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The Sacred Need for Time Alone
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Continue reading →: The Sacred Need for Time AloneAlone. There are days when I just need to disappear for a bit, I can’t specify how long, but the urge to be alone is mandatory. Not because I don’t care, not because I’m being rude or cold, but because I feel overwhelmed, I’ve reached burn out, and I appreciate…
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Birthday Magic
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Continue reading →: Birthday MagicMaking Special Occasions Special When it comes to our children’s birthdays, the pressure can feel enormous. Social media shows us picture-perfect parties with balloon arches, bouncy castles, banquets and endless presents with bows. And when you’re doing it alone, that pressure weighs even heavier, you start to wonder if what…
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Embracing a New Month
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Continue reading →: Embracing a New MonthReflection, Intention and Possibility A new month is like turning a page in your own story. Some chapters are dark and heavy, others are lighthearted, and some are full of change (something which I am terrible at). Whatever last month held for you, you’re allowed to begin again, gently and…
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The Best Version of Me
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Continue reading →: The Best Version of MeThe Simple Life and Simple Moments Yesterday, I turned 32. Another trip around the sun and with it is a moment to reflect on what this life means to me. For me, it isn’t in the grand, dramatic sense, but in the quiet, steady, deeply personal way that only comes…
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Survival Mode Is Not Living
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Continue reading →: Survival Mode Is Not LivingLearning to Live Again For a long time, I wasn’t living. I was merely surviving. I don’t mean the kind of “survival mode” people mention casually when they’ve skipped breakfast or had a busy week. I mean the bone-deep kind. The kind where every day is an act of endurance.…
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What If It Goes Right?
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Continue reading →: What If It Goes Right?The Power of What If? We spend so much of our energy worrying about what could go wrong. We run through every possible failure in our minds, every reason to hold back, every “what if” that keeps us frozen in place. How about we flip the script and ask ourselves,…
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The Highs and Lows
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Continue reading →: The Highs and LowsLiving Fully Through It All Life is a beautiful, unpredictable mix of soaring highs and soul-stretching lows. It’s laughter at a kitchen table one day and quiet tears on the drive home from work the next (thankfully this doesn’t happen so often now). Through it all whether you’re on the…
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Who is “Everybody,” Really?
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Continue reading →: Who is “Everybody,” Really?Spoiler: It’s Barely 5 People and Half of Them Don’t Even Care We humans have a bad habit of giving way too much power to a mysterious, all-knowing council of critics we call the allusive.. everybody. You already know the ones: But here’s the million-pound question: who exactly is “everybody”?…
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You Can’t Self-Sabotage Forever
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Continue reading →: You Can’t Self-Sabotage ForeverYou Can’t Self-Sabotage Forever.. Or You Can But It Will Be Sh*t Self-sabotage has a sneaky way of creeping into our lives. It looks like procrastination, like downplaying your own achievements, like choosing comfort over growth even when you know better. It whispers, “not yet… maybe tomorrow” and convinces you…
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Rose-Tinted Glasses: Would I REALLY Swap Lives?
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Continue reading →: Rose-Tinted Glasses: Would I REALLY Swap Lives?Lucky You! The other day a friend said to me, “you’re so lucky you can send your son to holiday club during the six-week holidays.” At first, her words caught me off guard. Lucky? I was perplexed because from where I stand, it doesn’t always feel that way. To be…