Make space for joy amid the messiness of life
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. Sensitive Content: Suicide, grief, child loss The agony was intense …
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. Sensitive content: grief, child loss, suicide I took …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
