by Debra Smouse | May 16, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
Once upon a time, I became convinced that if I had a perfect body, then I would be able to fix my failing marriage. I worked out seven days a week and spent at least two hours a day at the gym. I worked out with a personal trainer, attended spin classes, and in...
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 9, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
I hear from women all the time who are under such constant stress and strain that they are flirting on the edges of burnout. They are managing family responsibilities, work tasks, and have so little white space in their lives that they have lost sight of who they are....
by Debra Smouse | Jan 16, 2025 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
I know something about you, darling. You have these delicious nuggets of desire, big dreams, and these longings of ideas that you know would work if you dared. Yet you don’t move forward with any kind of vision. Perhaps it’s because you don’t know where to start...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 21, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
It’s almost Christmas as I write this, darling. And while I know that you you may not celebrate the Christmas. Or maybe, this year, you just don’t feel like celebrating Christmas. You soul is simply feeling tired. Everywhere I go, it seems as if folks are a little...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 28, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
It’s the week of Thanksgiving for those of us in the States. And the one day of the year that most folks stop to ponder the things they are thankful for in their lives. I encourage you to use this time of year to consider that, just like the joy of turkey sandwiches...