Posts tagged with: perspective

How to Cultivate Inner Beauty in Seasons of Monotony

When we look back at our lives, it’s often astonishing to see how much things change over time. Even when our schedules and situations seem the same from week to...

How Imperfect People Can Do Great Things

Whether we wish we could serve the poor and alleviate suffering like Mother Teresa or pioneer critical scientific research like Marie Curie, we all dream of doing beautiful, world-changing things...

On Telling Our Inner Critic To Quit It

As much as we all want to be confident, self-assured women, there’s a nagging little voice inside our head that tries to tell us we can’t be — that we’re inadequate, we’re...

Cultivating Your Inner Creative

Within each of us lies an inherent craving to create, to put something beautiful in the world that was not there before. We have in the depths of our core...

Unleashing From Expectations

Growing up, I had clear expectations for the kind of life I would lead as I matured, including what I would know, how I would behave, the kind of job...

The Confidant Embodied: Anny Donewald

This past winter, I had the pleasure of speaking with author and activist Anny Donewald about her incredible faith journey and how she uses her past in the sex industry...

Finding Happiness in Others’ Success

No matter how much we might strive for perfection in each area of our lives – in our relationships, in our careers, in our health, or even in our faith –...

Being OK With Being Last

When it seems like all of our friends are getting married, having kids, purchasing houses or settling into careers before us, how are we supposed to feel? Is it possible...

Embracing the Interim

As a child I imagined adulthood almost as if it were a destination, believing that once I got there I would have the dream job, the dream husband, and the...

The Loveliest Things

This week, I was featured on Stephanie May Wilson‘s blog in a series called “The Loveliest Things,” which is all about celebrating and sharing the loveliness in our lives with each other. I...
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