Feeling Overwhelmed? How to be Calm in the Middle of Chaos
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, many of us were feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed much of the time. As a Type A person, I often feel like there’s never enough time to get everything done. My mind is like a reel of never-ending to-do lists. With this...
6 Amazing Christian Podcasts That are Self-Care for Your Soul
In the middle of a busy day, I love to take a break and listen to a podcast while I go for a walk. This is something that I look forward to each and every day. My favorite Christian podcasts feel like self-care for my soul. The amazing podcast hosts teach me about...
What The Weirdest Year Ever Taught Me
I think we can all agree that 2020 has been pretty much the weirdest year ever. We’ve all been impacted by the global pandemic, political divisiveness, and social unrest. On top of that, we’re all dealing with personal challenges as well. For me, 2020 brought some...
What Ambiguous Loss Is – And Why It Matters
Ambiguous loss, a term coined by psychologist Pauline Boss, is a loss that occurs without closure or clear understanding. This complicates the grieving process and often results in unresolved or “frozen” grief. There are two types of ambiguous loss: Physical absence...
9 Practical Ways to Be a Little Happier Every Day
Who doesn’t want to be happier? While some people are blessed with the natural ability to be happy most of the time, this is not the case for most of us. The average person has 60,000 thoughts in a day and 80% of those thoughts are negative. The good news is that...
8 Surprising Tips for Reducing Anxiety – With Your Thoughts
Anxiety impacts all of us. Even if you’ve never experienced clinical levels of anxiety yourself, chances are high that someone in your circle has. 1 in 4 Americans will experience anxiety at some point in their lives. When we have a problem (with anxiety or with...
How to Live the Story You Want to Tell
“Live the story you want to tell”. I recently heard this Becky Higgins say this on the Cultivate a Good Life podcast (which I highly recommend) and I LOVE this quote! Most of us don’t live intentionally. Instead, we live in default mode and we don’t pay that much...
How to Love Difficult People
Luke 6:32 says “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them.” For most of us, it’s easy to be loving and kind when people are kind to us. Loving difficult people, on the other hand, is much more...
When Life Feels Unfair, Read This
I recently listened to an episode of Cultivate a Good Life (an amazing podcast, by the way!) called Show Up! The guest, Natalie Norton, was sharing her story…and it was heartbreaking. Her beloved brother passed away and shortly afterward, she lost her infant son to...
Why We Need to Cancel “Cancel Culture”
The term “cancel culture” has been buzzing around quite a bit lately. So what is cancel culture? Is it even a real thing? Wikipedia defines this trend as “a form of public shaming in which targets are publicly humiliated on the internet, via social media platforms,...