Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Make space for more midlife joy as you strip away all the clutter and noise. Consider starting with these 30 things! Although midlife brings with it new challenges, it’s also true that for many of us, happiness rises as we befriend our True Selves and get better at honouring our wiring and the truth …
Inside: Honour your wiring in a noisy and busy world by crafting strategic, honest, and values-aligned goals that help you walk out your Life Vision. This post includes two lists of core values. Slow and steady is my favourite speed. A slow-moving body does not prevent me from being a vision-oriented person and skilled at …
Inside: Should you quit? An exploration of the the difference between pivoting and quitting and 9 questions to help you examine if you should quit or stay the course. This post includes referral links. I quit things all the time. I pivot, shift course, tweak, stay responsive to my body and life, and build a …
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: This is what it looks and sounds like to be brave and weary and here’s how I can help you remember your way to freedom. I work as a Joyful Living Educator and writer yet I spend a lot of time talking and writing about pain, struggle, loss, anxiety, and emotional growth. This is …
Inside: I write my way to freedom in messy lists, hopeful reminders, and unfancy reflections that quiet the cacophony of fear and despair. This post may contain affiliate links. Being proud of ourselves – of our bravery, courage, persistence, and strength is not bragging and it is not self-centered. It is important, critical even, to …
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 …
Inside: Yesterday marked nine months since his death. Nine months can feel like a lifetime or the blink of an eye. Enough time to help create and birth new life but not enough time for my heart, mind, or spirit to figure out how to say goodbye. Sensitive content: grief, child loss, suicide I took …
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: We have to be the change. We have millions of small choices to make as we walk about our ordinary life that determine how we’ll help build a kinder, safer world for everyone. A Message From My Mother’s Heart on Mother’s Day weekend, 2020. My heart hurts. How is it that we still live …
Inside: For happiness and a full beautiful life, it’s essential that we slow down and make space for purposeful rest and that we learn what it means to honour our wiring for a soul-sustaining life. We can’t pour out what we don’t first pour in. For years I repeated a cycle of ignoring my body …
Inside: Growth is messy and it takes courage to become who you really are. But doing this hard, stretching work leads to freedom and a sense of rootedness and calm. These three keys are essential to intentional, sustainable growth. As funny as it sounds, it can take decades for us to become who we really …
