Make space for joy amid the messiness of life
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 …
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: Building a right-sized life means a made from scratch, handcrafted, customized life that is honest, authentic, and helps us walk out each day on purpose. My right-sized life includes soulful simplicity. Yours can too. This post contains relevant referral links. I’m not convinced life has to be as complicated as we make it. We …
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: Whether on the mountaintop or in a valley, we can live a life of purpose. One moment at a time. Here are 5 tenets for living a life of purpose. I put in a great deal of energy thinking through my direction and primary goals for the new year. I spent many hours in …
Inside: Living an unbalanced life means embracing ebb and flow and the delightful truth that building a joyful life does not require perfection. I didn’t know in my 20s that much of my pain and anxiety was rooted in perfectionism and never feeling good enough. I didn’t understand in my 30s that staying up too …
Inside: For a happy life you might choose to joyfully disregard much of the wisdom du jour. Here are 9 “bad habits” that make me delightfully happy. This post contains referral links. I prefer to leave my bed unmade until bedtime and happily hang out braless and in pj’s much of the day. I think …
Inside: Clutter is any excess in life or emotional baggage that weighs us down, distracts from our purpose, or robs us of joy and mind-body-spirit health. 7 reasons your life is cluttered and what to do about it. My husband and I moved 9 times in the first 11 years that we were married. We …
Inside: How might you slow down and make space for a joy-filled, simple Christmas that is, above all, about delighting in these people you share life with? It’s one of my favourite childhood memories. Each Christmas Eve after late mass, fun snacks, and opening one gift each, the little kids and my dad were tucked into …
Inside: This is a guest post by Lisa Avellan of Simple & Soul. It wasn’t about my stuff, it was only ever about my soul. All simplicity wants is to shine a light on my soul so my soul can shine too. I wasn’t a hoarder, but my home overflowed with “just in case stuff” …
Inside: One of the clearest signs that life has gotten off track a bit is the feeling that I’m wearing someone else’s shoes or trying to walk in their path. 10 ways I plan to keep life simple moving forward. It’s easy to complicate life despite our best intentions. We live with competing tensions and …
