I’m emerging from one of the most challenge seasons of my life. A season of profound healing, pain, and rebirth. A time I wouldn’t have chosen and yet am profoundly grateful to have experienced nonetheless.
There will be times when life takes you to your knees, when the air leaves...
I met God again yesterday.…on my knees, wracked with sobs and anger and smeared mascara and equal parts fuck you and thank you and I love you in the same flustered breath.
This is where I always meet him… at my edges, once I finally relinquish my death grip of control. I...
Carl Jung said, “the world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
The world told me to be pleasant, to be quiet, to be hard working, selfless, and above all good. I not only became who the world asked me to be, I excelled at it. For over 3 decades...
Once upon a time there was a good girl. A brown haired, brown eyed Midwestern girl who loved her family, went to Sunday school, used her manners and ate her broccoli. She spent her free time basking in the the warmth of approval and checking off accomplishments on the path to success. Good...
Being a mom isn't easy.
Being a mom with big, entrepreneurial dreams is harder still.
We want so much to create and achieve something that is our own. Something we can taste and touch and breathe life into...something that allows us to feel needed and special and powerful outside the...
3 POWERFUL QUESTIONS TO TAKE BACK CONTROL WHEN LIFE FEELS OUT OF CONTROL
“What matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.”
Just like that I’m drowning again.
I’m thrashing...
WHAT IS YOUR IDENTITY BUILT UPON?
“What if the reason we feel so lost has little do with motherhood and everything to do with the fact we never really knew ourselves to begin with?.” Emilie Karun
At 12 years old I woke to an alarm before dawn. I hopped off the top bunk, quiet...
WHEN YOU HAVE IT ALL AND WANT MORE?
“When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.” Robert Brault
I’m not sure when I started to slip away, when I started to fade from my own life like the Kodachrome in an old photograph, but slip away I did....
FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAYS
The day I enrolled in my first online course I sobbed. It was $500 but might as well have been $50,000. I was terrified. Was I worth this level of personal investment? The day I launched my passion project, a blog for moms who wanted more out of motherhood, I was...
