Category: Personal Growth
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Maycember: The Most Overlooked Mental Health Crisis of the Year
The Mess of May, also known as Maycember. Everything happening at once. Birthdays, Mother’s Day, Teacher Appreciation Week, School Ending, Field Day, Warm Weather Outings, Summer Plans, Graduations, Spring Sports, Dance Competitions. Burnout in Disguise May is when burnout comes dressed like celebration. It looks like joy—balloons, cupcakes, sunny field days—but underneath, so many of… Read more
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Messy Growth: A Yellow-Dust Life or a Beautiful Disaster
Ah yes. Spring is here, the messy growth, the smell of poop wafting in the air (read why here), and to add to that? A powdery yellow dusting of pollen. Covering every available surface, including my dog whenever he goes outside to pee. He doesn’t seem to care, but the yellow tinge to his grey… Read more
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It’s Poop Again: Embracing Discomfort for Growth
Spring has sprung, and with it comes a harsh reminder—growth doesn’t always smell like fresh flowers. Sometimes, it stinks. Literally. March 20th arrived, and all I can smell outside is manure. There is so much discomfort for growth in this season. It’s not the fresh blooming flowers or the sweet scent of a fresh rain,… Read more
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Why It’s Time to Stop Playing Alone: Household Collaboration
The Mess: Avoiding Household Collaboration and Feeling the Pressure to Do It All Myself Instead With car keys in my hand, ready to hustle my girls out the door for school, my youngest daughter’s voice broke the list that was streaming through my brain “’Mom, can you do my laundry today, please?’ she asked. It… Read more
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The Year of Enough: Setting Realistic Goals for Real-Life Growth
The Mess: New Year’s Resolutions Here’s why mine always fail. They are overly ambitious. Burn out and failure lie ahead, but I want to make this the year of enough. I’m guilty of this in my professional life. My mantra was always I will work harder. But working harder doesn’t always yield fruition. Sometimes it… Read more
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Finding Peace During Christmas Chaos: Embrace the Magic
The Mess: Christmas Shopping. Tis the season for stressed out women trying to make the Christmas magic happen for everyone. My goal this season was to find peace during the Christmas chaos. This year I was determine to get all the business and busyness of Christmas shopping over and done with early so I could… Read more
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Overcoming Anxiety of New Beginnings: Fear to Freedom
The Mess: Stressing over the unknown. I don’t mean what the future holds or when I will die. I mean overcoming anxiety of new beginnings. It’s the inescapable anxiety that bubbles up anytime I am faced with something new. At the height of my anxiety struggles, even something that promised fun made my chest tight. … Read more
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Embracing a Growth Mindset: From Crumbles to Confidence
Today’s mess: Lacking a growth mindset. Have you ever struggled with the fear of inadequacy? Developing a growth mindset could help. You know what you want. You feel deep in your soul the type of woman you are meant to be, but you find yourself stuck. My girls and I have been through some seasons… Read more
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Clueless with Comparison Fatigue
Today’s mess: comparison fatigue and the gut-sinking feeling of not being enough. I’m a firm believer that almost anything can be overcome with personal growth and learning, but it is hard to get there. Understanding Comparison Fatigue: The Silent Confidence Killer It is easy to scroll through social media in the comfort of your own home… Read more
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Cheese-less Pizza and Self Actualization for Women
What pizza teaches us about self actualization for women. Today’s mess: Digging in to a freshly delivered pizza only to have all the gooey delicious cheese slide right off. Any other impatient eaters out there? In my haste to eat the gooey-goodness, I neglected to let the melty cheese settle and reform. The result was… Read more