“Dropping constant improvement as a goal doesn’t mean you don’t care about growth; it means you value growth from a compassionate, organic lens instead of a pressured, forced one.”-Lisa Olivera “Can you please turn the TV down more?!” …

“Have you been frustrating yourself by trying to eliminate your negative experiences instead of simply better managing them? If so, how? Where in your life could you actually benefit from a few more negative experiences? How have you been avoiding them?” -Mark Manson Today I want to chat about how…

I’ve personally lost three friends in the past two years or so that were people who I thought would be forever friends. These were folks who stood beside me on my wedding day, and that I envisioned having a women’s circle with when we were 85 and gray. I’ve cried…

“This life is meant to change you, can you let it?”-Sheleana Aiyana If I could give 2022 a theme it would be CHANGE. It has been a shedding of skins that have gotten itchy, too tight, and ill fitting. It’s been an allowing myself to let go of what is…

The past month and a half has been A LOT for me. It started with us hosting a gender reveal party, then we drove to Upstate NY and attended one of my husband’s best friend’s weddings. This was immediately followed by my husband running a marathon on his birthday, throwing…

Today I want to talk about a BIG topic that is near and dear to my heart, and is also perhaps one of the most vulnerable things I’ve shared: how my faith deconstruction journey has been necessary for my healing. Before I dive into this more deeply, I want to…

Wrapping my mind around being pregnant and all the upcoming changes that this will mean for me and my family has been a lot to digest. It feels like I’m slowly starting to have my feet underneath me again. Transitions I’m reminded how with each new stage, each transition, there…

For four long years I’ve replaced all our household cleaning products with non-toxic ones, replaced all our cookware with non-toxic, replaced all my beauty products, installed reverse osmosis water filters, used bio-identical hormone replacements, hired expensive functional medical doctors, gone to naturopathic doctors, tried every supplement know to man, stopped…

Last weekend my husband and I had the opportunity to travel to the mountains in Southwest Virginia with some dear friends of ours to see a bluegrass concert at an outdoor venue that is in a limestone rock quarry. There were food trucks, twinkly hanging lights, and summertime goodness vibes. …