Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
Six weeks ago, my daughter said she’d hit a song-writing slump. Avery’s guitar instructor had challenged her to writing one new song per month. At the end of the month, they agreed to share the song they’d written with one another. Avery and I had a good laugh when she said, “I’m only 12, and I don’t have as many…
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I’m just going to warn you—this message is going to have typos. I don’t have the luxury of time to proof it multiple times like I normally do before I post. There won’t be a ton of photos either. I’m hoping you can just imagine with me. Right now, I am conserving my energy; I’ve had my head down since…
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I recently rediscovered the song, “In the Blood,” by John Mayer. I’d heard it before, but it had never brought me to my knees the way it does now. Especially this part: “How much of my mother has my mother left in me?How much of my love will be insane to some degree?And what about this feeling that I’m never…
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A friend reached out to me after a family member commented on her size and suggested she needed to increase her exercise. “I know I’ve gained a bit of weight,” my friend said to me, her words heavy with shame. Wait. Hold up a minute. Let me remind you of everything you ARE,I said to her and to anyone else…
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New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday. In fact, it’s typically been a tough one for me. I am suspended in the uncomfortable space between TOO MUCH (holiday splurge, anyone?) and NOT ENOUGH (unmet goals, anyone?). I typically feel this overwhelming pressure to begin a New Year overhaul (whether needed or not), put on a cute outfit that…
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In a recent television interview, I was given forty-five seconds to share my story. When I shared the video clip with my online community, I was struck by the comment of a dear reader who had recently attended one of my speaking events. She wrote: “I wish you’d been given more time to share. It hurt a little that you had to…
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Facebook keeps telling me I have not written to you in a while… like I don’t know. The last blog post I wrote was J… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I will never forget how my daughter described the hardest thing about moving to a new place. She described it as no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Grateful to be part of the #PhelanLucky family and to help spread awareness and support for a resilient group of ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…