A Life In Progress®
Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
You are living brave, whole, and with joy and have handcrafted a brave and beautiful life. It’s imperfect (because that’s real life!) but it’s also intentional and values-aligned. You practice Seasonal living, make space for purposeful rest. Space for the beauty and wisdom in every season.
You are the expert on your own life. You like and love yourself well. You look inward for direction more often than outward. You live with less fear about the ups and downs of life; with peace about the messiness of life. You recognize your strength and resilience. You look back proud and amazed at how far you’ve come. You offer your gifts. You celebrate with others in their success and joy and sit with them in their sorrow without bypassing, advice-giving, or trying to fix.
You look ahead at what’s next and to set your course but then pull your mind and heart back to today. You feel safe and at home in your body and your life, good in the skin you’re in. Balanced awareness. Deep roots. Permission for rest, play, pleasure AND doing hard things. You both benefit from and contribute meaningfully to the B+B. Life is always messy and offers up new challenges and invitations to growth. You feel fully alive.
Growth or becoming our most honest and healthy selves is more circular than linear and there is no one-size-fits-all, clear cut road map to wholeness, purpose, and joy for every human. Each new season of life invites us to journey deeper, to stay open to joyful possibility and learn to sit with discomfort and uncertainty, to build upon the scaffolding of yesterday, to make new connections and increase in wisdom and understanding. But don’t quit – you’re on your way to a brave and beautiful life.
Do you find yourself in a season of life—or transitioning from one season to another—where you are asking, “What is my purpose?” It’s easy to get stuck thinking purpose has to be found in one big answer. In reality, purpose is often quieter and more personal than that. It is something we sense, shape, and …
Inside: I walk you through the steps of a yearly, seasonal, and weekly review that will support you in living intentionally. I also share resources that will support you along the way. Want to live on purpose? Yearly, seasonal, and weekly reviews are essential for an intentional, soul-honouring life. The regular reviews mean that you …
Inside: Learn what a mantra is, examples of powerful mantras, and how choosing a mantra can guide your personal growth this year. Choosing a mantra to guide you for a year involves a dance between intuition or listening inward to our inner wisdom, and a commitment to consistent practical action. Listening inward, or setting aside …
Inside: Learning how to practice true rest in each season of life is one form of learning to trust the wisdom of your body. Learn new ideas for how to practice true rest in your 40s, 50s, and 60s. Rest comes in many forms (beyond naps or quality sleep). And our precise rest needs change …
Inside: I’ve had three core dreams for my life. They give me a clear sense of purpose and direction. I’ve learned to release urgency and let things unfold in their own time. In this post I also share about how simple a “Life Vision” can be and how I use mantras. It’s early 2025 and …
Inside: Learning to honour your wiring and capacity helps quiet all the internal and external noise so that you thrive and experience health and joy in every season. It also supports healthier families and communities. You’ll learn 14 ways to get started. Western culture promotes a linear, constantly productive, ‘more and faster is better’ way …
Inside: The people you spend the most time with determine who you become. Here are 28 books to read as you grow into your True Self. Referral links included. You know the adage that we become like the 5 people we spend the most time with so choose wisely? I like to apply this idea …
Inside: Change is hard in general. And being thrust into a dark season of life can be painful and scary. But sometimes, what feels incredibly stretching can facilitate personal liberation and greater self-love. Today’s guest shares about her liberating self-discovery journey after hitting a dark and low point in her early 50s. “It was painful, …
Inside: To avoid stagnation we must keep expanding, stretching, learning as we go. We must be willing to let go of how life used to be so that we can keep living fully and mine for the wisdom and beauty in every season. Do you feel like you’re outgrowing your old life or how you …
Inside: Betsy shares about living creatively and hopefully and building a beautiful life with Functional Neurological Disorder and what her experience feels like in this season. If you don’t fit neat and tidy into the prescribed ‘boxes’ of ‘success’ or you’re wired differently than the majority, life might feel challenging. It takes creativity – and …
Inside: It’s empowering to figure out your core values. You live on purpose by walking out your values in every season. This post includes my favourite Wise Woman exercise which can help us begin with the end in mind. I want to live on purpose in every season, and every day of my life. This …
Inside: One of the most life-changing habits that I have adopted is weaving a seasonal living practice throughout my life and work. Seasonal living teaches us a kinder way of being in our body and life. Happy spring! If you want to quiet the noise and practice a kinder way of being in your body …
Inside: Healthy and brave relationships are so important to our health and wellbeing. But they take work. Relationships in middle age can be messy. They take work and nurturing at every stage of life. But in middle age – yikes! If you’re growing, healing, becoming your most honest and integrated Self… this will affect your …
Inside: How to make space for more rest in your life – whatever season you’re in, including the hardest of them. In this episode I refer to 8 Types of Rest that we all need. We all need rest, probably more than we’re getting. Expanding our view of rest beyond naps or Netflixing is helpful …
Inside: 12 reasons midlife women don’t rest enough. May contain referral links. Why don’t you rest (or rest enough and in the ways that most restore you or fill you back up) ? In a culture that idolizes productivity, it can feel countercultural to make rest an essential part of our life and goals. But …
Inside: Learning to practice a cycle of self-awareness, self-compassion, and imperfect action will help you put down deep roots that hold you fast in the storms of life. To live on purpose – to handcraft a brave and beautiful life – to be anchored in the storms of life – you need deep roots. We …
Inside: We are all in progress and we need repetition to truly move a new truth from head into heart and then deeper into the body until it lives in our bones or becomes embodied truth. A common experience that comes up in my work is grief and self-judgment when a client or community member …
Inside: Home is sacred space. It is a buffer in a noisy and messy world. It’s a place to let down our guard and regulate our nervous systems. And home is where we can reconnect to ourselves and our inner voice. Home is sacred. A safe and loving home creates a sense of safety and …
Inside: Being your True Self int he world does NOT mean that everyone gets access to all of you. You get to prioritize your internal safety. Home is sacred space. It’s not the size or fanciness of home that matters. Feeling at home in our body and life is also sacred. We get to treat …
Inside: Instead of all-or-nothing try all-or-something! It just might change your life. All or nothing thinking keeps us stuck in lack. It keeps us stuck in the story that ‘when’ circumstances align perfectly then we’ll be happy, love ourselves, start writing, etc. But if you’re open to living with more joy, then I recommend that …
Inside: Joy feels risky. But I want you to know that you feeling joy matters for your own wellbeing. But your joy also makes the world better. “What if joy is not only entangled with pain, suffering, and sorrow but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things?” – …
Inside: Growth takes time. You can’t rush it. The work of this season is what prepares you for what’s coming next. After my son died, I was thrown head-first into a deep and dark winter season. The years that followed were incredibly painful and I longed for spring or light to come again. One day …
Inside: Performance and productivity do not prove your worth. You can opt out of hustle-culture (or at least not judge yourself by it). When I’m driving on the highway and someone zooms past me at high speed or weaves in and out of traffic to ‘get ahead’ I always wonder, “where are you rushing to?” …
Inside: We are wired for community and other people. But we also need to get creative about meeting our needs for community and connection. “We learn from an early age that ‘masked and armored’ is the safe and sane way to live” writes Parker Palmer in A Hidden Wholeness. We are wired for connection – …
