Pleasure and Purity: Releasing Shame From Your Sexuality
Pleasure refers to the experience of feeling good. Pleasure contrasts with pain and suffering and is related to value and desire. Why does pleasure matter? Pleasure is a birthright to enjoy the best of life…good food, great art, natural beauty, and great sex. Great Sex? Yes, great sex is a God-given birthright embedded into the […]
10 Year Anniversary Getaway
Last weekend Sam and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! It was such a beautiful milestone to celebrate while looking back on all we have been though together… the good and the bad. We’ve created so much together including but not limited to 3 humans, two houses, lots of deep personal work and learning what […]
An Ice Cream Garden Party to Empower women
Three things I really really L-O-V-E… -eating ice cream, flowers and empowering women! In partnership with “Tillamook ice cream”, I combined all three of these things last weekend and celebrated the beginning of summer with a few of my favorite mompreuners. We sampled a few of the mouth-watering ice cream flavors that Tillamook makes, chatted […]
5 Things I learned Last Month
Oh January…. my least favorite month of the whole year. I’ve found little reprieve from my nagging thoughts this month…. “You need to sleep train Ruby, you need to give Zeke more attention, you need to be more involved in Waylon’s education, your husband could stand a little more attention even though all you […]
How To Keep The Flame Alive in Your Marriage
I’m thinking we can speak for the married with children masses when we say keeping the FLAME alive in your relationship is HARD! And that’s not just what she said ha ha… I had to (insert laugh crying emoji face here). Sam and I have started to open up more about our relationship on The […]
Lessons From A Neurotic Therapist: 5 Ways To Endure A Panic Attack
My palms were sweaty, my heart was pounding, I felt like I was coming out of my body hovering over the whole embarrassing scene. I looked at the woman next to me with saucer eyes and said, “I’m so sorry you have to sit next to the crazy lady with a newborn.” I was holding […]
What Happens When We Follow Our Good Desires
I’ve been thinking a lot about desires and how when we follow our God-given desires we come alive more. Essentially we become more of who we are meant to be when we listen to the things that pull at our heart and attention. As a child I was ‘eh how do I say this…kinda […]
What Does Love Look Like In You?
This is kind of a strange question but I asked myself this today. I very good at loving my children and simi good at loving my husband (he tends the get the leftovers since we’re still in babydom) sorry Babe I’m working on this…but I’m not so good at loving myself. I go through ups […]
#togetherwemother: HOW MY MARRIAGE HAS CHANGED THROUGH PARENTHOOD
I could write a novel on how my marriage has changed through parenthood. For your sake I’ll keep it somewhat concise. I’ve only been “married with children” for five years, but in those years the relationship I have with my husband has changed significantly. On one level it went from “honey I made dinner topless in […]
Love, Risk, Relationships and Finding Your Joy
Whoa that’s a hefty title…not sure I can do it justice but it seems fitting for all that I want to convey. I do a lot of processing in the car these days. I listen to podcasts and process how bits of info apply to my life. Today while en route home I was listening […]
