It’s 10:25 pm and I have a headache. I haven’t slept well in days (make that weeks), and I have a sink full of dishes. I was planning to post before 3pm, too. I could write, and do chores, but, you know what? I’m going to relax, and watch a movie until I fall asleep. I need …
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When I speak about being positive, I always use the analogy of drowning. Isn’t that how we feel when we are exhausted, and overwhelmed with everything we need to juggle? But we don’t drown from falling in the water, we drown from not standing up or swimming out. I didn’t learn how to swim until …
Do you dread doing laundry and other chores? I have found 3 ways to enjoy the every day chores of motherhood… and I’m sharing them with you! #LaundryRedefined
My heart was racing with excitement. Modern technology affords us many luxuries; the kind that our grandmothers didn’t dream about having, and our moms didn’t have… the kind I didn’t enjoy when I had my first two daughters in my twenties. I logged on to the account so I could check out my pregnancy file and …
Needy: “a woman who wants affection, attention, or reassurance to an excessive degree.” No one wants to be THAT woman. Do YOU? She’s vulnerable, she could be judged… or even worse… she could be rejected. Those are probably the BIGGEST fears a woman could possibly have… and those fears do not serve us or bring joy. Society …
This is probably the hardest post I’ve ever written: sharing the things my father failed to do, what he taught me, and what our relationship means to me. I cried with every word I wrote.
The past two months have been crazy and exciting. Crazy, because moving takes a lot of time, energy, and money. AND, because I worked it into the time when I was attending 7 conferences, blogging, and holding interviews for various podcasts and tele-summits, it was just madness. This post is not about how to have a stress-free …
How do I become more productive at work and more present at home? It’s the quintessential question of work-life balance. And the answer is simple, yet definitely not EASY. While there is no magic formula, the sure way to do focused work and be fully present with your family is mindfulness. I found this definition …
When Taylor Bare and I became friends and started spending time together, he seemed quite surprised about my obsession intense passion for conserving water, electricity, and food. Maybe “annoyed” was a better term for it, although he would probably never admit to it. I didn’t blame him. I know I can appear be a bit …
When I decided to become vegan, I probably didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I mean, I knew I was quitting meat, dairy, and honey… and anything that contains it. What I didn’t know is that I would be telling my vegan conversion story over and over again in an attempt to answer the never-ending …