Have you ever had to do something that you’ve been dreading, but knew at some point you’d have to face head on? We all have those ‘things’ we avoid as long as possible until something happens that causes us to see things differently. I did one of the hardest things in...
You’ve felt it building for some time now. The pressure, working the long hours, the overwhelm and exhaustion, the resentment and sadness. It often feels as if there’s never enough time in the day to do the things you want to do, and you find yourself...
If you’ve ever felt captive in your own life, then this is for you. Every day, several times throughout each day, I had to put on a show. I felt like this orca. I had to suck it up and do what everyone wanted me to do. I had no choice if I wanted to survive. ...
When I am moving through any difficult time it often helps when I focus on finding the nugget. I’m referring to the nugget of gold that shines with the lesson of what I’m learning or how I’m growing by going through this particular uncomfortable situation. Sometimes...
Years ago I struggled with self-care. Actually, I still do to be truthful. I don’t always put myself first or take care of myself in the best ways. I often find myself at the bottom of my priority list and don’t always accomplish what I set out to do because of it....
There’s often a reluctance or a desperation that comes when you feel like you’ve tried everything else and nothing has worked for you. When all the quick fixes and promises of success fall to the ground you’re often left with the feeling of not even wanting to invest...
For longer than I’d like to think about, my life had gotten off track. Like so many others, my family experienced tremendous hardship when the economy fell in 2008. My husband lost his construction job. I supported our family with my income for the next year and...
So much of life cannot be controlled. Of course, we are not victims of circumstance but rather powerful creators in our own lives when we claim ownership for them. Yet things happen, for better or for worse, to us and for us. Sometimes those things are glorious and...
During the worst part of my husband’s drug addiction, I left. I gathered my courage, packed up our daughter, and drove across the country on the family vacation I had planned for months for all of us to enjoy. I was terrified and angry, devastated and determined, and...
There will always be a million perfectly good reasons why you can’t do something. Reasons why it’s not the right time, you aren’t ready, you don’t know how, or reasons and thoughts about what others would say or think. The list is endless....
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