Christmas Podcast Episode #2

Don't wait until everything is in place to breathe! Or for your to-do list to be crossed-off. {Can a few baby steps toward having your long-term projects be done and doing your daily chores as you go along, count it as productive? Because any movement forward is...

In our neck-of-the-woods, it is getting cold outside. My flower beds are wet with rain (blessed rain!) and soon the annuals will die in frost. My goal is to get them pulled out before they freeze and turn black. There are leaves in wet piles. Over the course of the...

Whether we are telling our brains to think and speak well of ourselves and others, and we're rehearsing positives on purpose day in and day out {and reaping the happy benefits} or, if we are telling our brains to listen to negatives and believe negatives and speak of...

Do you ever wake up on Monday morning and hit a wall of overwhelm in your mind? Feeling like you have too much to do? Or new goals that you're not sure how to incorporate into an already full schedule? It has happened to me on too many occasions! I'd like to share...

We sometimes get confused. We might ask ourselves, "If I commend myself for a job well-done, am I proud?" or "If I berate myself, does that make me humble?" I'd say, no and no. I just finished cleaning the kitchen. It was one job in the middle of 15 others that was...

Any sacrifice you are making to teach and support and nurture and strengthen your family will pay you in the end. We're here to grow together. Even the greatest pain- childbirth, temporary separation, saying you're sorry and asking forgiveness, finding the strength to...

Every family has challenges. No, every family has multiple, on-going, at times life-threatening and or soul-threatening difficulties they are trying to work through. And, while none of us are without challenges, there is so much strength in moving through them...

I love this fall-time of the year! The skies are softening. The angle of the light is changing and the colors are looking richer every day. I love the abundance of vegetables and fruit! And it's such a wonderful feeling to put some things by for the winter. "All...

I say "wrong" because they aren't true, and I'm referring to the songs in our culture that worship people, even those we love. The music that says, "If you leave me, I won't have any reason to go on." Or, those that sing along the lines of, "If you decide to be...