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Where do you begin to write a book?
DREAM with me – even if it’s hard! You want your story to count, right? Is this occurring? Your book idea isn’t going away? You’ve tried to quiet the book message within you? You know you have limiting beliefs about your writing and they’re getting in your way to write? Where do you begin to…
How do you persevere in your purpose?
How do you persevere in your purpose? Are you worn out and worn down? Maybe it’s from the leftovers from COVID and all the changes! Do you want to give up? The uncertainties with our country and the news, the news, the news. I will tell you kindly what my father taught me as a…
How to do holidays while grieving?
How to do holidays while grieving? Do you need to learn how to trudge through grief and loss and with the Holidays approaching? Has death, divorce, devastations, and/or other disappointments smacked you up hard? Is your heart just shut down? Yet you have to get up, step forward, and yet your world has changed forever?…
How do I starve doubt?
Does doubt follow you around and taunt you? Then it jumps over your shoulders and swings right into your face smacking you up hard! Shuts you up and/or shuts you down to stop doing what you think you are meant to do. DOUBT is an enemy! And some people have lived with it so long they…
How do I process grief and loss?
Grief? Loss? How do I process grief and loss? This is a loaded and messy and HARD topic. Matter of fact, I have a written a book about this topic that is under a literary agent’s contract. What do you do with grief, loss, and how in the world do you process this painfilled package? As…
How do I become whole?
How to: become whole! Facing reality is the first step to growth. Examine your life so you can see what is working, what is not, and what needs to go. To grow, requires a humble heart. It takes honest work like removing a rose colored pair of glasses to admit, something is off in my…
How do you pull up the dead roots in your life?
How do you pull up the dead roots in your life? This past summer, I visited my brother and his wife at their lake house. My brother, Bill, was in need of getting a tree out of their yard, henceforth, this heavy stump. As we visited, my brother sawed one root away, and another root,…
How do we shift in life?
How do we shift in life? Women’s lives are full. Media feeds us false messages of who we should be. The fast pace of life leaves us harried and exhausted. Social media tempts us to compare ourselves with women in our church, community, across the nation and even around the world. We frantically scour the…
How do I face an empty nest?
How do I face an empty nest? Your last child flew the nest, another is off to college and one married this past summer. Now you wonder, how in the world can I do this? An empty house without kids? No more showers running in the wee hours of the morning nor phones pinging from…
How do you not withdraw?
How do you not withdraw? Do you excuse or escape by withdrawing? You’re sitting at a round table with women. Conversations are going on around you, but you don’t feel important enough to be invited into the talk and/or choose to speak up. You choose to take the road of least resistance, escape, pull back…
What is the first step toward change?
What is the first step toward change? You recognize and admit that you can’t stay like you are. You want more from life. You want more than the pain of just existing! You know you were made for more. Yet self doubt sneaks in. Yet, you’re ready to step, even if wobbly. And that is OKAY!…
How do you learn from the pain of life?
How do you learn from the pain of life? Stop. It’s opposite than what we think. Stop doing. Stop running. Stop ruminating. Stop. Can you, stop? Once upon a time, that was very hard for me. I ran away from it and hid behind doing and doing and more doing. Until, my internal engines were…