Erica Note! This is a guest post from Krista O’Reilly-Davi-Digui, joyful living educator and writer of A Life In Progress. What I love about Krista is how willing she is to get vulnerable with her readers, and this post is no exception. Enjoy. I sat on the cold rental chair in my tub, naked, …
This Is Our Love Story (And Maybe Yours Too)
We're a decade into our love story. It started with a boy who appeared on my doorstep during my sophomore year of college. Last night, that same boy tiptoed into our sons' bedroom and did a math app with one son while the other snoozed soundly in his bed. Tonight, that same boy who proposed with …
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This Is My Pillow. That Is Yours.
When I read Scary Close by Donald Miller (mini-review here), he shared an analogy that his therapist once gave him, saying how he WISHED he had learned it years earlier. I'm with him. It's a great visual to help you tread more mindfully in your friendships, marriage, and even your role as a …
An Energy that Won’t Be Bottled Up: Why Self-Love Matters
You know the days when you're high on life and eager to spread it around? How many of those days have you been having lately? The other night when my husband came home from work, I'd been having one. I talked a mile a minute, telling him about my new barre class, cute things the kids had said, and …
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What Makes Marriage Hard? These 5 Things (Among Others)
I wrote this post three years ago. For some reason—maybe it's the fact that my husband and I are now approaching one decade together—it's been on my mind lately. I was hungry to re-read it and see if I still feel the same way. Good news—I do! I took the chance to fill it in a bit more and bring it …
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2014 Wrap-up & Thank You!
It was a productive year here at Let Why Lead! I did a re-design, wrote 9 articles for other sites, finally started a newsletter, made some wonderful new friends and connections, hosted round two of the Marriage Diaries, got quoted in the WSJ, and published 122 posts. Phew! (All for barely any money …
