“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…
“Setting boundaries isn’t about telling people what to do. It’s about telling people what you’re not willing to do.” I’ve only recently begun to understand the concept of healthy boundaries. Growing up, boundaries just weren’t a thing in my family, for a lot of reasons. I was taught structure, rules, and measured discipline. And…
“At this point, 2020 has lived the heck out of us all, feeling more like a dog year than anything else — an unruly, untrained, rabid dog year that both alternately and simultaneously continues to snap at us, destroy the things we love, and leave giant turds everywhere as it slowly runs on forever.” Right…
“Closure isn’t always a conversation. Sometimes, closure is simply the choice to protect your peace and move forward on your terms.” Quarantine allowed me and my excessively busy brain to stumble into a surprising, but much needed, two-part life lesson: I do not need anyone else’s permission for closure. And (more importantly), I do not…
“We get so focused on doing what’s easiest for us, expected from us, and right in front of us that we fail to do the things that bring joy to us.” Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about making time for joy. For years, I regarded joy like an unexpected (albeit beloved) guest. A…
Anyone else in a season of saying “no” to things you never thought you would (or could) say no to? Earlier this year, a friend tagged me in an Instagram post about the power and importance of saying “no.” My instant response was: I’m in a new relationship with no – and I am loving it. …
The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. – Exodus 14:22 We have a saying in our house: Just keep moving toward the beach. When things get tough, when we’re overwhelmed, when we feel like we can’t…