Power Games in Relationships Are Insecurity in Disguise
You may not call it a power game at first. You may just notice that certain conversations leave you feeling off-balance. That you’re suddenly explaining something you didn’t think needed defending. Or that you’ve started paying way too much attention to someone else’s...
3 Ways to Feel More Present in Your Everyday Life
If your days have started to blur together a little, you may be craving that feeling of being more present in your own life instead of always hurrying toward the next thing. Not because anything is terribly wrong. Maybe life is perfectly fine. You’re just moving...
The Myth of Reinvention: You Don’t Owe Anyone a New Era
You can love your life and still want to change something about it. You can be proud of the woman you’ve become and still wonder what else might fit you now. Maybe you want more energy, a different rhythm, a new challenge, or simply to feel a little more awake inside...
Getting Back to Your Roots Without Going Backward
Getting back to your roots doesn’t mean squeezing yourself back into an old version of your life like a pair of jeans from 2007. Maybe parts of your past really were too small for you. Certain expectations may have felt tight enough that you spent years trying to...
Stop Trying to Prove Your Worth
Maybe you’ve spent so much time measuring yourself against other women, other lives, or some invisible standard that you’ve started to believe you come up short. Less accomplished or attractive. Less interesting. Less successful. Somehow not quite as chosen, polished,...
Why Decluttering and Organizing is So Important for Your Well-Being
Decluttering and organizing can make a surprisingly big difference in how a home feels to live in. Not because a tidy house makes you a better person, and certainly not because every drawer needs matching containers. But when you’re constantly moving things out of the...
You Don’t Need a Perfect Life to Have a Beautiful Day
It is easy to postpone happiness without realizing it. You tell yourself that things will feel better when work becomes less stressful, the house is finally organized, finances improve, a difficult problem disappears, or life generally becomes more settled. The...
A Monthly Reset for When You Need a Fresh Start
A monthly reset is useful when the month behind you feels a little tangled. Maybe nothing was ruined or wasted, and maybe there is nothing to be truly frustrated about. You just feel discombobulated for a number of reasons you can’t quite put your finger on....
Granting Permission to Love Your Life
There’s something about September that still makes me think about permission. Maybe it’s all those years of Back to School, when change was simply built into the season. New teachers, new classes, new clothes, new routines, new things to learn, and, if you were lucky,...
How to Build a Personal Syllabus for a Life That Actually Interests You
A personal syllabus sounds a little trendy, I know. It also sounds suspiciously close to homework. And depending on your relationship with school supplies, that may either delight you or make you want to go lie down. But stay with me, because this idea doesn’t have to...
Three Ways to Stop Feeling Stuck in a Rut and Enjoy Your Life Again
Sometimes an ordinary routine starts feeling a little too ordinary. Tuesday looks suspiciously like Wednesday, and Wednesday is apparently planning to impersonate Thursday. The same errands get run, the same chores get done, and the same conversations happen....
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