This post is about boundaries and the burnt-out Mom. This isn’t about the boundaries we need to set with parents, or at work, or with that one friend who only calls when they need something. This isn’t about the barriers we put up to keep people out. This is about how it feels to be … Read more
I wrote this post when Conor and I were celebrating 14 years together. And if you were a fly on the wall for those 14 years, there were times where it looked like we probably wouldn’t stick together. As we went on a little anniversary road trip we started a conversation about what we think … Read more
I thought I would be more settled with motherhood. 4 and half years and three kids in and I constantly feel like my heart is a trampoline for all my worst feelings to have a playdate on. Like most women who become moms, I had confidence in my abilities to be a mom, wife, homemaker before … Read more
This site has been the diary of my journey to simplify my life and live it ON PURPOSE. I’ve shared my insights, my fails, my successes, my recommendations and all my tips to help you on your own journey too. BUT, I can’t talk about living my life on purpose without talking about the Enneagram. … Read more
Alternate Title: Let’s have a real talk about what’s in YOUR heart SUCCESS. We all want it, but we rarely put any personal clarification behind what it ought to mean to us. We want success because success means we did things ‘right’. Success implies that we are in a great state of life. Therefore, we … Read more
PART TWO of YOU CAN SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE (This post is also covered on the Simple Saturdays podcast, episode 31) WHY DON’T WE HAVE A SIMPLER LIFE? In part one of the You Can Simplify Your Life series we covered WHY life feels complicated and overwhelming – I think it all comes down to … Read more
Over the years I have talked (and talked and talked) about the Enneagram. It has been a personal growth tool that has helped me make such positive changes in my own life! I love it so much that I also use it with my life coaching clients. I’ve been asked by different people to … Read more
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INTENTIONAL LIVING mom of three WHY AM I UNHAPPY? I was standing in my basement looking at a small metal sign that read ‘hot chocolate 50 cents’. I bought it to fill a spot in my first ‘adult home’ out of college. I thought it said ‘this woman has a heart for nostalgia and simpler … Read more
Alternate Title: Go On Road Trips, They Said! It’s Fun, They Said! I thought I should check in with the ‘lists‘ we made of how we wanted to parent our kids. We set some clear ideas on things we wanted to do from the mundane to the epic. We wrote out qualities we wanted our kids … Read more
Have you ever met a family and looked at their lifestyle, or traditions, or way of interacting and thought, ‘yeah, they’ve got that something‘. Maybe they are travelling around the world, or homesteading on an acreage, or left the rat race and moved to an island for the slow life. These are the kind of … Read more