Drop the Mom Guilt: Why Daycare Can Empower Career Moms and Their Kids

Mom Guilt SUCKS! It’s one of the biggest obstacles to achieving authentic happiness as a Career Mom. Feeling all the Mom Guilt feels over daycare? Here are some tips to ditch that drama, so you can ...

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COVID Closet Tears: Balancing Gratitude and Overwhelm as a Career Mom During the Pandemic

I cried on my closet floor this morning. I said goodbye to my husband again for another week of travel, and then I crumpled to my knees in the closet while tears streamed down. Not because I don’t k...

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Girl, Get Some Sleep: How We Ended Our Kids’ 5 AM Wake-Up Calls

Are youĀ sleeping at night? 😓 Like, really sleeping, for 7-9 hours? It feels like nothing else matters when you can’t get any sleep, and our kids, albeit adorable, are one of the biggestĀ reasons we l...

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And Then There Were...Still 3: Reflections on Loss, Faith, and Finding Strength After Miscarriage

The longer I’m on this plant the more amazed I am at the number of experiences that come into our lives—so frequently for us all, it seems—that are utterly and deeply humbling. We experience challenge...

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Christmas Mourning: Embracing Loss, Change, and the Joy of Building New Traditions

Nick and I are playing host for part of Christmas this year, and I am counting down the hours until all the madness unfolds! Lexi and Jordan’s family is coming to stay with us on the 23rd, and Jana an...

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Let’s Get Down to Busyness: Navigating Career, Family, and the Fear of Doing It Wrong

These days…so. Much. BUSYNESS.

And is it enough? Is it ever enough? Can there be enough, or at least the feeling of enough?

Or too much…is it sometimes too much? Because sometimes it feels like way....

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Overcoming Fear To Play Life Full Out

Anyone else grow up in a really competitive household? It wasn’t necessarily that we competed with each other (sometimes), but in general, it was a Type A atmosphere, and everyone moved through it wit...

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That's Not How It Works: Defying Expectations to Pursue Big, Audacious Dreams

Truth: IfĀ everyone thinks your dream or plan is a good idea, you're probably playing small. Most people don’t think BIGĀ things are possible for them, so they don’t think big things are possible for yo...

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6 Steps to Creating Lasting Life Change: How to Break Old Patterns and Transform Your Future

C H A N G E 😨

Such a loaded word. We love to hate it, don't we? We want different results in our lives, but we don't wantĀ anything to have to change to get them. We're conditioned to want (and expect...

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Brace for Impact: Learning to Live After Loss

Losing Mom was one of those things in life that I couldn't prepare for. You can't prepare for that kind of loss, for that kind of unknown.Ā TheĀ years Mom was sick are the same years I was really gettin...

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A Legacy of Strength: Reflections on Mom's Cancer Battle

I was a sophomore in college when we found out my mom had cancer. I’ve often told people that I reacted like someone that didn’t know anything about anything about cancer, which is to say, I thought y...

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