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In all this craziness, I am convinced that opening our home to others, in the midst of the chaos of life, is so worth it.

In this blog post, I'll give you eight suggestions for making memorable envelopes that are fun to put together and even more fun to receive!

It is not surprising that postpartum body acceptance is a major narrative in mental health following delivery. Here you’ll find the letter I wish someone had written to me after laboring my first, second, and third babies into the world.

We’ve all been there. That longing to be in and feel like we belong in a space. Sometimes it’s even worse, in that we don’t feel like we deserve to be there in the first place.

As studies have emerged about the power of yoga to heal trauma, we’re able to understand more about exactly why it is an effective treatment modality. Whether you suffer from panic attacks, mild anxiety, or are currently digging into the hard work of healing trauma, I think yoga is for you.

Hello, my name is the Queen of all emotions. 

I know them all – intimately, even. I’ll spell them out for you, follow the trail of breadcrumbs, and show you how I experience them within the span of half a day.

Firstly and most importantly, you are doing just fine. Honestly, you are doing better than fine. You are crushing it.

Self-discovery is a lifelong process and it’s not just going to happen overnight, but I’ve really been trying to start the journey! I think that if I’m going to spend the rest of my life with myself, I may as well develop and be happy with who I am.  

For a while, I followed the lie that I wasn’t needed. It was a naturally born conclusion, one I discovered one day when I looked up and saw my life-path segmented into blank blocks waiting to be filled by someone else. I continued walking, waiting for friends, family, or even strangers to magically fly into the spaces, to “need” me. 

Discipline isn’t really a word we like to hear.

It might bring back terrible memories of time-outs from your parents or struggling through things you really don’t like doing. Discipline is rarely fun, and it definitely isn’t sexy, especially in the small things. 

We’ve forgotten that oftentimes togetherness is what most heals us. 

If you are struggling to feel at home in any physical space in your life right now, I hope these tips can help you to dig into those spaces and find a deep rootedness, a home, there.

While it is my job to impart wisdom and direction, whether in life or just how to organize a binder, I never realized I would be the one to do the learning. 

If you had ten minutes with your pregnant self, what would you tell her with the benefit of hindsight? What would you quietly whisper in her ear? Some helpful tidbits that would set her off in the right direction. Here's what I would say…

This morning, I told my mom that airports are good for two things: running and crying. 

“And getting to your destination,” she added. (My mom is always the one who brings me back to earth.) 

I wanted to write these words to remind you that a few people is still a community.

If you’re reading this and your heart is overcome because that desert place is a raw reality of where you’re walking today, then I’d like to encourage you with three simple but meaningful truths the desert imparted to me.

So what do you do when the prospect of love just seems like fools’ gold? What do you do when thirty-something married couples tell you “Twenty-seven is so young”? What happens when you feel foolish for hoping for love and immature for not being able to take the long-view of this whole thing?

We want the story where everything magically falls into place, where some effort is required but not too much, where the thing we’ve decided to do takes off immediately and we’ve suddenly jumped the gap from dream life to real life.

But here’s the rub: that isn’t how it usually works.