Category: Personal Growth
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Apparently, Yoga Made Me Have Feelings
When slowing down gives your brain and body a chance to catch up with each other. I had a first today while in my yoga class. While I’m not that old yet, I do feel like I’m at a point in my life where I don’t get very many “firsts”…
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The Simple Pleasures We Forget to Enjoy
You know the saying to stop and smell the roses? Sometimes, it’s just as important to stop and feel the breeze! There are moments that don’t ask for your attention. They just happen, whether you notice them or not. Today, after a boxing class that left me completely drained in…
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The Gap in Women’s Healthcare We Don’t Talk About
Why Knowing Your Body and Asking Questions Matters More Than Ever I didn’t expect to walk away from a TEDx event questioning how much I knew about my own body. It wasn’t a heavy conversation. If anything, it felt surprisingly normal—like listening to things we should have already known, just…
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Marriage in Hard Times: Financial Stress, Depression, and Connection
Lately, my husband and I have been in a hard season — one where love is still there, but everything feels fragile. We argue more easily, recover more slowly, and sometimes struggle to recognize each other beneath the stress. It’s unsettling to see how quickly life’s pressure can turn partnership…
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Finding Purpose (In Smaller Places)
For a long time, I thought purpose was supposed to feel big. Like a clear calling I could point to and say, this is it. Something impressive enough to justify the effort of being here. I assumed if I didn’t feel that pull—toward a career, a cause, a clearly defined…
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Looking Forward, Standing Still
With the holidays at the end of the year, it’s very easy to compare yourself to the rest of the world. Every holiday movie saturating our streaming platforms is about finding love, happiness, and some kind of Christmas magic. The New Year is a massive celebration about new beginnings and…
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Welcome, to the Lovely Ordinary
We all feel it sometimes. Ordinary. Boring. Average. We get stuck in the rut that is our everyday lives. The alarm goes off, coffee brews, emails pile up, school drop-offs, work meetings, laundry, dinner, bedtime. But I’ve been thinking lately: what if these ordinary days aren’t as “ordinary” as they…
The Lovely Ordinary 