Choosing Courage Over Comfort: What George Floyd’s Death Taught Me About Myself
Why is choosing courage vital to a life of impact and how do we choose courage over comfort, when we have the option of taking the easy way out?
Building A Life You Love
I Didn’t Sign Up For This Since becoming a military spouse, I have moved approximately every two years. The other night hubs and I were talking about just how much of our life is devoted to moving – prepping for a move, actually moving, or getting settled in a new place. In the last ten […]
Failure Isn’t Fatal
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden Hindsight is 2020 (Especially in 2020) Back in February I had a chance to reflect on and set growth goals for the coming year. (Because who does that in January??). I examined each major category of my life (physical, mental, spiritual, relational, home […]
Start With Rest
Because we are so burnt out, we’ve lost our ability to connect. And connection is the path to building a more flourishing world together. Anne Helen Petersen In our last post, I talked about specific tactics that can help us move from a place of overwhelm to a place of pursuing a life of purpose. Today, […]
Five Tips to Overcome Feeling Overwhelmed
Tired of feeling overwhelmed? Last week I wrote about beginning a journey towards a life of less, but better. It sounds wonderful in theory, right? And yet. You’re probably thinking, “Christine, that sounds great, but…” I’m now trying to work from home AND homeschool my kids My spouse is deployed and I’m burning the candle […]
The Military Spouse Guide to Doing Less (But Better)
Hi, I’m Christine. Military spouse. Work from home mama. And chronic over-committer. It happens every time we move to a new duty location. I miss the community we had at our last base. I am impatient to make new friends and find my new community. And my over-committer-ness comes out in full force. I immediately […]
“A Marathon, Not a Sprint”
Five questions to help us reorient our perspective, change our mindset and thrive in seasons of chaos and change. Are you doing better or worse than you were doing a month ago? Here in Illinois we are well into week seven of our time of quarantine, with no real changes at least through the end […]
Did I Do Enough?
That’s the question that I woke up asking myself. Did I do enough to get myself mentally healthy? Did I connect with hubs enough? Did I do enough self-care to be a better, more present mom? Perhaps it was indicative of just how stress-filled my life has become. Hubs and I recently snuck away to celebrate our […]
Reckoning & Rumbling With “Why Can’t I….”
It was supposed to be simple. But somehow I made it way more complicated. One of my big goals that I identified for 2020 was focusing on my health – physical, mental and spiritual. I identified that my biggest pain point was a lack of time, but more specifically a lack of margin in my […]
Your 2020 Goals: Have You Already Given Up?
Call it providence, fate, the hand of God, whatever you want. In July I put a hold on the book Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear. I waited six months for a copy to come available. My library has an app to where […]