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Persist Like A Lotus

Persist Like A Lotus

Hello there readers. I hope that you are feeling and doing well ❤ Today I want to talk about the Lotus flower and why we can all learn something from it (especially with what is going on in the world right now). The lotus is a beautiful flower that originates in Asia. The thing that makes this flower so special is the way that it grows. “The Lotus plant is an aquatic perennial, native to southern Asia and Australia and…

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More Than Just A Mom: Finding Connection and Identity

More Than Just A Mom: Finding Connection and Identity

The word rut seems to be the word for 2020 so far. It has been a difficult few months. While I still don’t believe that two-year-olds are “terrible”  sometimes they are HARD to manage.  I have been feeling some serious parent burnout lately. Being home all day with a 2-year-old and socializing for the most part, with only one adult, my husband, day in day out can leave me feeling pretty understimulated mentally, a bit isolated and honestly pretty lonely….

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On Being Tested

On Being Tested

I once heard Oprah say in a podcast that you have to be careful what you ask for because sometimes the things we ask God, a higher power, or the universe for will come to us in ways we may not expect. For example, you might ask for something like courage, and then you’ll be faced with terrifying events in your life that give you no choice but to be courageous. If I remember correctly she joked that the year…

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Learning to Grow (& speaking up)

Learning to Grow (& speaking up)

When I was in my 2nd year of high school, one of my media shop teachers did an activity where we all sat at a round table and he went one by one and told us what he perceived to be our “fatal flaw”. In my life, there have been a handful of memories that really stand out — defining moments if you will — and this particular memory is one of them. My fatal flaw was: I’m afraid to speak…

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