Thoughtful ideas for life after the busy years, including identity, purpose, reinvention, and creating what comes next.
College Life College Care Package Essentials: What to Send From Home Practical, comforting, and fun things to send when your college student could use a little piece of home. By Justina • College Life • Care Packages There is something about sending a college care package that feels good for everyone…
Preparing for the Dorm: What I Actually Did (and What I’d Do Again) There’s a moment when it shifts. Not just at the graduation ceremony, with the pictures and announcements, but in the quiet realization that your home is about to change again. My daughter has already graduated, and now my son is stepping into…
If you’re here, there’s a good chance that thought has been sitting quietly in the background of your life — especially when it comes to money, career, health, or retirement. Maybe it shows up late at night, or in quiet moments when the house feels different than it once did. Maybe you look back and…
It’s key to take charge of our decisions for personal growth. Constantly justifying our choices weakens our personal power. This makes it hard to stick to our values and goals. By not needing to justify, we find our inner strength and confidence. This leads to better decision-making and a stronger sense of self.
It’s strange how these things can creep up on you. One minute you’re going about your day as usual, and the next, your body is sending signals you don’t quite recognize. Hot flashes. Weight gain. Emotional swings that seem to come out of nowhere. I remember my first hot flash vividly, though at the time…
I have spent my life overcoming my past experiences with years of counseling to identify and stop the destructive behaviors and patterns that I experienced so my children don’t carry on that legacy. Learning about what alcoholism does to the family and how co-dependency is just as destructive. I have made peace with my past and forgiven myself for my mistakes leading up to that. I will be the first to tell you that it took work, and every now and then, I’ll have this moment of clarity or a feeling of validation for what I went through.
Mediocrity is the enemy of greatness. It’s the voice in your head that tells you to play it safe, to blend in, not to rock the boat.
What I Would Tell My Younger Self Looking back at one childhood photograph and thinking about courage, grief, growing up, and the things I understand now that I could not possibly have known then. When I look at that old photograph of me standing near the sandbox at Lake Washington, I see a little girl…