Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: If you genuinely want to step off the hamster wheel and enjoy an unbusy life, then you will need to go nose to nose with fear. This post includes referral links. I had never felt that I fit well in this noisy, competitive, frenetic world; fear told me that I didn’t have what it …
Inside: There is freedom in a relationship with healthy boundaries. Boundaries are not a punishment but a kindness to you and those you love. The word boundaries sometimes has a negative connotation. There seems to be an idea that only stern or cold people are good at setting boundaries. Or that boundaries only need to …
Inside: Media offers us quick fixes, spiritual gurus sell us bypassing, our own fear nature beckons us to hide under the covers or jump on the next shiny bandwagon; all feel preferable to slow, soul-stretching, deep work. But sustainable growth takes time. Don’t rush who you’re becoming. In the summer each year I listen inward …
Inside: You don’t have to hunt for joy, manufacture it, or figure out how to lead a stress-free “perfect” life. You can ALLOW joy to live alongside whatever else you’re experiencing. You can WELCOME it into the messiness of your life in every season. You can learn to expand your capacity for joy. You don’t have …
Inside: This is real life – joy and pain, beauty and suffering, uncertainty and delight, messily woven together to form a beautiful whole. TW: grief, child loss, suicide loss I’ve spent this weekend in Calgary, AB, with my friend Kathy Escobar who flew in from Colorado so that we could hug and talk for hours, …
Inside: If you feel overwhelmed by life, one of the kindest and wisest things you can do is to gift yourself an abundance of rest. This post includes amazon referral links. In a culture that idolizes doing more, acquiring more, being more, and that conditions us to believe that our worth is tied to our …
Inside: Should you quit? An exploration of the the difference between pivoting and quitting and 9 questions to help you examine if you should quit or stay the course. This post includes referral links. I quit things all the time. I pivot, shift course, tweak, stay responsive to my body and life, and build a …
Inside: A collection of favourite resource recommendations to help you handcraft a compassionate and sustainable life. This post includes referral links. Books or story are one of the most beautiful gifts of this life. I often think and say these days that in another lifetime, I’d be a mythologist. Books, both fiction and non-fiction have …
Handcraft a hope map for a brave and beautiful life. Growth or becoming our most honest and integrated selves is more circular than linear (or more like a spiral). 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 …
Inside: It’s never too late to build the life you want, one that you’re delighted to show up to each day. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be yours. Isn’t it odd that we judge ourselves for not having life all figured out while we’re yet on the journey? We don’t …
Inside: I’m turning 50! The past decade of my life has been full of sorrow, emotional and physical pain, joy, adventure, growth, and day upon day of ordinary beauty. It all came tangled up together. I’ve decided to embrace it all. Sensitive Content: suicide, grief, depression The past decade has been a wild ride. As …
Inside: I sat down to write today and this poem came out. Recently my clients have been telling me that my work is helping them find their way home to themselves. A beautiful testimonial. The journey home is a hard and messy one but it’s also the path of freedom. This is who I am. …
Inside: How to navigate self-doubt in your creative life and work with gentleness and kindness. This is a guest post by Nicole Gullota. The post contains referral links. In my second year of college, I signed up for a publishing workshop where a handful of hopeful writers were eager to learn the secrets to securing …
Inside: We must build resilience to equip us for the storms of life. Every one of us will experience stress, loss, or hard life circumstances in varying degrees. This post offers 7 ways to build resilience in the storm. This post contains referral links. You’re imperfect. Life is messy. Show up anyway. This has been …
Inside: Find out if you’re a Highly Sensitive Person, why this REALLY matters, and learn how you can honour wiring if you are. This post may contain referral links. As a child and teen, I struggled with feeling like I wasn’t cut out for this world. My parents walked out their values by serving hurting …
Inside: This is what it looks and sounds like to be brave and weary and here’s how I can help you remember your way to freedom. I work as a Joyful Living Educator and writer yet I spend a lot of time talking and writing about pain, struggle, loss, anxiety, and emotional growth. This is …
Inside: Find your purpose through work and practice presence, even if your work and home life feel a bit chaotic in this season. This is a guest post from Ellie Roscher of 12 Tiny Things. Since last March, when the global pandemic bound us in our homes, I have been over-functioning. Throughout the Spring and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
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 …
