Want to slow down and savor more? Begin a gratitude journal.
Six years ago, I did something that would forever change my life. I started a gratitude journal.
Category: Growth
How to give yourself grace in your health goals this year
New Years Day used to be one of my favorite holidays, but for all the wrong reasons.
Not everyone will understand you
Some people will be committed to misunderstanding you. I’m sorry, but it’s true.
Three Ways to Rediscover Who You Are
I teach middle schoolers, and from the beginning of the year to the end, something mysterious happens: They lose more of the child in their heart.
Forgiveness may not change their heart, but it frees yours
When we try to escape forgiveness, we begin to build a wall. Brick-by-brick we praise our strength and admire just how efficiently we can protect our hearts.
The gift of being normal
“You’re a normal person.” To be honest, it’s a comment that would have destroyed me in my 20s.
You don’t have to prove your pain to anyone.
I used to invite everyone into my pillow fort. Most people hadn’t earned my trust, but I gave it to them anyways.
What do you do with a bully?
It is a lie I was told long ago: “One day, you’ll escape the bully.” Only then, I grew up and came face-to-face with a painful, incredibly disappointing reality: The bully will follow you.
Hope is stronger than any virus.
It won’t always be this way. I’m whispering it to you. I’m whispering it to me.