healing

Allowing Yourself to Be Loved in Real Time

Allowing Yourself to Be Loved in Real Time

Strong people struggle too, but healing doesn't always begin with having the right answers. Sometimes it begins with allowing the people who...

Reconnecting With Yourself: Healing Through Joy

Reconnecting With Yourself: Healing Through Joy

I remember a conversation I had with a woman who had left an abusive marriage. We talked about survival, stress, exhaustion, and the slow wa...

The First Ride Back

The First Ride Back

Redefining Victory After Surgery, Change, and Recovery We are very good at tending to physical wounds. We ice. We stretch. We submit to phys...

The Edge: Choosing Sustainability Over Burnout

The Edge: Choosing Sustainability Over Burnout

I was looking back over some pages in my journal and came across this one from October.  Life is often both a juggling and balancing ac...

Cultivating Stillness

Cultivating Stillness

We’ve talked about cultivating calm. Now let’s talk about cultivating stillness. Not so easy, is it? Lately, I’ve noticed how restless I can...

Longing for Water: Finding Flow in the Desert

Longing for Water: Finding Flow in the Desert

I recently got an email from my Mum, who mentioned my Dad had gotten out in his kayak. That same week, my sister video chatted from Florida....

Reclaiming Myself. Again

Reclaiming Myself. Again

Instinct. Intuition. Gut feelings. Or God? Sometimes it's hard to tell where that inner knowing comes from. All I know is, it's always there...

Saving Myself

Saving Myself

Choosing Sanity Over Chaos in a Life of Constant Demands It was a week with a lot of tough stuff. Really, truly, heavy stuff. In addition to...

Caterpillar to Butterfly: We don't grow when things are easy.

Caterpillar to Butterfly: We don't grow when things are easy.

We all want the butterfly. We celebrate the wings. But no one dreams about the cocoon. The cocoon feels small. Dark. Uncomfortable. It asks ...