Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: How to befriend yourself: Self-awareness helps us show up to work, relationships, to all of life — with integrity and confidence. These 10 ideas will help you get to know yourself better and deepen your roots of self-awareness and self-compassion. This post may include affiliate links. I heard a quote recently on one of …
Inside: Living a busy life can make it appear that we are living full meaningful lives, when we are really just using busyness to avoid authenticity. A slower pace of life offers healing and wholeness from the addiction to busyness. This is a guest post by Emma Scheib. The post contains referral links. I have …
Inside: Comparison tells you that you’re not good enough. The way you are is bad. It’s destructive and soul-destroying. And it is a liar. The more we compare the unhappier we are. Comparison is at the root of much of our discomfort, distraction, and dissatisfaction. It pulls us out of being present to our lives …
Inside: I have found that living a life in progress means an ebb and flow of stepping out into the unknown – of progress and adventure, of becoming and stretching – and then finding my way home again. What getting back into the swimming pool is teaching me about slow-living and self-compassion. I have recently …
We gathered in the hospital room, taking our turns at his side. Whispering goodbyes that were wholly insufficient. And then he was gone. But it had been a year and a half of prognosis and treatment, of driving back and forth never knowing if this time would be the last I got to sit with …
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 …
I am breaking up with wine again. At least for 6 months, possibly forever. I can’t commit right now. I awoke early this morning knowing this is the day. But the truth is, over the past 5 years that I have been drinking any alcohol again, I have known many times that it was a bad idea for me. Though …
