Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
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 …
Inside: I am no longer afraid of being imperfect or less-than and more afraid of missing my life because I am constantly wishing it away. I find calm here in the space of in-between. Once upon a time I learned to make peace with my imperfection. This is what it took for me to learn …
Inside: there are four interconnected, life-giving lessons I’ve learned which allow me to walk with intention and joy today. They require practice, conscious choice, and remind me that I alone get to decide that this simple, imperfect life of mine is more than enough. As my 40th birthday approached, I sensed that change was coming my …
Inside: 5 practices to help you lift your mood up once again. We all experience low mood though some people seem to struggle more with this than others. It is so important to remember that you are worthy of love and acceptance in spite of your struggle and that you are worth fighting for! Truth …
Inside: It’s easy to get caught up in watching what others are doing – aligning with their vision, living their dream, following in their brave footsteps instead of owning the truth of what we want and need and working with our wiring, not against. I’m hard-wired for slow and simple. Partly by nature, partly for …
Before my eyes fully open, I feel the call to hurry. The whisper of not enough time, too far behind, how will I ever keep up. I hide under the covers a while longer, procrastinating, ruminating, unwilling to spend another day spinning wildly like the frenetic, unhappy, world around me. I want to be still. …
One day, shortly after the birth of my third child, I made the decision to love myself. I was done trying to mould my body or beautiful, quirky self into a tiny, ill-fitting box. I’ve been showing up and practicing this decision every single day for the past 12 years. Living like we love ourselves, speaking …
Inside: What if we accept that a beautiful and meaningful life is messy and we stop looking for perfect so that we can embrace the real life in front of us. Life is messy. We create weekly rhythms and chore charts, financial goal sheets and healthy menus that take into account everyone’s preferences. We do date …
Inside: Self-care tips to help you stay healthy in the darker months: I love the flitting beauty of fall but if I’m to weather well the long dark months of winter, I must thoughtfully prepare. My physical and mental wellness depends upon it. This post contains some carefully chosen referral links. The rain comes down, …
This is a guest post from Evelyn Rennich of smallishblog.com The beautiful thing about a life in progress is that it is in motion, ever changing with each season. A life in progress means we can’t ever claim to have arrived or that we have it all figured out. Much freedom lies in admitting to …
Choosing a simpler or slower life, an intentional life, can feel like hard slogging at the start. It means going against the grain, forming new habits and mindsets, choosing to practice patience when the process takes time. Picking ourselves up over and over again when we fall off the proverbial wagon. The journey of a …
Inside: I propose that periods of aimless idle behavior or flânerie, are necessary for a life of purpose. We cannot go full steam forever. We cannot endlessly produce with joy without time to slow and notice and absorb from our surroundings. We cannot consistently serve others without periods of being nourished ourselves. flâ·ne·rie (noun): aimless …
