Making room for the hard and awesome of life
Hard and Awesome. This is one of my favourite sayings and concepts that I like to teach my clients. It is the concept that EVERYTHING is hard AND awesome. Hard…
Christmas Pajama Stockings
The Christmas PJ stockings are our own tradition that my kids love. But I didn’t always love them. Because I constantly forget how I sewed them the year before, and…
For moms who are feeling a need to put the phone down (+ teen cell code of conduct)
The other week, in the Simple Saturdays email, I shared about those in-between moments of my day and how I found myself reaching for my phone during those times. (I’ll…
Relationship Superpower: Empathy and validation
This blog post was first shared in the Simple Saturdays email. Though we usually stick to shorter content in that newsletter, your Nerdy Girlfriend and Counsellor had a lot of…
Main bathroom declutter (self trust + clutter blindness)
Time for another instalment of RECENTLY DECLUTTERED, where I share a space in the home I have recently decluttered and the deep thoughts my overthinking brain encounters from this practice….
Mindful Shopping (Anchor Phrases)
This excerpt is from the 2023 Life with Less Challenge, held through the Facebook Group. This past week I took my daughter away on a one-night getaway. This is…
25 Simple Pleasures of Summer
In the past, I shared a list of simple pleasures and had some really interesting feedback. A reader let me know how much the list helped them because they are…
Why I am bringing back habit tracking
If you have been around Simple on Purpose for a while, you have heard me talk a lot about habits. I think it started about 2015 when I first did…
The Linen Closet (file don’t pile)
Decluttering The LINEN CLOSET! This has been on my ‘spring cleaning’ list. So I took some time this week to declutter it. We took out everything except all the games and puzzles (those were…
PJs (facing abundance and scarcity through decluttering)
I was putting away my laundry the other night and found myself wrestling items into a bustling PJ drawer. I felt like ‘enough already!’ (as we say when we are face to…