How A Patient Saint Led Me Home My Journey with St. Teresa Growing up, my father always told me, “Complete your Confirmation, and after that, you decide.”He meant it — once I received my sacraments, my spiritual path would be mine to choose. He also had another line he repeated often: “You don’t have to …
The Start of Something New I wandered the wilderness, chasing answers in every direction but the one that mattered – God. What if a brand could hold every part of me – my faith, my fiction, motherhood, wifehood, & my mindset work? I thought I found the answers. But I was looking outside of …
Overwhelmed? Just know, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Meant to be Should be Every moment of your life so far has led you to this exact spot. You’ve probably heard that before. I know I’ve said it to myself about a hundred times while I struggled to get my shit together …
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my Dad’s death. The weeks leading up to yesterday were very up and down, so naturally I thought the day was going to hit me hard.
Between my postpartum and the loss of my Dad, I felt a kind of rawness I’ve never known before.
I was living in a horror movie and the monster was my mind.
CLUTTER QUEEN Step back with me a little further than the story I shared in part 1 to examine another aspect of what was holding me back – one that I was loathed to admit to myself was even a problem. And I believe perhaps it’s the label itself that kept me from this little …
I saved myself when I ‘found’ myself – hidden beneath a façade that I thought I needed to adopt to live a fulfilled life. Little did I know that façade was what was destroying me.