November Musings: Notes from the Road to Self Improvement

A few weeks ago, a fellow blogger shared this insight on blogging: “One funny thing about having a blog is you write how you feel at a particular time and it’s etched ...

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“You are my child. I love you.”

Last week in my MOPS group, one of the other women commented on how there’s nothing like becoming a parent to evoke feelings of self doubt. I felt comforted to hear my ...

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What I Learned in June {2015}

School may be out for the summer, but the learning is still going strong over here in my little corner of the world. In no particular order, here are some of the ...

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Messy Imperfection

Life has been pretty messy lately. And by messy, I’m not referring to messes of the spit up/drooling/diaper explosion variety (although those, too, have been pretty plentiful of late!). I’m talking about ...

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What I Learned in May

Some months are filled with heavy life lessons. Other months are a bit more carefree, passing through without leaving too deep of an impression. For me, May has been a lighter month; ...

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Quotable // from Amy Adams

“Perfect isn’t normal, nor is it interesting.” ~ Amy Adams ...

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Quotable // from Myquillyn Smith

“Imperfections actually have a role to play in our lives. When we forget that, we become unapproachable.” ~ Myquillyn Smith ...

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Risky Resolutions: Saying Goodbye to Failproof Goals

As of today, we are officially two weeks into the year 2014.  Which means that it has been two weeks since countless individuals committed to New Year’s goals and resolutions that they ...

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Lessons for the (un)Perfect Life

Perfectionism, according to Wikipedia,  is “a personality trait characterized by a person’s striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards.”  Psychotherapist Ann Wilson Schaef offers a simpler definition: “Perfectionism is self-abuse ...

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