My Intentional Mess: Blog Posts
When it comes to my life, there are so many messes that occur on the regular. I’m here to share how to bring intention to them. Welcome to the anti-highlight reel of My Intentional Mess.
I’m an optimistic-realist striving to make the most of life when shit gets real. My Intentional Mess is a space to share the ups, downs, and everything in between as I navigate personal development, career changes, and the beautiful chaos of motherhood.
I’m a wife to a career firefighter and mama to two beautifully sassy girls. After 10 years of teaching high school English, I took a leap of faith and switched careers (learn more about my story here). It’s been a wild ride rebuilding my identity and balancing all the roles we, as women, juggle.
Here, you’ll find honest stories about my journey, tips for personal growth, and reflections on making intentional choices even when life gets messy. Whether you’re a young woman carving your future or a wise woman like me finding your way after a major life change, join me in this journey of self-discovery and growth.
Let’s embrace the mess and grow together!
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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. …
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Finding Balance and Peace: Self-Care During Transitions
To fix today’s mess, we are going to explore self-care during transitions and not in the way you might think. The Mess: Shift Work and Constant Transitions The Mess: The terrible tightness that constricts my chest towards the evening when my husband is at work. Shift work, like I’ve talked about before, is insane. It…
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Turning Gray Into Gold: Creating a New Vision for Your Life
The Mess: Unhappiness, but not really knowing why. Maybe you are creating a new vision for your life, but don’t know it. If you’ve read my home page, you know that I left the world of teaching to gain a better family life balance. Mission accomplished, but still something is missing. I found myself listless,…
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Turning the Page: Embrace New Beginnings with Confidence
The Mess: The book series I’m hooked on just ended and now I have to embrace new beginnings. Anyone else ever have a book hangover? It literally makes me so sad when a whole world I’ve been living in comes to an end. I struggle to embrace new beginnings, especially in books.. The Heartbreak of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Same Team: Conflict Resolution
Have you ever found yourself in a tense situation that you didn’t create? My husband and I used to find ourselves caught up in the middle of a couple tiff that wasn’t actually our own. We always try to be on the same team. Our friend group at the time had some competitive tendencies and…
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Crabs and the Messy Process of Transformation
Today’s mess is crabs or rather the messy process of transformation in picking crabs.. If you’re from Maryland you know what I mean. Picking crabs a messy process of transformation. If you’re not, perhaps you’ve visited or enjoyed a delicious crab cake from a fancy up-scale restaurant. Maryland Blue Crabs are a delicacy, but if…
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Running Away From Chaos
The Mess: Bruised knees and bloodied hands. Have you ever tried running away from chaos? The warm weather lately has inspired me lately to get outside and move my body daily. Obviously it is great for my physical health, but I’ve noticed improvement in my mental health as well. There is something about moving my…
