Sunday
Sunday. It can literally spell success for the rest of your week. God designed us to work, but also to rest. Our bodies, souls, and minds are not designed for sustained periods of extreme stress. Even the week of Creation…
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Being Real In Our Relationships
We don’t know each other very well. It doesn’t matter if you and I were great friends long before the internet or you just landed here from a Google search. We don’t know each other as well as we feel…
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No Strings Attached Encouragement
I should have recognized my rebellious nature much earlier in life. I wasn’t the out-all-night teenager or the break-all-the-rules new driver, but almost nothing makes me want to do something more than these simple words: You can’t. Way back in…
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Discipline is Contagious
Way back on the first of January, I shared my one word for 2015: freedom. It may seem counter-intuitive for me to post about discipline just a few weeks later. As the type-A, ever-achieving, goal-setting gal that I am, I can…
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The Reality of Weight Loss Goals & The Month of February
We are just over a month into the New Year, something I can hardly believe. I set big goals in January and even got a jump start on healthy habits at the end of last year. However, the last couple…
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10 Goals for 2015
Two thousand and fourteen brought huge triumphs for me. I achieved the highest status to date in my business. SkipperClan retired after twenty years in the Air Force. Our youngest graduated high school. It also brought a few challenges. We…
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What Happened When I Tried Whole30 for 9 Days
Last week I shared a little about the search that led me to the Whole30 website. I truly never believed I could go nine days without bread and dairy. I mean, there is being healthy and there is being crazy. As I…
When Eating Healthy is Overwhelming
Some changes to your diet involve simple decisions, but difficult behavior changes. Others involve difficult decisions for simple behavior changes. The decisions to stop drinking diet soda and to increase my water intake were obviously good choices. Trying to eat more vegetables…
Getting Enough Sleep
Days after this post, Lisa-Jo’s Five Minute Friday prompt was rest …the very word I used as my prompt for these words. For those of you stopping by from the FMF linky, welcome! Did you know we are all working…
From Winter to Spring
I am not sure what it was about Thursday…all I know is that it feels like I finally turned a corner. In the last three months, we moved across the country and I added work outside the home for the first…
