Five Ways I Manage Anxiety

In celebration of her fortieth birthday, last month author Sarah Bessey shared forty important things she’s learned in her life. One thing she said that struck me was this: “Being a responsible adult is the most underrated form of self-care.” Then she went on to explain by listing all the “boring” tasks of adulting like going to bed at a decent time, exercising, keeping a budget, etc.  Sometimes, the greatest thing we can do for ourselves is to live a more disciplined and routine life. To commit to practices that don’t necessarily bring us the most joy, but in the big [...]

By |2019-04-11T13:27:54+00:00April 11th, 2019|Categories: Anxiety, Courage, Fear, Food, Habit Making, Health, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Five Ways I Manage Anxiety

What Holds Us Back: Anxiety

For me, it feels like someone has reached in and grabbed my heart. I can’t breath very well, and panic fills my insides. From what I’ve heard, for others, their palms get sweaty, their mind races, they even start shaking. All their worries spill over from their emotions into their physical body. There’s little control and it takes a lot to calm down. Anxiety For many of us it is a constant hum in our day to day lives. It’s stress on caffeine. Though some of us have found a way to bring it down to a decaf level—it’s still [...]

By |2019-04-03T19:37:48+00:00April 8th, 2019|Categories: Anxiety, Courage, Fear, Hope, Mental Health, Uncategorized|Comments Off on What Holds Us Back: Anxiety

Love Learn Lead April 4, 2019

If January is the time for new resolutions, April is the month to pick them up again, and take action. Spring is here. The weather is better. The darkness of winter is over. And though there may be April showers, there is no time like the present to work toward those goals that won’t leave you alone. You know, those goals that slip into your thoughts when you’re driving in your car. The ones that give you a tinge of shame when something in a conversation reminds you of how far you have to go to accomplish them. Or the [...]

By |2019-03-25T20:16:17+00:00April 4th, 2019|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, Hope, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead April 4, 2019

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 |2019-03-25T20:03:05+00:00April 1st, 2019|Categories: Change, Courage, Freedom, perseverance, Uncategorized|Comments Off on What is Holding You Back?

Riding The Fung Wah With Friends

I can’t tell you what woke me up that day. It wasn’t the noise on the bus, because a lot of the other passengers had fallen asleep along with me and my friends. And I can’t say I felt the bus jerk as it moved between lanes as if it was the size of a sports car, and not a large bus for transport.   All I know is at some point on our way to New York City, I woke up to find our bus moving at warp speed down the highway. The world outside was a blur as [...]

By |2019-03-11T17:48:52+00:00March 25th, 2019|Categories: Courage, Friendship, Uncategorized, Waiting|Comments Off on Riding The Fung Wah With Friends

Leadership #22: Your Attitude Matters

The hardest times to lead aren’t only when everything is going south and you’re just trying to keep things together. They can also be in the mundane. When the job before you and your team is to do the long slow work of building or preparing for your next big thing. When there are menial or seemingly unimportant tasks to be done. Tasks that no one is ever going to notice. Jobs that won’t get applause. Yet things that must be completed to get to where you want to go. It is in these times that, Attitude is everything. Working [...]

Slow Goodbyes

Some goodbyes are fast. They blindside you and in their wake leave a painful, gaping hole in your life. But this goodbye was different. This goodbye was slow. When I moved in with my grandparents, a few months after graduation, I didn’t know my grandfather—Grampa, as I always called him—wasn’t quite himself. Looking back, there were signs that should have tipped me off. All the same, when you’re twenty-two and feel like you yourself are grasping at straws trying to figure out life, you miss things. I missed things. Until, Grampa became a part of my everyday.  After I moved [...]

By |2019-03-06T20:50:29+00:00March 18th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, grief, Uncategorized|1 Comment

Learn: That Weird Place In The Middle

It may surprise you to learn, I was unhappy to find myself working at a university bookstore after graduating college. As you might know, I love books. I was an English major. And, one of my favorite things to do is to wander the aisles of a bookstore with a cup of coffee in my hand. For me it’s pretty close to heaven. So why wasn’t I happy? Well, for one, shelving text books isn’t the same as reading a fantastic novel. Retail is hard work. But more than anything, my unhappiness wasn’t about where I was, it was about [...]

By |2019-03-06T20:57:55+00:00March 14th, 2019|Categories: Calling, Character, Faith, gratitude, Hope, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Uncategorized, Waiting|Comments Off on Learn: That Weird Place In The Middle

Failure On The Ski Slope

I had done this before. So why was I struggling so much to even get on the lift?  It was New Year’s Day. My friend from high school and her boyfriend had picked me up from my grandparents house in Boston, where I was living at the time. Then we drove up to New Hampshire to go skiing for the afternoon.  The previous spring I had graduated from college, and now I was working in a university bookstore in the city. My friends were scattered around the country, and my life was not going to plan. So having my friend [...]

By |2019-03-01T19:23:21+00:00March 11th, 2019|Categories: Anxiety, Courage, Failure, Success, Uncategorized|6 Comments

Being a Woman in 2019

Do you remember when Facebook was fun? When we didn’t have to scroll through posts that make us angry, afraid for our world, or cause us to question our friendship with people because of a political stance? Those were the days. Over the past couple of months, a few friends and acquaintances have been posting on Facebook things about ending abortion in the US. I was raised to be Pro-Life. But honestly, every time I see these posts, I get sick to my stomach.  As our country has been discussing the possibility of overturning Roe Vs. Wade, it seems people [...]

By |2019-03-01T17:04:43+00:00March 7th, 2019|Categories: Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|1 Comment

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