart to Yours: This is What I Have to Offer

4 December 2020

Hey, friends (we may not all know each other up close and personal but I’m calling you friend anyway), I want to share something that’s on my heart and that feels important to say. The reality of my life is that I am not in a position to hold space for others walking through suicide …

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How to Be a Wholehearted Human in a Messy World

22 November 2020

Inside: How to show up to your life wholeheartedly (or how to be a “wholehearted human”) in this messy, complicated world. This post contains referral links. About nine years ago, a friend gifted me with a copy of The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who …

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Just offer Your Small Gifts: It Will Be Enough

15 November 2020

Inside: When you think you have nothing left to give, or you always feel lacking and behind, but you offer the tiny bit of light you have, it will be enough. It will be enough. Whether you grew up in Sunday School or are religious or not, you may have heard a variation of this …

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7 Little but Powerful Reminders that I am Loved, Held, and Seen.

11 November 2020

Inside: Today, precisely when I needed them, I received 7 little love notes that remind me I am loved, held, and I am seen. I’ve included a few referral links to books you might appreciate. The past couple of weeks have been rough. Or, if I’m telling the fuller truth, the past couple of years …

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Every Breath of My Life is Political

8 November 2020

Inside: From the books I read, how I spend my money or teaching my children about the beauty of their diversity – my whole life is political. I have always believed we are more alike than different and that our diversity is beautiful, not just healthy but needed, something that is meant to both inspire …

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Permission to Fail Builds Strength and Courage

1 October 2020

Inside: Permission to fail builds strength and courage and helps us experience life through the lens of curiosity and joy rather than fear. This post is partially excerpted from 12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life and includes referral links. You’ve probably heard the term “resilience” before: It’s an important concept …

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