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Faith, emotional wellness, honest conversations, and the kind of encouragement that actually helps on a hard Tuesday.
Navigating a long distance connection sent me back to The Loved Girl, which I wrote. Here is what my own prompts asked me that I did not want to answer.
Read More →Two quiet quarters, a stack of filled journal pages, and the moment I understood I was auditing my life. How The Good Girl Tax began.
Read More →The supply lists, the forms, the schedules. Somewhere underneath all of it is a woman who also needs a plan.
Read More →I wrote The Becoming Girl alone at a kitchen table. Watching women work through it together was something else entirely.
Read More →The year is half gone and the list you made in January is mostly untouched. Behind assumes a schedule somebody else set.
Read More →The holidays ask you to be merry. Grief does not care what month it is. On December 5, twelve women are going to sit with that on purpose.
Read More →The tight chest and the short fuse are not a lack of faith. They are a report on the gap between what is being asked of you and what you have.
Read More →One is between you and God. The other requires two people and changed behavior. Collapsing them has hurt a lot of women.
Read More →The message you want to send right now is usually written by your nervous system, not by you. Give yourself the gap.
Read More →We treat rest like something we earn after we have proven ourselves. Scripture treats it as a command.
Read More →A boundary is not a punishment and it is not the opposite of love. Often it is the most loving thing you can offer.
Read More →Five steps I built for myself when I had no language for what I was feeling. They became the backbone of the work.
Read More →They can feel similar in the body. They lead to completely different places. Learning to tell them apart will change how you pray.
Read More →Sensitivity is a gift. Depletion is a warning light. Most of us have been calling one the other for years.
Read More →Boundaries protect peace. Walls protect fear. Knowing which one you are building changes every relationship you have.
Read More →If God is prompting you to move, it will not feel like panic. Here is what real discernment sounds like.
Read More →The pressure to be over it by now does not come from God. Here is permission to still be in it.
Read More →In 2022 I lost my partner of six years and my grandmother in the same year. This is some of what that season taught me.
Read More →Sometimes what feels like a crisis is simply depletion. Here is how to tell the difference before you send that text.
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