I have long decided to invite more discipline into my life. Correction: I have long decided to invite more discipline into my working life. Being a mother, that means those five to six hours in the morning and early afternoon while Svarun is in kindergarten. Being a mompreneur (a mother who is an entrepreneur), that …
Oznaka: mind
Taking Responsibility
The past week has been a roller-coaster. Do you know the feeling when you know you're doing the right thing, but everything you keep bumping into are obstacles upon obstacles upon obstacles? I sure do. I sure know how to feel sorry for myself. My mantra used to be: »I knew something was gonna go …
The Need for Rituals
I’m not a creature of habit, and I have never really made friends with routine. If anything, I found it scary because I usually felt so comfortable with change. But one thing is change, and the other is chaos and I was definitely leaning more in the direction of the second. My best friend once …
Light and Dark
Life is a balance of light and dark. Everyone gets to choose how much of each he’s willing to put up with ... until he or she realizes that what we call dark is really just a cry for more light. I have always been into experimenting with the darkness. I was drawn to people …
Relax
I have a “spiritual running buddy” as Gabrielle Bernstein likes to put it. It's a friend of mine, with whom we've been through a lot together. Our sisterhood started in high school, but not for the purpose of our supporting each other to be good to ourselves, so much as the exact opposite. We both had …
Happy Feast Day, Everyone!
Today is the 2nd time we get to celebrate St. Mary Magdalene’s Day since Pope Francis raised her memorial last year. Once considered a prostitute by the Church, she was now proclaimed a saint. There is nothing more terrifying to men in position than an awakened woman, says Dale Allen Hoffman, who has been studying …
Invitation: Let’s Do This Together
I'm not perfect. I'm not. Quite honestly, I'm highly imperfect. You can ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you how my insecurity gets in the way of my strength and will oftentimes. Or how my fears dare me to trust. Or how the hole from a belly button in my navel literally exploded …
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