Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
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: 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: 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 …
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 We need models of what’s possible . Examples of courage, hope, strength. Women ahead …
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: 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: 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 …
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 …
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 …
