Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
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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“You can say what is, or fight for itClose your mind and take a riskYou can say ‘it’s mine’ and clench your fistOr see each other as a gift.We’re gonna get it, get it together right nowGonna get it, get it together somehow.”–Coldplay, Up&Up On many afternoons, a fourth grader in the neighborhood greets my middle school daughter on her…
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“Had I stayed the person who was hard to be around—
I’m not sure my daughter would have welcomed me into her room t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"The world will be heavy…
Days will be hard…
Stress will be real…
But if snow globes become lighthouses,
Songs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Our children need to see us failing and messing up and making mistakes, and see how we own it and how we use it as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…