Remember Your Way to Freedom
You are enough: reconnect with your true self, embrace your imperfection, live rooted in self-compassion, and become your own best friend.
You are imperfect and in progress and you may at times feel broken or in pain – but this is simply because you are human in a messy world. We all struggle and you are not alone. Learning to embrace your imperfection, to live deeply rooted in self-compassion and become your own best friend, brings freedom. Like a deep, extended exhale. Deciding once and for all that you are enough frees up energy to create, play, connect, rest, do work that scares you and lights you up, or otherwise build a life you want to wake up to each morning. It helps you feel safe and at home in your body and your life.
You are not your ego or personality – these are your learned defense mechanisms – the way you learned to feel safe, belong, or get your needs met. Reconnect with your true self underneath all the conditioning and fear, the learned patterns of thought and behaviour. You’ll find freedom here as you peel away what no longer serves, come home to yourself, and begin owning and walking in the beautiful truth of who you are.
You don’t have to look or sound or feel or live like anyone else – who you are is needed. Celebrate the beauty of diversity. BE you. Offer your light. Show up fully to life in every season. Handcraft a life that feels like home.
Inside: There are so many ways to build a beautiful life. There are many paths to get to joy and there are many routes to wholeness. There is more than one right way to be human. TW: grief, child loss The shift from summer to autumn is hard on my mind, body, and soul. My …
Inside: Craft a hope map for a brave and beautiful life: There are countless ways to handcraft a brave and beautiful life but if the Brave + Beautiful Community has piqued your curiosity, you can reach out for a chat to ask questions, or learn more and register here. We’ll begin a new session in …
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 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. COME HOME I am more …
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: 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: 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 time of life between about 37-45 (ish) years of age is an important and often uncomfortable time of transition and development …
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: Handcraft a Beautiful Life, a “right-sized life” that feels like home. I want a life that feels like home. A brave and beautiful life authentically aligned to my unique wiring, needs, desires, life stage, values, and sense of purpose. I’m not looking for a fairy tale ideal but a life that involves truth-telling, questioning, …
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: From the books I read, how I spend my money or teaching my children about the beauty of their diversity – my whole life is political. I have always believed we are more alike than different and that our diversity is beautiful, not just healthy but needed, something that is meant to both inspire …
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. Why Resilience Matters You’ve probably heard the term “resilience” before: It’s …
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. 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 my desire to keep the …
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 an act of violence against the self. —Iyanla Vanzant Comparison is at the root of much of our discomfort, distraction, and dissatisfaction. It pulls us out of being present …
Inside: Perfectionism can drown us. It’s not all on us. We don’t control everything and everyone, no matter how much we care or love or how hard we work. One of the biggest struggles of my life is releasing my grip on needing, desperately needing, life to be orderly, tidy, safe. I spent my life …
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. We will never experience true freedom while we deny people …
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 …
Being human is weird. On the one hand, I have always desperately longed for family, belonging, and acceptance. Yet there is a fire inside of me (thank you mama) that will not allow me to settle for status quo. I am wired to push, question, dig, wrestle, wish I could make life easier on myself, …
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 we 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: 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 …
