All posts by: Amy Cummins

25 Journal Prompts For Self-Reflection

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth Journaling can be an incredible means to catalog our thoughts and provide a better understanding of ourselves. When we...

Why We Should Look Forward to Getting Older

As women, one of our greatest collective fears seems to be the fear of growing older. I mean, be honest: When was the last time someone you know actually looked forward to...

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...

35 Things to Cross Off Your Winter Bucket List

As someone who grew up in Minnesota and now lives in southern California, I’ve experienced winter in all of its forms — from harsh blizzards to mild rains to full-on...

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...

How Do We Know Who We Ought To Be?

To err is human. We’ve all doubtless heard this phrase before, but in spite of its truth, who among us doesn’t still cling to a desire to achieve perfection, to...

Welcoming a Season of Change

There is a time and a place for all things, and nowhere is this clearer than in the changing of the seasons. The earth’s seasons are natural, designated times of...

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...

Practicing Small, Random Acts of Kindness

O, the power of kindness So gentle, loving, meek, It is indeed a language Even the dumb can speak; The deaf can understand it, It sheds a shining ray; Then...

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...