Making Space
We live in a post-Freudian, self-help, pop-psychology saturated era, where culture is obsessed with diagnosing and “fixing” the layers of our inner-world, to ar...
Category: Personal
Part two: Affirmation Overcoming the Three P’s
Have you ever experienced a moment of overcoming where you were genuinely pleased with yourself? Where you were proud of your accomplishment? Too often we look ...
Overcoming the Three P’s
There’s no point in sugarcoating it, the three p’s have been like slow-working poison in my life. They have led to all sorts of destructive thinking, choices, a...
The Necessity of Messiness
Where are all my fellow recovering perfectionists at?? This one is for us today! Some of my words might make your skin crawl a little, but I believe in us and o...
Invest in Change: It’s Worth the Effort
I’ve surprised myself with my attitude and ambition for 2022. Maybe I’m fired up over all the struggles, crises, and chaos—worldwide and in my small, personal r...
The Best Laid Plans: Finding Goodness in Inconvenience
My husband and I have been in the remodeling business for more than a decade, and we have learned first-hand how unpredictable the renovation process can be. Re...
A Letter to Fear
Dear Fear, I know you’ve got good reason to be here and I know why you’re shouting so loud. The case you’ve presented, the argument you’ve made, it’s vali...
Boundaries: Hold the Line
This cycle of compromise and compliance then eventual frustration, irritation, and overwhelm is ENTIRELY my fault. I say ‘yes’ when I need to say ‘no,’ and I sa...
Friction Vs. the Easy Button
I’m going to venture out on a limb and suggest that the Staples’ “easy button” has become a cultural icon. More than 15 years after its inception, one quick Goo...
Why Unburdened?
It was the summer of 2020 and I, like so many others, felt shaken from the chaos and disappointments of the early Covid pandemic. The spring of 2020 was suppose...