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Choosing the right people
Read more: Choosing the right peopleI’m an avid listener of the Mel Robbins podcast, so when I saw an episode last fall about the 80-year Harvard study on what makes a good life, I was excited to listen. A couple years back, my youngest had just gone off to college and was taking a sociology course. One night, she told…
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You Don’t Need to Become Someone New
Read more: You Don’t Need to Become Someone NewEvery January, for most of my life, I made the same New Year’s Eve promises: This year I’ll lose weight. Spend less money. Get myself to work on time (when my kids were little—lol).And every December, I’d find myself wondering where the year went and what happened to all that motivation. We’re told that when…
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Holiday Families
Read more: Holiday FamiliesHoliday Families, sometimes you hear that and think, not me! And yet, there’s something undeniably bittersweet about it. You know the type; those people you love deeply yet only see when there’s a turkey in the oven or stockings hanging on the mantel. They’re family, yes, but the rhythm of life seems to hold us…
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Why I chose to stop drinking in a world that doesn’t know how to stop
Read more: Why I chose to stop drinking in a world that doesn’t know how to stopI chose to stop drinking regularly two years ago. When I say that, I’m not claiming to be on a sober journey and no, I don’t have a problem with alcohol. I just noticed weekend after weekend of going without it, I was happier, I was sleeping better, and I had some spare change in…
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Hi, my name is Lori and I “add to cart” for sport
Read more: Hi, my name is Lori and I “add to cart” for sportHow many times have you told yourself this holiday season, “I’m not going overboard this year” or “I’m all done shopping,” only to walk into a store and magically find more things someone in your life would “love”? My husband says if our Amazon driver misses a day, he’s going to file a wellness check.Honestly?…
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Boundaries without guilt
Read more: Boundaries without guiltIn a recent post, I spoke about how I slowly started realizing my worth. The word boundaries always felt heavy and selfish to me. My belief was simple: if I loved someone, I had to prove it by giving them everything—my time, my energy, my peace. Saying no felt like letting them down and…
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Divine timing and the quiet work of souls
Read more: Divine timing and the quiet work of soulsIt’s a small world!We’ve all said it. We’ve all heard it. That moment when you meet someone who knows your cousin’s best friend’s sister — even though they grew up hours away — and you just kind of laugh and shake your head like, How is that even possible? But the older I get, the…
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If you want a village, you have to be a villager
Read more: If you want a village, you have to be a villagerWe’ve all heard the saying “it takes a village.” Usually, it’s in reference to raising children — but honestly, it applies to almost every stage of life. We all crave connection, support, and a sense of belonging. I’ll be honest: I’m an introvert. I do love people when the time is right, but being social…
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Rewriting my inner voice
Read more: Rewriting my inner voiceIf there’s one voice that’s followed me through every stage of life, it’s the one inside my head: the critic. You know the one, the voice that whispers you’re not enough, you should’ve done better, they’re upset because of you. For far too many years, I listened to that voice without question because I thought…
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My Reiki journey
Read more: My Reiki journeystock photo My first Reiki session was not at all what I expected. I knew they worked with energy, but honestly, I didn’t even know what that meant. I read the description of the session when I booked it – “a relaxing experience”. I was surprised when the practitioner started crying almost as soon as…
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Making peace with my past
Read more: Making peace with my pastI’ve lost count of the years I carried the weight of my past mistakes like a heavy coat I couldn’t take off. Exhausting! Every wrong choice, every argument, or every time I fell short was a reminder that I wasn’t enough. I used to think that if I could just fix the present, I could…
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How I finally learned my worth
Read more: How I finally learned my worthPhoto credit: Jordyn Day It took me far longer than I care to admit to finally like who I am and celebrate my worth. It wasn’t until I was in my very late 30’s that I started to see that I was a good person who deserved to be happy. Codependency taught me to look…
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World mental health day – why awareness matters
Read more: World mental health day – why awareness mattersOctober 10th is World Mental Health Day, and for me, in recent years, it lands like a gentle nudge. A reminder to stop, breathe, and ask myself: how am I, really? This day reminds me that mental health isn’t something “other people” deal with. It’s all of us. It’s me. It’s you. It’s the quiet…
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The power of positivity: How shifting my self-talk changed everything
Read more: The power of positivity: How shifting my self-talk changed everythingThere’s a period of my life I look back on now and actually chuckle. My friend Ali and I used to have what we called our “bitching sessions.” We’d either get together or email (yes, we’re ancient) and pour out everything that was wrong in our lives, feeding off each other’s frustrations. At the time,…
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You don’t have to drink to need a 12-step program
Read more: You don’t have to drink to need a 12-step programWhen most people hear the words 12-step program, their minds immediately jump to Alcoholics Anonymous. To be fair, that was always my assumption too. I never dreamed it would be something I would benefit from. The reality is, there are 12-step programs for codependency, and they speak to your struggles just as powerfully as they…
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The voice that changed the room
Read more: The voice that changed the roomSome words live rent-free in your mind; not because they’re dramatic or loud, but because they arrived exactly when you needed them. I’ve always been anxious and terribly self-conscious. (I’ll share more about how I learned my worth in a future post.) I think this ties into everything I’ve written about so far: our life…
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A lifeline wrapped in fur
Read more: A lifeline wrapped in furRecently, a memory popped up on my Facebook from 11 years ago: the day we brought home our first puppy. From the time she was little, my daughter begged and begged for a dog. We had always been a cat household, and I kept telling her, “When the time is right.” Honestly, I wasn’t even…
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Vienna waits for you – learning to slow down and live
Read more: Vienna waits for you – learning to slow down and liveThere’s a line from one of my daughter’s favorite Billy Joel songs, Vienna, that I never truly appreciated until she read it to me like a poem. I’ve never claimed to be a huge Billy Joel fan — I think his “Uptown Girl” era ruined it for me, lol. But I digress. The point is,…
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Breaking generational curses – even now with my grown children
Read more: Breaking generational curses – even now with my grown children“I will never treat my children like that!” I used to mutter those words to my parents often, especially in my teen years. It was my small rebellion, my private promise to myself that I would do better—even if I didn’t know yet what “better” looked like. For a long time, I believed healing had…
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