Tag: mindfulness
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What If I Let It Be Easy?
I am so absolutely blessed to have good, good girlfriends.The kind that love me, hold space for me, challenge me, laugh with me, and show up fully as themselves every single time. I’m talking about women who bring joy to a room the second they walk in. Women who aren’t afraid to cry when life…
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The Fear of Slowing Down Almost Kept Me in Survival Mode
I can remember waking my husband up—shaking him out of his sleep, saying, “Hey, get up. It’s time for you to get up. You need to get moving. Let’s go.” We were probably about three to five months into being married. Still newlyweds. Still figuring it all out. My husband? He’s always been a “let…
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Give Yourself the Last Word
Why honoring your “no” might be the most luxurious thing you ever do The phone rang.And before I even picked it up, I knew what was coming. It wasn’t cruel.It wasn’t loud.It wasn’t even unexpected. It was love—wrapped in cultural expectation.Care—dressed in pressure.Concern—masked as conversation. My mother, in her usual mothering way, opened with the…
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What Slower Feels Like in Real Life
A true love letter to your nervous system, your time, and the life you get to design Slower doesn’t always look like taking a nap.Sometimes slower is just… not rushing. It’s waking up without an alarm.Not because you don’t have things to do, but because your body is learning it doesn’t have to be startled…
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The Soft Rebellion of Doing Less (And Loving Every Second of It)
I spent months saying, “I’m shifting.”I could feel it in my bones, but I couldn’t name it.Every conversation with my girlfriends sounded the same:“Something’s changing, but I don’t know what.”We were swirling. In the middle of the fog. Searching. And then one day, I was scrolling on TikTok—just trying to pass the time—and there she…
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Be the One Who’s Willing to Fail (And Still Grows the Flowers)
Some mornings, I want to crawl into the softness of my covers and not come out.Not because I’m sad.Not because I’m defeated.But because trying again can be its own kind of exhaustion. Trying again means opening yourself back up.To effort. To hope.To not knowing how it’s going to go.To the possibility that it might not…
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The Life You Want Might Be Hidden in the Thing You Keep Postponing
A true story about tired mornings, hidden wealth, and why delay is often disguised as protection Let me tell you the truth:I don’t want to get up early.I don’t want to interrupt my rhythm.And I definitely don’t want to start my day with insurance study quizzes. But I’m doing it anyway. Because after months—and honestly…
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The Gumbo of Happiness: A Wealthy Woman’s Recipe for Feeling Alive
In 2023, I decided puzzles were going to be the thing.The thing that would bring my husband and I together for quiet moments.The thing we could do side-by-side on Sundays.The thing that felt slow, intentional, connected. I had a whole plan. Bought the first three puzzles in January.A puzzle for each month.A little glass of…
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You Won’t Know If You Love It Until You Try It (Luxury in Curiosity)
I still remember the day she told me she was walking away from her business. She was a client. A friend. A woman I admired deeply. I had coached her through some of her biggest pivots, watched her grow a studio from scratch, and helped guide her through decisions that brought her success and freedom.…
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The Life That’s Growing Me (Turns Out, This Is What I Asked For)
I didn’t know starting a blog would become the soft opening to a new life. When I first sat down to write, it was simply to put language to the way I wanted to live. Slower. Wealthier. Happier.A whisper of a vision. A craving. A quiet shift. But what I didn’t know then—what I couldn’t…
Slower, Wealthier, Happier 