Cortney Farmer
Co-Founder & Head Writer
Cortney Farmer is a believer, writer, storyteller, business owner, and breast cancer survivor. In 2020, she and her husband co-founded The Soft Never, an online community and website dedicated to celebrating the blessings and gifts that come when we eliminate the “never mindset” in our lives.
The idea for The Soft Never came to her when she started to examine just how many “firm nevers” in her own life were limiting her faith, her growth, her healing, her peace, and her joy.
Cortney uses The Soft Never’s social media pages and website as a place to hold all these self-imposed “nevers” up to the light, questioning them until they finally and forever lose their power — and she encourages others to do the same. She loves celebrating others as they shift the lens and limits on their lives to do the very things they never thought possible — or simply never saw coming!
Freedom is the moment you finally stopped filling in holes carelessly dug by someone else’s shovel. As a former people-pleaser, chronic problem-fixer, current empath, and occasional codependent, I have so many seasons in my life that could be effectively labeled: Have Shovel, Will Travel. For far too long, I wore my ability to fill…
Freedom is knowing that there’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all forgiveness — the very moment you realize forgiveness comes in a million different shapes, sizes, forms and distances. There are two things about forgiveness that I know to be true. First, there is nothing simple about forgiveness. It’s complicated and layered, nuanced and complex in…
