Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Season 2, episode 2 of The Rebranding Middle Age Podcast. All or nothing thinking keeps us stuck in lack. It keeps us stuck in the story that ‘when’ circumstances align perfectly then we’ll be happy, love ourselves, start writing, etc. But if you’re open to living with more joy, then I recommend that you …
Inside: Choosing simplicity in life will help you live on purpose in every season. Even the hardest of them. I’ve shared 10 great questions to ask yourself when life is messy! Building a right-sized life means one that is authentically aligned to your True Self, your wiring, needs, desires, life stage, values, and sense 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: Can we unlearn busy and learn to slow down instead? Guest author Julia Ubbenga spent a year in Spain and shares the lessons she learned from the Spanish culture about a slower pace of life. The way I viewed time shifted in 2007. It was the year I quit my desk job, threw some …
Inside: This is a guest post from Jennifer of Simply + Fiercely. After years of struggling with my all or nothing personality, I finally began making peace with slow progress and this is what I’ve learned so far. Yesterday, I was tidying up my desk and I came across a to-do list that I’d written …
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: 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: When my heart starts rushing forward, I pull it back tenderly and remind it that today is still summer. Tomorrow will care for itself. “August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They Sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.” Jonathan Safran Foer What …
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 …
Inside: In seasons of transition one of the wisest things we can do is rest and allow ample space to restore before stepping into what’s next. This post includes referral links. It’s easy to become distracted or discouraged, forget truths we once knew, or begin doubting ourselves and the path we are on. But sometimes life …
Inside: In our focus on the future, planning, dreaming, working hard to get ahead we can forget to live present here in this day. We can easily overlook the joy in the simple things. When I was a teenager I dreamed of leaving home and beginning a career. In College, I wrote out 5 and …
