After almost two months of a Lenten break from social media, I’m finding myself hesitant to return.
It began as a quiet invitation to pull back, to rest from the comparison that often slips unnoticed into my sporadic scrolling. I needed time to practice being present in my actual life, ...
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Why Rest Isn’t a Luxury
The tiredness is hitting me hard this week, like the cumulative exhaustion from the past eleven pandemical months has finally caught up with me.
No matter how much I sleep, there is this undercurrent of exhaustion I just can’t shake. More than just my body, my brain is tired. My soul is ...
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You’re Different than You Used to Be
What have you learned in the past year?
A dear friend just told me she didn’t want to answer that question, because she didn’t want to hold on to anything 2020 brought with it. She admitted her resistance came from the pain of loss this past year, from not wanting to face the grief of the ...
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When You Feel Stuck
It had started as a romantic adventure, a double-date into the mountains to find Christmas trees. We hadn’t anticipated quite so much snow, though. The further we drove in search of the perfect place to begin our hunt, the harder it came down. When we pulled over to scope out the area and make a ...
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An Invitation to Reflect & Connect
The year that we thought would never end is finally in it’s last few weeks, and although flipping the calendar to a new page brings no guarantees, it holds an opportunity to live differently than we did this year. Now's our chance to reflect on where we've been and connect with who we want to be ...
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Letting Go of Mom Guilt
I feel my blood pressure rising as I try to tweak the font on my blog, exerting the same mental energy as if I were in a foreign country trying to speak a new language. I’m working frantically, eyes on the clock and aware of the approaching deadline to get my new site up and launched.
My ...
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