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Thankful, On The Fourth of July

Here in the US, many of us today will wake up looking forward to a cookout with friends or family. We’ll be thinking about the food we’re going to bring, or who will be at the party. There will be hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, and maybe even our Aunt’s famous Jello cake, all in Red, White, and Blue. And in the evening, we’ll sit on a blanket in the grass somewhere, or in front of our TV at home, to watch fireworks. After all, it’s July 4th. A day that marks our country’s declaration of freedom should be celebrated this [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-05T15:39:08+00:00July 4th, 2019|Categories: Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

Five Great Ways To Connect With Friends

A few years ago, I remember going to the movies with a new friend. We had both realized we were reading the same book in hopes of finishing it in time to see the movie when it came out in theaters. So, we decided to go see the movie together. The week it came out, we got to the theater really early. As the two of us sat in our seats, in the dark, waiting for the previews to start, all of a sudden, I felt nervous. What are we going to talk about? I began to wonder. Then I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-19T13:11:02+00:00June 27th, 2019|Categories: Food, Friendship, Habit Making, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Team Schlies Travel Guide (Repost)

As travel is one of our favorite things, and these tips still serve us well, today I am reposting our Travel Guide. Enjoy! For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. —Aldous Huxley For those of us who love to travel, Huxley’s words seem both dramatic, and somewhat true. Leaving one’s home to explore the world, can take our time, money, energy, and even, our comfort. But, if you’ve been bitten by the wanderlust bug, like we have—for the most part, you’re [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-13T13:25:59+00:00June 20th, 2019|Categories: Food, Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Rewiring Our Body Image: #MyBodyHas

Do you remember the first time you had a negative thought about your body? I know I don’t. All I know is I was young, and that since then, there have been too many to count. Sometimes, thoughts of shame about my body have come as easily to me as breathing. They fly through my brain and land in my heart bringing a heaviness that is hard to shake. Because they’ve been making their appearance for years now, they leave in their wake a sense of defeat. They tell me my body will never be enough. My body that has [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-12T16:13:11+00:00June 13th, 2019|Categories: #mybodyhas, Acceptance, Beauty, Body Image, Courage, Freedom, Good Books, gratitude, Health, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

My Favorite Summer Reads for 2019

Did I ever tell you, I grew up near the ocean? Now landlocked, I have to say I miss it much more than I thought I would. Just recently, during a stressful week, I joked to Tony that I was going to put my headphones on, and turn my white noise app to the sound of the ocean. Then, sit out on our porch in the sun, close my eyes, and pretend I was at the beach. The ocean is my happy place. Of course, another one of my happy places is curled up somewhere reading. So if I could [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-03T16:14:14+00:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: Good Books, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Five Ways to Better Communicate With Your Spouse

It was a warm, sunny day, and the stone streets felt hard under my sandaled feet. There was an event going on in the city so there were people everywhere I looked. We were on a small and winding medieval street in the middle of Siena, Italy. Tony was walking a little ways behind me, but I didn’t stop. I was upset. Only I wasn’t even sure why. All I knew was it felt like Tony and I were speaking a different language. I felt unseen, and like I could cry any minute. That is why I was breaking one [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-23T13:53:55+00:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Conflict, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Five Date Ideas to Keep the Romance Alive

When you first fall in love, almost anything can be considered an amazing date because you’re together. Going to the movies, eating leftover Chinese food, hanging out at each other’s places—heck, even grocery shopping is fun. But what about when you’ve been married for a while, and curling up on the couch to binge Netflix, starts to get old? As we talked about in Monday’s post, with all of our real life responsibilities, it can be difficult to make time for each other. And it can be easy for us to fall into ruts romantically. To count our time in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-23T11:54:23+00:00May 23rd, 2019|Categories: Habit Making, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Does Your Marriage Need a Chore Chart?

You know you had one. Whether it was in your head or your diary, posted on your mirror or hidden deep in your heart—when you were single, you had a list. Though it maybe embarrassing to admit now, because as least at one point it described a movie star more than anyone you knew in real life, you had one. You had a list of what you were looking for in a spouse. Tall or short, athletic or nerdy, you had some sort of picture in your head of who you wanted to marry. Maybe even down to what color [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-07T19:44:57+00:00May 16th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Conflict, Habit Making, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Three Things To Remember in a Fight

No one likes conflict. In fact, that is why so many couples who’ve been together for years, feel disconnected from one another: they’ve avoided their struggles by pretending they aren’t there. They’ve let them pile up, until there is a wall between them. The only solution is to do the hard work of dismantling the wall (including getting help), or get out. None of us want to choose the latter. None of us want our marriage to end. That is why, no matter where you are in your marriage journey—from single wanting to be married someday, to being married for [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-15T20:38:46+00:00May 9th, 2019|Categories: Conflict, Health, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead May 2, 2019

Friends, it’s May. Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were talking about beginning 2019 strong, and here we are now, almost half way through. I hope wherever you are, your year is going better than expected. And if it’s not, you are finding strength for the journey. Today, is a big day. For the first time in the life of this blog, we are doing a series entirely on Marriage. Beginning with this post, we are going talk about wedded bliss for the next four weeks. But, before I begin I have to admit something: I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-01T13:40:10+00:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Health, Hope, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Thankful, On The Fourth of July

Five Great Ways To Connect With Friends

Team Schlies Travel Guide (Repost)

Rewiring Our Body Image: #MyBodyHas

My Favorite Summer Reads for 2019

Five Ways to Better Communicate With Your Spouse

Five Date Ideas to Keep the Romance Alive

Does Your Marriage Need a Chore Chart?

Three Things To Remember in a Fight

Love Learn Lead May 2, 2019

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