I heard a therapist once say to focus on stocking your own kitchen so that if someone comes knocking on your door with a pizza, you only choose to let them in because you want to see them and not because you’re starving. I took that a step further when I went through...
Confession? I fell out of my bible time routine. And once I was out, getting back into it felt overwhelming. And the more I thought about it, I started to question if I even really needed it. Did it really make that big of a difference? I started to convince myself it...
Something happened to me after I had my son. I don’t know if it was an immediate change or whether it crept in slowly over time, but it threw everything out of whack. Before I became a parent, I had my life pretty well in order most of the time. I was the queen of...
For years, “become more confident” was one of those goals that got moved from one year’s list to the next as I would audit my yearly goals on New Years: target unmet. I couldn’t figure it out. I saw confident people everywhere I looked. But I couldn’t seem to become...
There’s this thing we do. All of us. Not a one of us immune. We tell ourselves there’s a very important reason for it. We actually even convince ourselves that it’s for our own good; our benefit; that this is actually a favor we’re doing for ourselves. But it’s a lie....
At the end of last year, I was in such a rut that I was desperate to find a way out of it. The idea of doing anything felt overwhelming. And my go hard tendencies were keeping me stuck — I didn’t have the energy to go hard; but my brain has a hard time accepting that...