Get Moving Exercise is a great way to beat the winter blues! I used to work out in the afternoons after work, but this year I have tried out morning exercise. I have found that 30 minutes of HIIT in the morning dramatically changes how my day goes. I have more energy, I’m more productive and just generally in a better mood all around. Get Social Isolation is not your friend. Making time to spend with other people is a…
I sign off all of my posts with “you are loved,” and I wanted to talk about why. I love our church. I am constantly blown away by the way they receive people and love them whole heartedly, without condition the way Christ demands. It’s something that should be a given for a church, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Our church is unique in many ways, but the way they love is the number one thing that sets…
I have been struggling with really feeling “at home” since we moved in November of 2016. Our last house was broken into in the middle of the night, while I was home alone last fall. It was one of the scariest things I have ever been through, and the road to recovery has been a long one. Soon after the break-in, we realized we would have to move. The man who was responsible lived just down the street from me,…
I have been struggling to find a way to start this post for the last month. It’s so hard to pick up where you’ve left off when you left a while ago. I want to start by apologizing for my absence. I never want to appear flaky or like I did’t mean what I said when I wrote about no longer being afraid. I definitely meant every word of that post and though it wasn’t long ago, it feels like…
First off, it feels so good to be back here. I stopped writing about a year ago, and I could say it’s because I was finishing school, or focusing on more important things. But the truth is, I was struggling with fear: fear that I would never become successful, fear that no one would read my content, fear that I wasn’t as good or creative as other bloggers. It has taken me quite some time to realize that every single…