8 Surprising Tips for Reducing Anxiety – With Your Thoughts

8 Surprising Tips for Reducing Anxiety – With Your Thoughts

Anxiety impacts all of us.  Even if you’ve never experienced clinical levels of anxiety yourself, chances are high that someone in your circle has.  1 in 4 Americans will experience anxiety at some point in their lives. When we have a problem (with anxiety or with...
How to Live the Story You Want to Tell

How to Live the Story You Want to Tell

“Live the story you want to tell”. I recently heard this Becky Higgins say this on the Cultivate a Good Life podcast (which I highly recommend) and I LOVE this quote! Most of us don’t live intentionally.  Instead, we live in default mode and we don’t pay that much...
How to Love Difficult People

How to Love Difficult People

Luke 6:32 says “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them.” For most of us, it’s easy to be loving and kind when people are kind to us.  Loving difficult people, on the other hand, is much more...
When Life Feels Unfair, Read This

When Life Feels Unfair, Read This

I recently listened to an episode of Cultivate a Good Life (an amazing podcast, by the way!) called Show Up!  The guest, Natalie Norton, was sharing her story…and it was heartbreaking. Her beloved brother passed away and shortly afterward, she lost her infant son to...
Why We Need to Cancel “Cancel Culture”

Why We Need to Cancel “Cancel Culture”

The term “cancel culture” has been buzzing around quite a bit lately. So what is cancel culture?  Is it even a real thing? Wikipedia defines this trend as “a form of public shaming in which targets are publicly humiliated on the internet, via social media platforms,...
Love Intentional Living? Why You Should Try Scrapbooking

Love Intentional Living? Why You Should Try Scrapbooking

I know a lot of people who are not interested in scrapbooking. Typically, they say they don’t have time, it’s too expensive, or they just don’t like it.  Some people hesitate to cut up their photos, and others think traditional scrapbooking layouts look tacky or...