[Note: this post was originally published on August 1, 2024 date] 

 Part 2 of 10 in the series, “How do I launch a business while on my burnout recovery journey?”

It may seem crazy to launch a business after going through burnout. Where does all the energy come from? How do you manage the stress?...

[Note: this post was originally published on July 30, 2024 date] 

Part 1 of 10 in the series, "How do I launch a business while on my burnout recovery journey?"

It may seem crazy to launch a business after going through burnout. Where does all the energy come from? How do you manage the stress? Ho...

[Note: this post was originally published on June 28, 2024 date] 

Letting go of things I love to allow myself to move on 

As I mentioned in my last post from late April, my little family, me and my husband, our dog, and our cat had to find a new place to live at the same time as I was about to lau...

[Note: this post was originally published on April 23, 2024 date] 

Finding balance in the chaos

 I have been remiss in posting to Substack for a while now. About as long as it took me to build this creation I’ve been working on for my business. It’s a product + service I’ve been pouring my hear...

 [Note: this post was originally published on October 7, 2023] 

How we heal

 We just passed one of my favorite times of year, the Autumnal Equinox. I love the balance between daylight and darkness that comes with this time of year.  

I also know I’m an outlier and many people dread this celestial...

 [Note: this post was originally published on September 8, 2023] 

The hard part of healing

 Healing is never a one and done sort of thing. It’s a long process, with ups, downs, some stepping back while other times stepping forward. Something that’s come up for me recently is having to accept that ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack August 25, 2023] 

You get to choose, every single day

Is there a time you can recall when you were taught about choosing? If you’re like me, it was probably about something related to food as a young child. You could have “this yummy thing” or ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack July 17, 2023] 

An ongoing journey

This has been a really hard post to write. It wasn’t your typical writer’s block conundrum of “what do I write?” I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. I’ve known it for over a month. My challenge was, “...

 [Note: this post was originally published on Substack June 8, 2023] 

Happy first anniversary!

 I started this post, like I always do, by writing a draft, then letting it marinate. This one had to marinate longer than I originally had planned. I wound up writing a completely new post that shifted ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack April 18, 2023] 

The story around my jar of Peanut M&Ms

I’ve been feeling stressed lately, which means I've been numbing myself a lot to try and cope.  It’s not my preferred way of getting through the day... anymore. I used to use numbing behav...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack March 02, 2023]

Learning to let go

I would not be able to speak now about the things that I experienced without the lessons I learned about "forgiveness". I'm not talking about the "forgive and forget" that I heard all through my childhood. Tha...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack January 25, 2023]

A little about why I'm writing

Such a beautiful moment. A young girl running carefree through a field of dandelions with nothing but the joy of childhood to look forward to.  

This isn’t me and this never happened in my life....