by Debra Smouse | Dec 15, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
We sat across the table from each other, sharing hot cups of coffee and pieces of a decadent chocolate cake I had made earlier in the week. One of my closest friends had come over to catch up. We talked of love and fear and laughter and home and the daily joys and...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 10, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Darling, let’s be honest: every day, everywhere, we hide behind masks. Not the cute Halloween kind—but the subtle disguises that keep the world from seeing who we really are. The coworker who seems “perfectly put together”? She’s masking exhaustion. The Instagram...
by Debra Smouse | Aug 25, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
The other morning, I woke up at 4 a.m. I had logged a solid six hours of sleep, and my mind was convinced it was time to get up and begin the day with purpose and productivity. My body, on the other hand, was unimpressed by this plan. We negotiated. I didn’t leap out...
by Debra Smouse | Apr 22, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
When it comes to happiness, you may be wondering where authenticity comes in. Because I know that in order to be happy, we must be able to be ourselves. Warts and all, so to speak. Yet, the flip-side of all that authenticity is that if you are authentic without...
by Debra Smouse | Mar 20, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
Once upon a time, I believed that in order to be happy and seen as worthy of love, I had to follow the rules. Now, these weren’t rules you’d find in a book. Rather, they were the expectations of what Good Southern Girls SHOULD do. And if I were to...
by Debra Smouse | Mar 3, 2025 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
When my ex-husband moved out of our house after seventeen years there together, one of the first things I did was head to a local home improvement store to buy flowers. Though that was more than two decades ago, I can still clearly see the gold and bronze mums I...
by Debra Smouse | Feb 28, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
If you were to ask me what one of my superpowers is, I’d probably tell you it’s my ability to get stuff done. Yep, I like to set a goal or objective and dive in. And the thing is, most of the time, I prefer to do it on my own. Because, of course,who can do...