by Debra Smouse | Nov 3, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
We all know gratitude is “good for us,” but let’s be honest: it can also feel like one more thing on the to-do list. You want to feel grateful, but when life feels busy (or heavy), forcing yourself to write the same “I’m grateful for my family, my home, my coffee”...
by Debra Smouse | Oct 20, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
The end of the year often brings a surge of energy—the “finish strong” mindset, the lists of goals still unchecked, and the pressure to wrap up everything neatly before January. But that drive can quickly turn into overwhelm, stress, and self-criticism. If you’ve ever...
by Debra Smouse | Oct 2, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Life has a way of piling it all on at once: work deadlines, family needs, that never-ending to-do list. Feeling pulled in too many directions isn’t a sign you’re failing, darling, rather it’s a sign you’re human. What you can do is pause, grab your journal, and use it...
by Debra Smouse | Oct 1, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Raise your hand if you’ve ever said “yes” to something you absolutely didn’t want to do. Then spent the entire time silently resenting it. Yep, welcome to the club! Membership? Most of us. People-pleasing feels noble in the moment (look at me being so helpful and...
by Debra Smouse | Sep 26, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
It feels like the moment school supplies hit the store shelves, the holiday whirlwind begins. Back-to-school morphs into Halloween costumes, which tumble into Thanksgiving menus, Christmas trees, and New Year’s countdowns. From September straight through January, life...
by Debra Smouse | Sep 18, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Using fun journal prompts is like giving your brain a spa day — with zero cucumbers on your eyes. Life piles up fast — the spilled coffee, the “reply-all” email disaster, the cat knocking over your plant for the seventh time this week — and suddenly every tiny...
by Debra Smouse | Sep 5, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Sometimes it’s a smell, a song, or even a familiar phrase that pulls you back to a moment you wish you could forget. That’s why journal prompts for forgiving yourself can be so powerful. They give you a safe place to start when you don’t know where to begin — helping...