In our culture, we have this false narrative that we need to excel at everything we do. If we try something, and we aren’t a natural, we feel ashamed, or think ‘this just isn’t for me.’ No one stretches themselves, no one learns, if things come easy. It doesn’t even make sense that you would …
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Love yourSELF.
What part of your body have your learned to hide whenever a photo is being taken? Do you stick your jaw out to avoid the double chin? Do you suck in your gut or dive behind someone shorter? Do you put one foot in front of the other to make your thighs appear thinner? Or …
Love Yourself.
I think it's fairly safe to say that this is a group made up of do-gooders. Our quaranspring has been spent washing, cutting, sewing, and delivering. We care about others. We want to see the world be better. We would work ourselves to the bone for the good of our community, we would sacrifice anything …
Homemade Sourdough Bread
It's QuaranSpring, so what is everyone doing? Making BREAD of course! I have been sharing my starter with friends, and experimenting a lot, so here is my Sourdough bread recipe! Homemade Sourdough Bread 1 c Sourdough Starter 1.5 t active yeast 3/4 c warm water 2 T brown sugar 1-2 T salt 3-4 c flour …
Who are you, really?
As author Glennon Doyle Milton says, “ask a woman who she is, and she will tell you who she loves.” This is absolutely beautiful. But it can also be quicksand. When our entire sense of self is invested externally, then external changes can cut us adrift. Life is change. Careers change. Relationships change. Children grow …
There’s a Next Chapter.
A lot of us have lost a lot this year. Jobs, relationships, concepts of this world as a safe place. For many people, this feels like a dead end. It's terrifying, it's dark, and it's hard to see the hope in any of this. Can I tell you a story? There was a time in …
Stop. Apologizing.
We as women have been socialized to apologize for everything we do. It pops out of our mouth like a reflex. What do you say (well, in the before times) when you pass by someone in the store? Not excuse me, but SORRY. Usually in this weirdly murmered, half eye-contact sort of way. What do …
Gratitude
Cultivating a lifestyle of gratitude has been a life changing practice for me. Even when I am at my lowest, it helps me to realize that I have so many more things to be grateful for than to mourn. When my patience is gone and my temper has snapped, choosing to focus on gratitude as …
Reach Out
Y’all. Things are hard right now. Quarantine is real. Jobs have been lost. People have been sick, people have died. We have lost pretty much any semblance of normal life, and there’s no telling when and if things will go back to the way they used to be.  Other people – essential workers – …
Look Through Another’s Eyes
Today would have been Ahmaud Arbery's 26th birthday. Instead, as you probably have heard, he died in February, while out for a run. My life has undergone an absolute transformation in the past 5 years. I view the world, and pretty much everything about it, differently. Why? Because I sat down with myself and truly …
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