Category: Mental Health
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Mid Year Book Review (July 2025)
Let’s dig back through Goodreads and see how far we’ve come. My goal this year was 25 books. I am not lofty like several of my friends. Last year my goal was 20 and I ended the year at 17, however, this year I found my love of novels again and so set my goal…
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Finding Calm Amid Holiday Chaos: Reflections on Family
Rooms simple, clean, and festive. Twinkling lights brighten the rooms and hints of red, green, and white glaze the normally neutral tones of our home. A stocking hangs on either side of the TV and embroidered with the letters ‘E’ and ‘Z’. It’s 4:30am on Tuesday morning as I push start on the coffee machine.…
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So You Ate a Lot for Thanksgiving and Now You’re Heading Straight into Christmas Cookie Season…
Let’s be honest, you can ‘detox’ from Thanksgiving all you want, but the reality is that you are looking Christmas Cookies in the face just a few days later. As a food-focused society we cycle into the unimaginable — eat a lot, detox, eat a lot, detox, eat a lot : Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years we…
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Planning the Travel for 2025
Jon and I have a running list we share in the cloud of places we want to visit. Why do we prioritize travel? It allows use to get out of our comfort zone, it allows us a reset, it allows us to explore more of God’s creation, and helps us keep a fresh perspective. There…
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Embracing Forever, an Ebook on Adoption Tips & Resources is Almost Here!
When I started compiling the notes from our adoption journey writing a short form ebook about it wasn’t necessarily at the top of my list, what was on my list was to try to consolidate the process in more ways than one. Grants, paperwork, training all replicated over and over there had to be a…
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Finding Joy and Peace in Summer Parenting Challenges: A Prayerful Reflection
Transitions are hard, for anybody. As adults career changes, family changes, monumental schedule changes it’s all a challenge
Fueling Her Forward 