Words for the journey
Journal
These are the things I have lived and the things I keep learning: on resilience, joy, gratitude, and finding your footing when life gets hard. Written in my own words, from my own road.
19 essays
Resilience Is Not Bouncing Back
Resilience is not bouncing back. It's choosing to move forward, and it's built before you need it through perspective, acceptance, community, endurance, and rest.
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50 lessons in 50 years of Living!
Yesterday, I turned the big ole 5-0! The road to 50 with it’s ups and downs, good times AND near death experiences has taught me so much. Some people might dread turning 50 and fee...
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15 Quotes for Strength Amid Adversity
The pandemic has tipped our world off its axis, spilling each of our lives into uncharted waters. When adversity cloaks our everyday in an uncertainty that is increasingly difficul...
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How to Build Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic
While panic is in surplus, many other resources are becoming increasingly difficult to secure. Grocery shelves are quickly emptied, trips to stores are far scarcer, budgets are cin...
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Three Lessons Learned From Wildfires
A single spark. A single breath of wind. That’s all it takes for everything to change. While the SoCal skies have been filled with smoke and ash, NorCal is repeatedly shut into dar...
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The Link Between Creativity & Trauma
Both fragmented and fused with the hands of experience, the creative mind isn’t so different from a stained-glass window. A mosaic of memory and morrow. Splinters of what was and w...
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Behind the Cover
Have you ever walked into a gallery that steals the breath from your lips and renders you silent in reverence? It’s partly due to the beauty of the individual works, but more impac...
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How to March Through Every Obstacle This Month
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When stress is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. … If your...
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The Gift That Costs Nothing and Benefits All
It all started at a simple coffee meeting with a friend. We entered the cafe, greeted by the clinking of the doorbell and a barista with an expression shadowed by both his visor an...
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How Thanksgiving Will Change Your Life
The evidence is in your spirit. In your brain. In your very DNA. Gratitude will change your life. And what better time to talk about it than this festive month? Thanksgiving is a h...
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Your Fall Diet Plan: Cinnamon, Cider & Self-Love
As integral as cinnamon, cider & spice are to fall, there’s another ingredient that you must add to your diet this autumn… Self-love. That’s right, time to feed the soul. Your diet...
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Endless Possibilities Initiative: Where Hope + Knowledge = Successful YOU
“There is realistic hope for everyone living with pain that things will change, that life can get bigger and better. There is a way forward for each of us to meaningful living and...
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Share Your Story, Heal Your Scars
My accident tore into my life like some merciless thief. He started with my body, trying to break me and take my leg. But more than that, he was there to rob me of my hope, to pulv...
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A Mom’s Survival Guide When Faced With Adversity
She’d always been a mama’s girl, and now you could see she was afraid to climb in my bed with me. I thought she was going to cry, and my first instinct was to try and distract her,...
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How to Stay Positive in the Face of Adversity
I sat in the cold, dim room in my hospital bed looking down at the leg that the doctors had just told me they were going to have to amputate. My spirit was nearly broken and I coul...
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Texas Is a Whole Other Country
If you haven’t been to Texas, I suggest a visit so you can understand exactly why most Texans take such pride in their state AND why you may feel like you are in a “whole other cou...
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5 THINGS TO DO EVERY WEEKEND TO GET MOTIVATED
A Sunday well spent brings a week of content (and motivation). 1.) Decide what is important. Decide what is important and make sure you are at the top of the list. If it is more re...
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DIFFICULT ROADS OFTEN LEAD TO BEAUTIFUL DESTINATIONS
After the ten-hour surgery Dr. Wiss performed to take out the broken pieces of titanium and replace them with the rod, I, of course, called the pathology department to ask if I cou...
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STRONG PEOPLE RARELY HAVE AN EASY PAST
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. Strong people rarely have an easy past and the most massive characters are seated with scars. You will be burned, that’s just lif...
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Change is possible, hope is available, and the choice is yours
If the words here meet you where you are, there is more waiting in the books and on the podcast. And if you want your people to feel it in a room together, let's talk.