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Over the weekend, one of my best friends stayed with us. A few years ago, we lived in nearly identical townhouses in California, just doors apart, facing this big expanse of grass. Our kids would play for HOURS every week on that lawn, fighting with toy lightsabers or gathering leaves and flowers to …

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I distinctly remember telling my friend about a far-off dream: a page-a-day calendar filled with quotes to help women live with more authenticity and JOY. Three and a half years later, I get to share that this tiny idea eventually became a prototype (and then a second, third, fourth, and fifth) …

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I tiptoed past my kids' bedrooms and managed to get down the stairs making barely any noise. I clutched a journal and my laptop to my chest, silently sliding onto the couch—too afraid to even get a mug out of a kitchen cabinet for fear of waking the kids. I needed this time. Half an hour to …

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If I could tell you one thing today, it would be this: You don't have to be anything more than you already are in order to be enough. The first time I remember really battling feelings of inadequacy was when I became a wife and mom. I had insecurities like anybody else, but overall, I was a …

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Affirmations have been on the self-help scene for decades, but what exactly are they, and more importantly, do affirmations work? My 8-year-old daughter has been scared to go to sleep lately. She says she wakes up in the middle of the night and lies in bed scared (too scared to leave the …

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