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How To Transform Any Experience Into Personal Growth
Peek over my shoulder as I process my recent emotional speed bump through a step-by-step method designed to transform any experience into personal growth. Our lives are filled with both good and bad experiences. We can learn a lot from them, but only if we’re intentional about it.
20 Christmas Activity Ideas
Here is a list of Christmas activity ideas that doesn’t include Elf on a Shelf or watching a Christmas movie. Inject some fresh ideas into your holiday!
Five Keys to Keeping Christ in Christmas
It’s so easy to let our relationship with God get buried under the weight of the holiday season! Here are five keys to keeping Christ in Christmas!
10 Ways to Simplify Christmas Gift Giving
Gift giving can be overwhelming during the holiday season and it doesn’t have to be! Here are 10 ways to simplify your Christmas gift giving!
13 Ways to Simplify Thanksgiving Dinner
Does Thanksgiving stress you out? It doesn’t need to! Here are 13 ways to simplify Thanksgiving dinner so you can have the holiday you’ve always wanted!
Coping with an Emotional Speedbump
My boyfriend’s daughter’s wedding triggered a surprise emotional breakdown. Learn how I coped with it and where you can turn to handle wayward emotions..
Dress Shopping and Cultural Influence
In the last twelve months, I’ve purchased one fancy dress. In the last two weeks, I’ve purchased twelve…and returned them all. I have a wedding to attend next weekend and I’m attending as the date of the father of the bride, so what I wear is a bit more important than the standard guest attire.
A Covenant Promise
It’s hot. Really hot for the end of September in Indiana. It’s been a while since I’ve been in my home state and I’ve never been in this tiny town of 600 people west of Indianapolis, but I remember September in Indiana being much more Fall-ish in than this blue-skied day has turned out. Guests
Your Story is Beautiful. Yes, Yours.
I see you. You can remember moments of joy in your life and so many individual moments of pain. You look a specific way, feel a certain way, and live a distinct way. You’re a completely unique combination of dreams, experiences, habits, loves, lessons learned, and potential to be realized. You have struggles and internal
What Are You Forgetting?
I’m at that age where I forget why I walked into a room on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. Truth be told, I’ve been like that most of my life, so I think it’s less about my age and more about having too many thoughts in my head at one time. At least, that’s what
Yoga, Pool Floats, and Your Spiritual Life
If you’ve been around people who do any form of yoga consistently, you’ll hear them refer to their “practice”. If you play tennis, you talk about it differently. You might say, “I play tennis.” I’ve never heard anyone say, “my tennis practice” But, that’s how yoga practitioners talk about doing yoga. It’s a personal practice.
A Water Fountain and Distraction
What a water fountain reminded me about distraction and how to do something about it.
5 Lessons From an Overgrown Garden
July has been about cleaning up loose ends. Am I the only one who gets busy and puts tasks off until “later, when my schedule calms down”? I hope not! This year I had a lot of travel and projects in May and June, so I kept putting things off until July. Unfortunately, I didn’t
25 Actions to Deepen Your Relationships
If you’re looking for more intimacy in any of your relationships, I’ve got you covered today. I wondered what the internet had to say about how to deepen relationships, so I went into research mode. After reading dozens of articles posted by everyone from Psychology Today to relationship counselors to researchers doing studies on long
Responding to Conflict
Have you ever realized something went wrong just as your boss, teacher, or parent came on the scene and there was no time to correct the problem before everyone knew? Do you remember that weird combination of a sinking feeling and a panicked response? I can relate to that experience because it happened to me
I'm sure your Mama taught you to share, right?
Would a friend enjoy what you found here? I’ll owe you a super-size hug if you share it with them!