SECRET #1 – CUT TO THE CHASE Have you ever had a conversation with an 8-year-old? It’s a meandering, detail filled, destination-less experience that can often leave you with a “what just happened?” feeling. Some adults have similar conversational peaks. The entire time you’re thinking to yourself can we just “cut to the chase?” It’s […]
It’s our last day of this holiday project and I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. It’s really been such a pleasure. I have a very simple project for you today. I want you to get out the photo albums, the box of photos and memories. All of them. Yes. All of […]
Repeat after me: Thank you so much! That is so thoughtful of you and I appreciate you so very much. This is what you say when someone gives you a gift and you don’t have a gift for them. It’s important to practice some things so you don’t go into your default negative self talk […]
The other day Braeden was losing his mind about something and I said: “I think we need a time-out” and so we sat on the couch together for a minute and just shared space. At first, he was angry. Then he leaned in. Then he crawled on my lap. Then he said, “I think maybe […]
The Winter Solstice is today – it’s the longest night – it’s one of my favorite days of the year. It’s the tipping point of when the days go from darker each day to lighter each day. It feels like the promise of hope and light. Today I have two suggestions for you: Eat by […]
It’s Thursday – it’s my favorite day of the week – all the anticipation for this weekend and the holidays is at it’s peak and the stress has been kept at bay! Today I have 3 suggested Subtraction Project prompts: Eat something from the freezer or pull something out for over the weekend to give […]
Hi! Hello! You’re doing great! This is permission to take one bite of a cookie that doesn’t taste good and politely put the remainder into a napkin because you are too good to eat sub-par cookies. This is permission to enjoy what you want and permission to stop eating when you’ve reached a point of […]
On Friday morning I was reading Braeden the book “The Gift of Nothing” it’s a great story about a little cat that wants to get his friend, a dog, something that he doesn’t already have, but it’s tricky, because his friend has everything, so after some good thinking the cat wraps an empty box and gives the […]
I like to live in a state of Flow, where I move from one thing to the next thing with momentum and ease on my side. This can only happen though if I have a bit of planning done because without that planning done flow turns pretty quickly into panic and scramble. Today I’m doing […]
The year was 2008. Lexi was a baby. It was not the easiest of years, I had tried to get a photo of Lexi for her first holiday photo card and nothing was working the way I wanted it to and then Lexi got sick and we didn’t head home for the only Christmas of […]