Summer is only about 10 to 12 weeks here in the south. Before we can blink the lazy mornings and pool days turn into school shopping and cramming your reading list into the last two weeks before football season starts back up. So what should we be doing with this time? How do we maximize it with out it maximizing us? There have been many  a summer that I have gone back into fall with exhaustion and sunburn, wondering how I allowed my most precious and favorite time to be eate

The holiday’s can be so much fun!! They can also encompass too much of a good thing. I believe in moderation in almost all things. Too much sleep, your lazy. Too much sugar; you’re a glutton. Too much exercise; your obsessed. Too much of extended family; you loose relationships (Or secretly wish you could have “too much drink”). Too much of the holiday hoopla; You end up turning into The Grinch. Stress creates a flight or fight situation. Even good stress. Identifying the str

Self perception can create illogical wars and a waste of time but it is something that every single person deals with from time to time. Some deal with it more than others. It also can create such a turmoil in the head that it can break your spirit toward growth and productivity. Crushing any chances of moving forward and changing for the better. Recently I have been bombarded by some negatively. Not the ones where people attach you or say mean things but much worse. When peo

First let me just say that this “how to”  is a “me too” post. It’s a “How Too”. LOL. Today we are talking about compassion. I have had the beautiful privilege of recently walking out giving myself a break and having personal compassion! Life experience in this area has been truly one of the best things I can coach on! Let me set the stage for you: I have been playing catch up over the last couple of months. For some odd reason, I can’t ever get ahead of the laundry. Why? I h

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song. And he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, this is my Father’s God, and I will exalt him. I have actually been working on a much longer version of my story. To obey Psalms 78: 6-7 in a literal sense which says: They were to rise up and tell their children so they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep his commands. I have truly been thinking about my story for a solid

I’ve been reading a book on organic and heirloom farming that has both fascinated and challenged me. Of course I have dashed out to order seed catalogs, harvest books and swore that I will only touch grass-fed beef from now on. This is so my thing. I love this stuff. I watch every documentary on healthy lifestyles and devour self-help books.. (Whether its good information or not. I still am completely fascinated.) What surprised me was a quote from another person the author w

We all live in suspense, from day-to-day, from hour-to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.  -Mark McCarthy For those of you who have never met me in person you may not know that I was born with a “disadvantage” (or at least most people in society would assume this). I would never be able to be in professional pictures or modeling, I would never be on broadway in a really important role (despite my talents), I could never cross the monkey bars, and I would

I come from a family where certain emotions were considered weak. Well at least from my personal perspective. If you cried you were “hormonal”. If you were sappy you were being “immature”. If you were dramatic you were way too much “a girl”. Despite this we were all dramatic and loud. And the one negative emotion that I percieved to be acceptable to show in the house; Anger.  It got you attention. Raising your voice and being mean got results. Being in a home of five children

10 years ago this May I pledged my life to the man of my dreams and my very soul’s heartbeat. He is a pure gift. He makes me the best version of myself and He is perfect for me. He is the part of my story where I receive an earthly example of God’s incredible favor. He is the sand to my beach. I am blessed to call him “husband” but even more blessed to call him my best friend. We have so much fun together! Today I wanted to share the Vow I am memorizing to repeat to him this

I love being a person of zeal. I am known for it. It was actually a spiritual gift on a test in high school I took ….A Zealot. I had it as one of my number one traits. For anyone who doesn’t know… ZEAL : fever for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor. examples of zeal: enthusiasm, ardor, diligence, devotion, eagerness, fierceness. I am fierce! I also love to be that person that has it together, is cool, calm, and collected. Total

Recently someone posted a Facebook banner right after my one of my favorite holidays. Thanksgiving!!! I love it. It’s about food and putting aside all prejudice and loving and being a team. It’s about community and connectedness. It’s about the more the merrier! Anyway, the banner was laid out across a beautifully decorated table with multiple wine glasses and greenery. The banner said FRIENDSGIVING. I immediately had envy. It’s not that I didn’t have a big, fun, crazy thanks

I went for a run. It had been a long day and I was tired. After a fitful night of sleep ( my toddler was up with nightmares and my son had a dirty diaper so bad that at 5 am  I was changing sheets and clothes. I had taken my daughter to preschool with only half my coffee drunk and tears from her the whole way there complaining of everything under the sun (including that she didn’t want to wear Minnie mouse underwear that day). I ran to the store and forgot two main items. I t