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It’s June

It’s June, can you believe it? In three weeks, summer officially begins. But if you live in a similar climate as I do, here in Pennsylvania, you know the best weather of the year is happening right now. The humidity hasn’t set in yet, the mornings are cool, and the temperature hits a pleasant seventy degrees somewhere in the middle of the day. There is something life giving about coming through the cold of winter and the rains of spring, and stepping into the warm, bright days of summer. The days are longer, meaning it is easier to get up [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-29T20:06:36+00:00June 3rd, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Freedom, Hope, Making Decisions, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Becoming One With Room For Two

Do you remember the feeling you had when you and your spouse first fell in love? Not just the warm, fuzzy, floating on air stuff, but also the feeling that you couldn’t get enough of each other? It’s almost like taking that first bite into a perfect pizza. It is so delicious, you don’t ever want to stop eating it. Or finding a book you love so much you don’t ever want it to end. Or hitting replay on your new favorite song, believing you’ll never get tired of it. Except, you have this feeling for a person. A person [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-19T13:57:02+00:00May 20th, 2019|Categories: Balance, Freedom, Health, Identity, Marriage, perseverance, Purpose, Relationships, Uncategorized|6 Comments

What Holds Us Back: The Fear of Criticism

"What will people think?” Sometimes, what is holding us back is as simple as these four little words. Seconded only by “What will people say?” The power that these two small questions have is incalculable. Because, no matter where we were born, what our family was like, or where we went to school, we all know the sting of criticism. And it is our natural response to try to avoid the pain. Only what happens when the thing you know you’re meant to do, the thing you should do, or the thing you can’t stop dreaming about—could put you in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-04-18T14:50:53+00:00April 22nd, 2019|Categories: Anxiety, Calling, Change, Courage, Failure, Fear, Freedom, Hope, Making Decisions, perseverance, Rejection, Success, Uncategorized|4 Comments

What Holds Us Back: Knowing Too Much

A few months after I moved to Pennsylvania, I was in a car accident. In a rush to answer a call, an EMT vehicle driving in front of me, unexpectedly backed up over the hood of my car. It had missed the street it was supposed to take. And, even though I hadn’t been following it too closely, and had braked when the driver stopped, he hit me. My car was a mess. I was injured. I was in a new state, and I didn’t have a clue where to send my car to get fixed, or who to ask [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-04-03T20:30:50+00:00April 15th, 2019|Categories: Fear, Freedom, perseverance, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What is Holding You Back?

A little over a month ago, I got the Winter Blues. I was tired of the grey skies, cold weather, and being inside. Only, it felt like it was more than that. Just as the winter seemed never ending, so too did a few circumstances in my life. Being inside day after day, only seemed to accentuate my situation, and I just wanted an escape. So, I turned to beach reads. You know, those books you’re supposed to read while you’re actually sitting in the sand, on the beach, in the sun? The ones that take place in dreamy summer [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-03-25T20:03:05+00:00April 1st, 2019|Categories: Change, Courage, Freedom, perseverance, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead November 8, 2018

It hardly seems possible that we’re already into November. Perhaps it’s because it took until the middle of October to finally begin to feel like fall. But, as soon as it was cool enough to wear big sweaters and boots, I had a feeling that before we knew it, the Holiday’s would be on our door step. Thankfully though, we have a few weeks yet before Thanksgiving, and a little more time to enjoy the beauty of this season. For me, this fall has looked like coming up with new paleo recipes involving the apples we picked at a local [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-11-03T14:15:03+00:00November 8th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Freedom, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Saying No, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What Do You Believe?

It may be strange to talk about a Christmas movie in April, but I am going to. One of my favorite Christmas movies that makes me laugh so hard, is Elf. Though I know Will Ferrell is an acquired taste, in this movie he cracks me up. Every time he starts to sing (“I’m in a store, and I’m singing…”), or attacks people for their lack of genuine Christmas spirit (“You sit on a throne of lies…”), I just can’t even. But as outlandish as this movie is, there is a part of Buddy the Elf’s story we can all [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:44:40+00:00April 16th, 2018|Categories: Change, Freedom, Health, perseverance, Uncategorized|1 Comment

Love On April Fools

B&B hosts tell the best stories. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, or if you follow my Instagram, you know I love to travel. For me and Tony, it’s probably our favorite thing to do together. Early in our marriage, we discovered we really enjoy staying at Bed and Breakfasts. AirB&B or traditional B&B’s, we are in. And on our travels, we’ve had some incredible hosts. One of our favorite’s, we’ll call her “V,” we met in Northern Ireland. We stayed in her charming B&B for a few days, while checking out Giant’s Causeway, Dunluce Castle, and [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-03-29T06:30:19+00:00March 29th, 2018|Categories: Courage, Faith, Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Story, Uncategorized|7 Comments

Spring Cleaning & Telling Stories P. 2

For the first part of this post, click here. I remember the feeling of the cold medal chair frame in my hands. I was holding onto the sides of the chair as if to keep me from running out of the room. I had just told my life story. People I barely knew were weighing in. They were told to. It was part of an exercise for our counseling class; each of us had to tell our story, then share what we observed in each other’s. Not a big deal. I didn’t have a tragic or sordid past. I had gone [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-17T00:31:20+00:00March 12th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Freedom, Health, Hope, Mental Health, Story|3 Comments

#metoo

“It’s not the lips of a prince that will save us, but our own lips speaking.” —Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds Over the past year, the victims of sexual assault and harassment were finally given a microphone. Where so many, for so long, were silenced, a collective sigh was felt as finally truths were spoken. Light was cast on not simply one-time offenses, but rather repeated patterns of abuse and misuse. And men who were made gods in our culture, toppled from their pedestals. Suddenly oblivious men posted on social media that it wasn’t safe to be a [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-17T00:38:05+00:00March 8th, 2018|Categories: Freedom, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off

It’s June

Becoming One With Room For Two

What Holds Us Back: The Fear of Criticism

What Holds Us Back: Knowing Too Much

What is Holding You Back?

Love Learn Lead November 8, 2018

What Do You Believe?

Love On April Fools

Spring Cleaning & Telling Stories P. 2

#metoo

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