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Life’s Burdens and Why You Need Them
Do you ever fool yourself into thinking, “As soon as life settles down I’ll be able to ___________.” ? For so many years I functioned from this myth that peace and progress only come during calm...
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Can You Do Both?
Is developing your talents and being a dedicated mother mutually exclusive? Sometimes it feels that way. We have generations of women who have nobly set a standard of sacrifice, putting everything on...
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Favorite Bits of Wisdom
My favorite bits of wisdom this week: On Burn Out: “We don’t get burned out by giving too much – we get burned out when we feel like all our hard work is not making a difference in people’s lives....
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What can you accomplish when you convert to positive thinking?
Watching this amazing feat last night was completely inspiring to me. What impressed me more than the fact that this man walked an unprotected tight rope strung across the Chicago City skyline (one...
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Start Life Over
New Years always reminds me of my favorite Anne of Green Gables quote. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it?” A clean slate. Full of possibility, potential, and...
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Learning to Love the Process
Last year I picked the word “Practice” for my word for 2014. Too often I can become discouraged with each mistake or failed attempt, or “no attempt” at my goals. I’ve often lived with a flawed...
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Every Branch
I’ve been hinting at this for a little while now, but I can finally show you a teaser! And direct you somewhere online! For the past year, me and my fabulous friend Sarah Bray, have been designing a...
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MAGIC PENNIES
If your day is anything like mine, it’s filled up with dozens of very small things, and when we only make an inch of progress everyday, sometimes it can get discouraging. I recently stumbled upon the...
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Help for Thinking Positive
I stumbled upon two interesting videos this week, though completely unrelated, I think they pair together quite nicely. Dove released a new commercial this week that centers on women’s thoughts about...
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On Gratitude, Vulnerability, and Courage
I stumbled upon this podcast episode recently. It’s actually an older episode dated back to 2012, but when you have content this good, it is ALWAYS relevant. I already have deep respect for Brene Brown...
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Treat Yourself With Kindness
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” -Goethe This applies to yourself as well! In fact, starting with you is the perfect...
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What is Your Calling?
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others...
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Take Time to Get Away
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” Barbara de Angelis I loved the recent advice I heard from Greg McKeown, author of...
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The Value of Time
So what constitutes “Apply it well”? I think I’ve had a false impression on what well spent time actually looks like. So often in the pursuit of life balance, I get trapped into thinking of life as a...
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You Are Good for People
“I realized that one of the reasons I’d been so isolated was because I’d subconsciously believed I wasn’t all that good for people. It’s true what I’m saying. If our identity gets broken, it affects...
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You are Enough
This crazy world of comparison can often make it hard to believe that who we are is already amazing. As I have studied the topic of identity this year, one of my most surprising discoveries for me has...
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How to discern your intuition
I had a great mentoring session with my spiritual mentor last night. She taught me that when I intentionally seek guidance from my intuition, that the first thought is always right. the second thought...
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Write and Burn
Have you ever heard of the write and burn method? A spiritual mentor of mine introduced it to me this week. For years I have been doing Julia Cameron’s “Morning Pages” ritual, that consists of...
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How to Be Yourself
“You have never been taught to become you. You have been taught to become “somebody.”… We have been taught wrongly for all these years. We have never been taught to be peaceful or how to achieve peace...
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MAGIC PENNIES
If your day is anything like mine, it’s filled up with dozens of very small things, and when we only make an inch of progress everyday, sometimes it can get discouraging. I recently stumbled upon the...
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