Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Journey to Freedom – there’s an inextricable connection between truth-telling and unshackled living. We cannot know freedom without being real. And freedom is, largely (NOT solely), an inside job. This post includes a referral link. My intuition or inner voice is telling me to allow this season of my life to be less about to-do’s …
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 …
Sensitive content: In this post I speak to child loss and early grief. 10 months ago, I lost one of my favourite people. A kindred spirit (though he’d roll his eyes at that). At 23, my son Jairus had his own best friends, but he was one of mine. He made my life better, more …
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 …
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: We need PERMISSION TO FEEL and the ability to name emotion in order to move through it and choose a healthy response. This post contains helpful resources along with an affiliate link. The vulnerable work of moving toward wholeness or integration, of examining our identity and embracing the fullness of who we are and …
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: We have to be the change. We have millions of small choices to make as we walk about our ordinary life that determine how we’ll help build a kinder, safer world for everyone. A Message From My Mother’s Heart on Mother’s Day weekend, 2020. My heart hurts. How is it that we still live …
Life calls me over and over again to loosen my grip, release, exhale, make space for the essential and let go of all the rest. I don’t want this. What I WANT is for life to feel easy and allow me to follow all my shiny ideas, to say yes to far more like book …
10 Lessons I Want to Pass Down to my Daughters 1. Colour is beautiful. Diversity is beautiful and needed. 2. Strength can look like keeping yourself together as you overcome really hard stuff, it can look like living in integrity even when there are consequences, strength can also look like feeling afraid, needing help, loving …
Inside: Forced or willingly there come times in life when our familiar ground falls away and we are thrust into turbulence or transition. These 5 habits can help you show up with strength and resilience if you must begin again. In times of turbulence or transition, the structure and flow of our daily life shifts, …
Inside: Growth is messy and it takes courage to become who you really are. But doing this hard, stretching work leads to freedom and a sense of rootedness and calm. These three keys are essential to intentional, sustainable growth. As funny as it sounds, it can take decades for us to become who we really …
Inside: Walking each other home is a privilege. Here are 19 bittersweet gifts I’ve picked up as I walked alongside my son through the final year of his life. Sensitive Content: in this post I speak to child loss, suicide loss, and severe depression On a cold wintry night, just over a year ago, my …
Sensitive Content: suicide, depression, grief I’m choosing to process some of my grief out loud. First, it is helping me when I feel like I’ll explode with rage or pain. Second, maybe it’ll help another parent feel less alone. This is a very personal journey. Please click away if reading about someone else’s loss – and …
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 …
Sensitive Content: Suicide, Depression, Child Loss My beautiful son’s life has ended after a long, brave, ferocious battle with severe depression and persistent suicidal ideation. He wanted to live. Wanting to live and knowing how are two different things. And mental illness, just like cancer, is not something we choose. It is not shameful or …
Inside: Holding space for self means offering time and permission to be and feel what we need to feel in this moment without pressure or judgement. I was in a bad car accident yesterday and by all accounts should not have walked away spirit and body bruised but whole and very much alive. It’s hard …
Inside: Stop waiting for easy or perfect – life is messy but you are strong and brave enough to walk through each challenge or obstacle you face. This a guest post by Angie Schultz of The Becoming Place. Is everything going to be okay? How often have you said those words? Most of us have repeated …
Inside: I say yes to all of life and this includes saying yes to the soul-stretching and messy, get-your-hands-dirty kind of work required for showing up fully to life in every season, and in process I learn that I am brave. When I keep my eyes on my own path and give myself permission to …
Inside: You haven’t missed the boat. If you’re one of the many late bloomers, it’s not too late. You can reinvent yourself and build a life you love. This post contains referral links. This a guest post by Emma Scheib of Simple Slow Lovely. I have always been a late bloomer. Not in the physical …
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: Self-care is always important yet easily neglected. In painful seasons of life when it feels like we’re drowning it can feel incredibly hard to see our way forward. These 7 self-care practices help me show up when life is painful. This post may contain referral links. The choice to keep living fully as we …
