Journey to freedom, health and joy
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: Life is messy but we can show up afraid. Joy and pain coexist in a brave and beautiful life. As we stop waiting to feel ready or for life to feel neat and tidy, and learn to show up through fear, grief, or pain, our experience of life changes. Real-life is messy. A joyful, meaningful, brave …
Inside: It’s never too late – whatever your experience or season of life, you can build a new pattern and learn how to overcome fear in life. Fear is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s a common human emotion designed to keep us safe. Our nervous system constantly scans our internal and external environment looking …
Inside: A full, meaningful, beautiful life will also be a messy life. Ask yourself these 7 meaningful questions and then practice imperfect action to bravely bring your vision your life. Your joy is not dependent upon perfect circumstances. Your worth is not dependent on looking, sounding, or showing up like anyone else. And a brave …
Adorn your life in color, or don’t, if that feels good. Dance in the streets, laugh loudly, heal loudly, hope loudly. Take up all the space you need, and dare to love the skin you’re in. Wear joy as resilience and resistance. But also wear joy because it feels good and pleasure is not a …
Inside: Choosing simplicity in life requires mindful intention — it definitely won’t happen on it’s own in this ‘more and faster is better’ culture. A question I ask myself regularly is ‘how can I let this be simpler or easier?’ I’m wired for slow and simple and also it doesn’t take much to complicate my …
Inside: All of you is welcome here. Stop bullying, shaming, and fighting against yourself. Accept your whole self and befriend your inner critic in order to live in wholeness, freedom + joy. “All of you is welcome here.” This is my new favorite saying in life and work. When I hear this spoken what rings …
Inside: Diversity is beautiful and needed. When each of us honours our wiring and operates in our strengths we form a beautiful whole. Have fun with this short quiz and identify which of these 5 plants or fungi most feel like you! I like messy people. Colourful, honest, owning the truth of who they are …
Inside: Parenting is hard on the ego and challenges us to confront our own wounding. What helps, regardless of their age, is to become a student of your children. This post contains referral links. Our children arrive a unique bundle of personality and passion, hardwired for strength and struggle. Parenting is hard on the ego, …
Inside: What it means to hold space, how to know if you’re the right person to hold space for another, and 5 ways to hold space without losing yourself in the process. I include details about holding space for my son as he fought for life. This post includes referral links. As I advocated for …
Inside: In the liminal space of emerging from winter into spring, it’s important to resist urgency, to give ourselves ample space and nourishment and compassionate tending as we slowly unfurl. This is the third time I’ve been sick in the past five months. I didn’t get sick once all the years I was advocating for …
Inside: If you’ve ever felt stuck in fear or pain, if you’ve spent time hiding or procrastinating on what matters most to you, if you’ve felt despondent about the state of your life or the world, learning how to practice fierce self-compassion will help. This post includes referral links. Fierce self-compassion is what helped me …
Inside: I felt a call to come home to myself. An invitation to stop running, trying to belong or find my place in the world, permission to remember and own the full, messy, glorious truth of who I am. Not who I used to be or how I wished I could be. I choose to …
Inside: Learning empowering ways of navigating stress puts us back into the driver’s seat when our life feels unmoored or shaken. We can continue building our resilience toolbox so we can show up brave, whole, and on purpose in every season (even the hardest of them). This post contains referral links. Learning empowering ways of …
Inside: When you’re stressed out remember your stress reactions are biologically the same whether it’s to literally save your life or if your stress is due to a triggering, annoying, or frustrating situation. That’s not your fault. That’s biology. This post contains a referral link. We can’t avoid all stress (not to mention that not …
Inside: What you need to know about stress: This is part one in a three-part series to help you feel more empowered as you navigate stressful life experiences. Would you agree that right now life feels more hectic and stressful than ever? That there are fewer times when you feel amazing in-the-moment clarity and confidence …
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: How to create a chain reaction of good habits. Learn why healthy habits are far more effective at making lasting change than willpower, motivation, and self-control. Habits are what turn hope into action. Have you ever tried to make a change, but no matter how hard you tried or willed yourself to change you …
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: How to build boundaries with yourself that honour your wiring and help you live a fulfilling and meaningful life that feels true to who you are and what you want. This post includes referral links. Boundaries are necessary for all relationships – work, kids, friends, and with ourselves. Building and honoring brave boundaries is …
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: Why is sleep so very important? What are the phases of sleep and what does “quality sleep” actually look like? How much is “enough quality sleep”? How does it do these amazing things for health and wellness? And, most importantly, how can you get better sleep? Rest matters. A lot. Yet THE most important …
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: 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. Sensitive Content: grief, child loss The shift from summer to autumn is hard on my mind, body, and soul. …
