I’d just finished a walk, looking at my step count, when a client sent me an adorable picture of her new tiny puppy. I smiled as I read the text. This puppy was another piece of rebuilding and recovering and renewing life. I was thrilled for her. I thought about her puppy throughout the day,…
I’ve been doing more on my own individual work and diving into Internal Family Systems. In that journey, I’ve found some amazing, hurt, fun, beautiful, protective, highly motivated managing, helpful, and faithful parts of me. I’m learning how to see the part, ask questions, tend to what’s there, and discover what it’s afraid of or…
I had another “still more healing to do” moment. Recently, while sitting with friends, I was sharing. I felt myself getting passionate about the topic, wanting to explain, be heard, and share a story. Once again, my face was getting red and I knew this was another moment to remember where I am on my…
Recently, with my personal story running in the background, get joy moments have been precious, needed, and absolutely just for fun. I love recognizing moments that bring me joy! In counseling or coaching, we would call these get joy moments “glimmers” or happy, joyful, life giving things and recognize them as an opposite to a…
I don’t think I’ve ever really thought about how easy or hard introducing myself is or isn’t until recently. I’m noticing a horrible trend where my face fires up a deep red and I feel my neck getting spotty while I stutter over my words, trying to figure out what to say for that situation…
I’ve been sensing that it’s time to write and share more about the changes that have been running in the background of my life. There are parts of the story that I never, ever imagined happening, parts of the story that have changed everything. I’ve found myself saying, “Not in a million years did I…
It was 5am and I hadn’t made coffee yet. I turned on a lamp, put on my scarf and coat and boots so that I could take Brisket, our 7 month old poodle puppy, out for his first walk of the day. Everything was fairly normal until I turned on the light, saw his crate…
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…
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…