Plot Twist: I Like Being Stressed
Plot Twist: I Like Being Stressed Let’s talk about STRESS ADDICTION. (If you want to stop reading now, we’ve already identified the problem🫣.) The new year came with great expectations — and also INSANE to-do lists. Not just making a call or sending an email. My lists were more like: That was one of six things with tight deadlines […]
Before You Blow Up Your Life, Take a Nap
Before You Blow Up Your Life, Take a Nap ⸻ When Sadness Isn’t the End of the World I was recently visiting my sister in Montana. She has an 11-year-old daughter, and you know what that means—the hormone rollercoaster is just pulling up to the station. One day, my niece called her mom and said, […]
THROW IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT: Learning to Let Go and Trust God
THROW IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT: Learning to Let Go and Trust God This week, I felt buried under 20 tons of “troubles.” Not small things—real, difficult challenges I had no answers for. And for some, I still don’t. What happens when we feel this way? We become moody, irritable, emotional, and often, our loved […]
20 Seconds That Saved Our Marriage
I wanted to share with you something I have discovered that has been a serious GAME CHANGER for my hubs and me. I am constantly running on RED, I am busy 93% of the time, and I have a running list of all the things I have to do in my head. At any given […]
How to Make the Holidays Count!
Holidays come with STRESS. They come with FEELINGS. They come with MEMORIES, and this time of year, MAGNIFIES it all. They come with the game of gift giving and whether or not it was up to the standard. They come with spending money we don’t have on things no one needs. In an attempt to make it about FAMILY, the […]