This morning I walked into our house after a jog and felt this immense gratitude for the place that’s the staging ground for so many of our family memories: Home. Granted, most of the time, the pillows are on the ground, homework is on the coffee table, and the floors are covered with crumbs, but …
The Dark Side of Donating
Our bus rattled to a stop on the side of a dirt road, the driver motioning with his hands that we should all pile out. We stepped down from the bus and into the dusty brush of a Zambian landscape. The driver and a few volunteers set to work on a flat tire. The rest of us would wait. The …
Permission to Unfollow: Social Media and Emotional Health
A couple of years ago, I was following a woman on social media. I liked that she didn’t try to paint herself as perfect. For every styled-out photo she posted of herself holding a cup of coffee with beautifully manicured hands, she shared one of herself with a wild-haired toddler on her hip and not …
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5 Exhausting Pressures Parents Can Let Go Of Forever
Prior to becoming a parent myself, I was a Know-It-All. Shortly after joining the ranks of motherhood, I quickly became a Do-It-All. Let me explain the difference. A Know-It-All simply believes they know everything. A Do-It-All actually attempts to act on everything they know. You know, …
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Mess Causes Stress: 11 Rules for Messy People Who Want to Get Tidy
My friend Sydney’s husband—a man far too young to be bound to his bed—recently tripped and fell while walking through their cluttered home. It was the kind of accident that could happen to any of us. A simple fall. But somehow it damaged his spinal cord… limiting his mobility for the rest of his …
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8 Questions to Help You Let Go of Your Hard-to-Let-Go-of-Things
She'd had an easy enough time getting rid of the crib, the pack n' play, and the baby swing. They were bulky, and she was happy to get her space back. As her children grew, even their clothes were relatively easy to part with, because most of the time, those clothes had been worn to threads. …
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