Originally posted on Rachel Adams The Love Offering Blog Series My husband, Scott, and I love taking hikes in the woods behind our house in the White Mountains, which, if you know me at all, is kind of funny. My not-so-secret secret? I’m terrified of nature. I don’t know if I was…
Originally posted on The Uncommon Normal It’s funny how we can breeze through our lives, believing so many beautiful, core truths about ourselves without ever realizing—some things are only true because they’ve never been tested. It’s funny how we can breeze through our lives, believing so many beautiful, core truths about ourselves without ever realizing—some…
“Freedom is the moment we grant ourselves permission to take the long way.” I’ve never been a fan of taking the long way — at least on purpose. I tend to be a shortest route, fastest time, quickest span between two points kind of person. But in July 2021, we sold our home. My husband, kids, dogs,…
“I’m giving myself permission to sit this round out.” It took me way too long to learn that it’s okay to write your own permission slip when it comes to relationships — for a lot of reasons. To start, I’m a first-born, recovering overachiever. I’m also a raging empath, which makes me especially prone to…
“Freedom is recognizing that healing is a journey — not a destination.” I’ve spent much of the last four years navigating through significant and unexpected trauma with several important, foundational relationships in my life. The losses piled up high and at a dizzying pace. When I finally came out of the haze and took emotional inventory…
So we deflected, diverted, and dodged that uncomfortable, nagging pull, steady in our resolve to do what we often did back then when faced with something that disrupted what we wanted — completely ignore it until it did our bidding and went away. It didn’t go away. Here’s a Soft Never I absolutely never saw coming: Selling our family home…
“It’s worse to spend your life on the outside looking in, wondering what if, than it is to try and dare greatly and risk the chance of failure. Dare greatly; get in the arena and try.” – Brené Brown How much time, effort, and attention do you spend tending to the people nestled comfortably in life’s “cheap…
“Go Be You. No approval or permission needed. No explanation or apology given.” -Me Now to Me Then What’s one thing you would tell your younger self if you could? If you could somehow go back and engage with a previous version of yourself, what advice would you offer, what encouragement would you give, what…
“The biggest gifts of the journey are in the twists and turns —not the straight lines.” – Cortney Farmer, The Soft Never The Soft Never was recently featured on the Stories Connect People podcast, hosted by Polly Van Duser — and I have officially put a Soft Never on thinking that I would never be on…
I keep seeing the phrase, “Be brave enough to suck at something new,” popping up all over my social media feeds. I love the sentiment — but I struggle with the application. My not-so-deep dark secret: I’m rarely brave. In fact, I barely know brave. For me, brave is a deadbeat emotion: entirely unreliable and utterly…