Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
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: 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 …
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: 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’m feeling a call to go deeper, not wider this year; to simplify in work and life to make space for my deepest work and highest priorities. This post contains an affiliate link. I like this in-between space – the closing out of one year and slowly finding our way into the next. I …
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: 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 …
