Habits, Lifestyle
I am beyond excited to introduce Lela Putman in this Live Heart-Fully Conversation. Lela is an amazing and strong woman who has truly had to fight not just to regain respect, dignity, and self-worth for herself, but also for her husband of two years…for Lela, the last couple of years have brought some real and personal challenges for both her and her
Habits, Lifestyle
…for this Live Heart-Fully Conversation, I have invited a love and relationships expert, communicator, and content creator, Sujeiry Gonzalez to share about her own personal success story. Sujeiry’s story is one that includes some huge successes in the traditional ways we think of success. What I find inspiring though is that she is defining success in a way that is far from what we typically think of as success. This Live Heart-Fully Conversation is not one you want to miss as Sujeiry Gonzalez redefines everything we know about success and challenges us to do some real hard soul searching…
Habits, Lifestyle
I’ve been on several travel adventures throughout my life. Of course, I am in no way done with adventure. For instance, I’ve been to plenty of U.S. States on road trips. I’ve camped, backpacked, and seen a lot of back country and National Parks. I’ve been to Baja, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru (twice), England, France, Amsterdam, Norway, Estonia, and I lived in Russia for a short time…I love talking about travel and adventures, so of course I had to include a conversation in the Live Heart-Fully Conversation Series about adventure. That is why I invited Kate Roman to chat with me about…
Habits, Lifestyle
Crying can be such a wonderful, healing, and cathartic thing to do. There are moments in all of our lives when we are deeply moved by something, or deeply hurt. I know it’s strange, but I have often enjoyed my cries though, (despite that others may see the uglier side of my face). Afterwards, I just feel better, and oddly refreshed. When you experience moments (being deeply moved or hurt), you may ask yourself, is it okay to cry. I am writing this blog to tell you that it IS okay to cry…I would love to stop buying into cultural expectations. After all crying is what makes us human, and it is a way to…
Habits, Lifestyle
When we think of balance, we often think of balancing things like work and home life, budgets, and following a healthy, nutritious diet. However, I am beginning to realize that balance embodies so much more than just that. Balance is the backbone of every facet of our lives-peace, compromise, health, wellness, security, comfort, relationships, responsibilities, and just about everything else…I recently spoke with blogger and novelist, Carolyn Savage, about the topic of whole life balance and was amazed by the wisdom shared. We talked a great deal about…
Habits, Lifestyle
Engaging with others is so important in building deeper relationships and being able to respond well to others…In this conversation with Steph LeBlanc, we dive into some seemingly simply principals of engaging with others in conversations and learning to respond well. However, they are in no way easy to implement into our daily conversations. Engaging with others and responding well in our conversation requires…
Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Parenting
Relinquish control! It’s not so easy, is it? Control is a word that many of us struggle with, and definitely one that I myself struggle with in a big way! I want to control everything in my environment; the big things, the little things, and all the things that fall in between. Aside from controlling things, of even greater concern is the desire many of us have to control the people in our lives, namely, our loved ones. I recently had a conversation with Katie Allen, founder of the blog, Allen the Family, and a woman who, like me, has struggled with wanting to control every aspect of her life. In this conversation she discusses…
Activities, Food, Habits, Lifestyle, Parenting, Recipe, Toddlers
I just added four additional free parenting and lifestyle goodies for you to enjoy! I have listed them below with clickable links. You can also find them…
Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Toddlers
At first the thumb sucking was cute, adorable even…I always thought it was too soon to do anything about it. Everyone told me that he would eventually grow out of it on his own. So we let it go for a little while longer. However, once the little man turned four (we made) a big push to kick the habit to the ground and bury it for good.
Lifestyle
When we long for the past, we can easily become bitter and grief-ridden about our present. When we look to the future, we risk becoming disillusioned and fearful. Both the past and the future rob us of our hope and our joy in the present, making it impossible to embrace each season as we are in it.
