I hate disciplining but I can’t have her becoming a candy goblin — My partner called out to me, “You need to come see this.” He had just returned from a walk and I had been in the other room while our 3-year-old was playing on her iPad (or so I thought). My stomach immediately dropped. “What is it??” I walked towards the…

You’re always in the driver’s seat — When I first got into the personal growth world, I was transfixed. I immediately got hooked onto any kind of method to help improve myself. Meditation ✅ Journaling ✅ Coaching ✅ Workshops ✅ Personality Tests ✅ Podcasts ✅ Self-Help Books ✅ The list goes on and on. All of these…

A fun way to get your creative juices going — I rarely write poetry. Probably because my brain usually doesn’t think that way. But when I’m stuck on writing in my traditional form of essays, poetry is a fun way to break out of the norm. Today’s prompt at MIDFORM challenged us to write a Haiku. …

Everyone was crying around me — I vividly remember being about 6 years old at the movie theatre. It’s the only time in my entire life that I can recall people weeping during a movie. Not just silent tears streaming, but deep body-wracking sobs of sadness. As a young girl, I was overcome myself. But not…

I hate that I kinda like it too… — “Let it goooooooo, let it goooooo. Can’t hold it back anymoreeeee.” — Lyrics from Frozen ‘Let It Go’ song My 3 year old is mega-obsessed with Frozen. It’s all we listen to. All day long. And it’s driving me nuts. I never thought I’d be that parent. When our little…

I can’t pinpoint one version of me and that’s okay — I’ve always been a social chameleon. I didn’t even realize that’s what I was doing until my mid-twenties. If people were generally going ‘this way’ then I would tend to follow along. It made it extremely difficult to get to know what I actually wanted or who I was at…

When your mind refuses to stop — It’s discouraging to be unable to shake off those stressful situations. It happens to me all the time. I’ll get stressed out for various reasons and my mind will run a million miles a minute. I go round and round on this perpetual hamster wheel of stress. It doesn’t matter…

The highs and lows of starting something new — Many of us talk about the highs, but the lows of embarking on a new journey are often pushed aside. A new opportunity has come across my path and I wake up every morning with a new emotion. Yesterday I was beyond excited, today I’m uncertain and hesitant. It changes…

What are those deeper desires that you have for life? — It’s time to daydream again folks. If you could do anything, what would you most want? When I was a little girl, my daydreams consisted of the fancy wedding and the handsome prince — I was enamoured with those Disney princess movies. When I was a teen, I wanted to…