Yes, there are ways to encourage yourself that will help you move forward in goals, break through challenging days, and reorient after a rough season or relationship. Whether you are talking about life challenges in marriage, parenting, homeschooling, ministry, work, missions, health, friendships, seasons of life or family dynamics, there are some things that you…
Motivation tips… sounds good, doesn’t it? Although everyone wants to do the things, how to you really get motivated to do what needs to be done? Motivation comes with deliberate, daily decisions to start small, do little things and dive in. The battle of knowing that something needs to get done yet feeling very little…
New to neurodiversity? What is it? What does it mean? Is this new word a part of your story and you aren’t sure what that means yet or where to get support? Are you wondering if neurodiversity impacts you, your marriage or your family? What is neurodiversity? Very simply, from the Cleveland Clinic, “The term…
Imagine your daughter is standing before you, red face with all the tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Yep. Bedtime,” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a…
Looking for real, lasting, life changing methods and solutions? Are you looking for things that will drastically impact your daily life? For me, this happens when I’m reading the Bible and a certain phrase stands out from the rest. {read to the bottom for a free printable list!} A verse that jabs my heart and…
Life coaching is fairly new on the landscape. People aren’t really sure what it is yet or why coaching might help them in the midst of busy lives, kids, work and home. Coaching is for anyone! Coaching is not counseling and coaching is usually quite affordable. Getting your own life coach is an exciting addition…
After a season of ignoring my favorite things, my counselor encouraged and asked me to greatly consider doing my favorite things. Fun things. Crazy things. My own things. Interesting things. My mentor coach, in another way of encouraging growth, told me to stop hesitating and just jump out there and do the things! Stop overthinking,…
The Proverbs 31 woman. I have a million feelings and thoughts about this chapter at the moment. I’ve been sitting with it, thinking about it, praying through it. Who is this woman and why does she get a chapter in the Bible? There are old sermons, churchy devotionals, cutesy, romanticized t-shirts… all that feel very…
Books are a very important piece of personal growth. There was a time that I purposefully ignored all the growth books around me because I had a feeling I knew what they would tell me. I knew once I started on the journey to growth, things would change. I would change. Life would change. The…
I have been struggling with some hard questions. Questions for myself and questions from other people. Hard questions that have complicated, difficult answers. Not only are the questions complicated and difficult, but they’re hard to explain with extended answers that aren’t really for everyone. Even the easy questions… things like, “What do you do?” or…