Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
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: 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 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 …
We know that to accomplish a goal it must be broken down into small intentional steps. To build a home you first dig and lay a foundation. To live on purpose you have to get up each day and do all or something. All or something. All or some small thing. Because small thing after small …
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: 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: There is no perfect way to simplify life and perfection is the enemy of progress. Choose to accept imperfect progress, embrace your own beautifully unique journey and find freedom in the letting go. This is a guest post from Julianna Poplin of The Simplicity Habit. Six years ago, I started reading books about simplifying …
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: 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: Live with fewer “shoulds,” more freedom; less hustle, more curiosity; less jumping through hoops, more putting your feet up to read. For years I sought out kindred spirits or wisdom-filled guides for how to live an intentional but simple lifestyle in books and later the internet. If they were raising chickens I wondered if …
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 …
Inside: Building a family can feel at times like a long journey, with many hurdles. But the truth is, they grow up so fast. From homemade playdough to driving lessons. Sometimes it feels as though these big changes happened in the blink of an eye. I never realized they’d grow up this fast. 21 years ago, …
