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What is Work Anxiety? Work anxiety is the constant second guessing if you’re doing a good enough job.  It’s thinking about all the tasks that you have yet to do and not focusing on the one at hand.  It’s ruminating about what happened during the workday late at night in bed…. Add these anxious thoughts […]

5 Strategies to Conquer Work Anxiety

February 29, 2024

Purpose

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It takes work to build better relationships with those closest to you.  For many of us, we let the pressures of life slowly chip away at them.  If we aren’t careful what were once small cracks will widen into large chasms between two people.  Before we know it, we are left in a broken relationship […]

Ask Yourself This One Question to Build Better Relationships

November 18, 2023

Connection

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Integrating family fun in a household both strengthens a family’s bond and provides relief during challenging times. I was reminded of this one day as I was waiting in line at a local pizzeria with my two young daughters. In front of us was a mom and her teenage daughter both poking fun and laughing […]

17 Family Fun Ideas to Create a Household of Laughter

September 3, 2023

Laughter

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It wasn’t until I became a mother that God revealed my purpose in life. He stirred a passion within me to share what I have learned through my challenges in motherhood to help other moms navigate those same challenges. That is when I started this blog. “You have a purpose and I have a plan. […]

The 3 Part Framework to Foster Your Creative Passions

September 2, 2023

Purpose

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The pressures of life after having kids can slowly create a divide between you and your spouse.  If you’re not careful, that divide can become so wide that the person standing right in front of you may seem emotionally and spiritually unreachable.  It takes work to strengthen your marriage and close that divide but the […]

7 Helpful Tips to Strengthen Your Marriage After Kids

August 6, 2023

Connection

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What is mom rage? It is when the stressors of motherhood – an endless list of household duties, work, child tantrums, etc. get the best of an already tired and exhausted mom. This constant level of underlying stress leaves a mom frazzled with little to no patience left. Soon enough she will end up snapping, […]

Conquer Mom Rage with the “Three P’s”

July 21, 2023

Health

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Mothers have a unique inner strength that is both powerful and resilient. Yet she often gets worn down by the mental load of motherhood. Mom rage, guilt, anxiety, stress – these are all factors that weaken a mom’s mental toughness. In this article I will share with you the 13 things that can anchor a […]

13 Traits of Mentally Strong Mothers

July 20, 2023

Faith

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At the corner of turning forty, I found myself at the last rest stop of a 66 mile bike race. Before settling back into my seat to finish the last 8 miles, I paused to think about how I got to this point in my health journey.  Becoming an energized and fit mom was no […]

Start with This One Word to Become a Healthy & Fit Mom

June 18, 2023

Health

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Practicing gratitude requires that we understand its source first. We’ve all heard of the powerful impact of gratitude – how it provides relief from stress and anxiety. Many have claimed that it is essential to happiness, that taking note of the simple pleasures in life brings us joy. Everywhere you turn, someone is selling a […]

Practicing Gratitude Starts With This

June 16, 2023

Gratitude

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To practice gratitude we must first go backwards, recall who we once were as a child – in the most simple and untarnished of forms. Think of who you were before the world told you who to be. Remember when your standards for happiness weren’t so high? When counting the stars in the sky or […]

6 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude

June 16, 2023

Gratitude

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