There’s a time when you’ve gone down a road long enough that you realize things won’t get any easier if they stay the same. Truthfully, most likely it won’t get any better either. When your head overpowers your heart and you live your life...
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...
Lately I’ve been hearing so many people, especially women, share how they’ve put everyone else ahead of themselves for so long that they’re not living the life they are meant to live. I’m wondering if that is happening to you. It’s...
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...
Sometimes you have to shift your focus a little to see what’s right in front of you. Since my daughter has been little, anytime she struggles to find something I’ve taught her to take a step back so she can get a new perspective. She knows that sometimes...
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...
Sometimes we have to learn things the hard way. The painful way. Most often it happens when we’ve been ignoring the whispers within that we’ve chosen to disregard. You see we are always receiving guidance – thoughts, gut feelings, strange...
So much goodness has been showing up lately. There have been so many different opportunities presenting themselves in the last two months especially, that mirror back to me how I am showing up in the world (and what I’m asking for). So many different...
I’d like to be transparent with you, if I could. This last year I’ve been taking a really close look at myself, my life, and what I want to experience moving forward. Much of what I found I am grateful for – there is so much to be thankful for in my life despite any...
