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

4 December 2020 by [email protected]

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

11 November 2020 by [email protected]

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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The Curious Ways that Constraints Unlock Creativity

13 September 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Choosing to get curious when faced with limitations allows us to shift away from judgment into joyful possibility. This post contains referral links. Have you ever experienced the serendipity of how an unexpected lesson from a book or movie in exactly the right moment leads to a podcast that leads to a conversation that …

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Resource Recommendations for Your Life in Progress

7 September 2020 by [email protected]

On this page, I offer a thoughtfully curated collection of favourite resource recommendations to help you show up fully to your life in progress. This post contains referral links. I’ve set a boundary for myself of 7 resource recommendations per section – hard work! The decision to exclude fiction from this list is rooted in …

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A Life in Progress is Having a Birthday!

29 August 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: As I celebrate the 5th birthday of A Life in Progress I reflect on the journey and on all the people who have come alongside and helped me keep going. I witness my strength and look forward with curiosity and hope. Five years ago, A Life in Progress officially came to life as I …

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Small Things

22 August 2020 by [email protected]

We know that to accomplish a goal it must be broken down into small intentional steps. To build a home you first dig and lay a foundation. To live on purpose you have to get up each day and do all or something. All or something. All or some small thing. Because small thing after small …

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What Surrender Sounds & Feels Like 9 Months after Child Loss

8 August 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Child loss is excruciating. Letting go feels like creating a safe and special corner of my mind and heart in which to gather and house my memories and love for my son so that I have some room left for hope and joyful possibility. TW: Suicide, grief, child loss The agony was intense but …

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Tell The Truth: Your Life May Depend Upon It

24 July 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Yesterday marked nine months since his death. Nine months can feel like a lifetime or the blink of an eye. Enough time to help create and birth new life but not enough time for my heart, mind, or spirit to figure out how to say goodbye. TW: grief, child loss, suicide Nine months can …

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How to Quiet the Noise Of Comparison in Your Life

20 June 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Comparison tells you that you’re not good enough. The way you are is bad. It’s destructive and soul-destroying. And it is a liar. Comparison is at the root of much of our discomfort, distraction, and dissatisfaction. It pulls us out of being present to our lives and into our heads, worrying about what others …

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Show Up Imperfectly On Purpose to the Messy and Beautiful Life in Front of You

15 May 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: In just one heartbeat life can change forever so I choose to live each day as though it could be my last, imperfectly on purpose I declutter my life to make space for what I truly want and need. Despite the imperfection, grief, and messiness of it all, I love and feel deeply grateful …

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Slow Down and Lie on the Couch all Weekend

10 April 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: For happiness and a full beautiful life, it’s essential that we slow down and make space for purposeful rest and that we learn what it means to honour our wiring for a soul-sustaining life. We can’t pour out what we don’t first pour in. For years I repeated a cycle of ignoring my body …

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Simple Moments Matter: On Building a Life

19 March 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: It’s easy to dismiss the ordinariness of life: game nights and favorite desserts, bedtime stories and bubble baths, or walking to the corner store for frosty slurpees after a sticky soccer match. But simple moments matter. When I was little, my dad took my sisters and I skidooing. We’d bundle up warmly and he’d …

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Embrace Imperfection or Real Life Will Never Be Enough

26 January 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Our real, messy lives will be “never enough” until we embrace imperfection and accept that we are not in control of it all. I opened up my inbox as I often do in the morning to sift through interesting articles and ideas, share some online, and save a seed or two of thought for …

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Trail of Myths: Finding Our Way to Enough

13 January 2020 by [email protected]

Inside: Finding our way to enough requires questioning our unhelpful stories, the myths that we believe. Enough can be elusive.. This is a guest post from Heidi Barr. Here the forest floor has a carpet of hepatica, trillium, bloodroot, dutchman’s breeches, and bellwort, a tangle of white, purple, yellow and green as spring blooms open …

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THERE IS NO PERFECT WAY TO SIMPLIFY LIFE

21 December 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: There is no perfect way to simplify life and perfection is the enemy of progress. Choose to accept imperfect progress, embrace your own beautifully unique journey and find freedom in the letting go. This is a guest post from Julianna Poplin of The Simplicity Habit. Six years ago, I started reading books about simplifying …

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Ordinary Magic: 3 Journaling prompts

15 November 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: I think magic comes in the ordinary – for those willing to see. Do you want more space or permission to pause and notice the ordinary magic of your life? The streets are black apart from the meager light cast by the streetlamps. But this is more than enough light to illuminate the sparkle …

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

15 September 2019 by [email protected]

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 …

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How I Simplify and Leverage the Strengths of Social Media

2 August 2019 by [email protected]

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 …

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You Don’t Have to Be Fine

12 July 2019 by [email protected]

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 …

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48 Happy Things for my 48th Birthday

9 July 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: I’m turning 48 and each year as I approach my birthday I pause to reflect and redirect. This year I chose to craft a list of happy things that I want to acknowledge and express gratitude for. This post contains some referral links. I’m turning 48 tomorrow. Birthdays are a lovely time for self-reflection. …

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Are These 12 Lies Keeping You From a Creative Life?

5 May 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: These 12 lies keep many people stuck and can hold us back from building a creative and purposeful life. This post may contain referral links. Most mornings I wake up drippy with gratitude and delight for this imperfect and beautiful life of mine. I can hardly believe how fortunate I am to connect with …

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Shift Course and Build a Life You Actually Want

19 April 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: It is so easy to get caught up in what others are doing or who we think we ought to be. It’s easy to feel caught in the tension of competing desires. You need to do some truth-telling and sift through competing tensions and desires in order to build a life that you actually …

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Living a Life of Purpose Does Not Require Perfection

19 March 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: Whether on the mountaintop or in a valley, we can live a life of purpose. One moment at a time. Here are 5 tenets for living a life of purpose. I put in a great deal of energy thinking through my direction and primary goals for the new year. I spent many hours in …

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The Joy and Delight of an Unbalanced Life

15 March 2019 by [email protected]

Inside: Living an unbalanced life means embracing ebb and flow and the delightful truth that building a joyful life does not require perfection. I didn’t know in my 20s that much of my pain and anxiety was rooted in perfectionism and never feeling good enough. I didn’t understand in my 30s that staying up too …

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