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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “beauty”

Motherhood Is Meaningful

Jordan Canafax February 1, 2019 honestly

Sometimes I get discouraged. Being a mother with no other current employment seems like not enough; less than. I am surrounded by other mothers who appear to be accomplishing abundantly more. It’s in my face to gather time to take …

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Waterlogged Soul Care

Asha Grinnell July 16, 2018 soul care

Do you remember being little and playing too long in the bathtub to the point where your skin would start to wrinkle? My mama would always remind me that once the skin got ‘pruney’ it was time to get outta …

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It’s Too Dangerous to Love Myself

Brittany Bergman September 15, 2017 self

My story is not unlike those of countless other postpartum moms: pregnancy changed my body in ways I didn’t expect, and even once I lost most of the “baby weight,” I struggled to accept that my body had rearranged itself. …

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The Path of Most Beauty

Brittany Bergman June 7, 2017 essentials

For many years, I believed God’s calling on my life had to be something I didn’t want to do. I’d heard story after story of people who believed they had been called not just outside their comfort zones but outside …

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Drawing Hearts

Audi Swift April 17, 2017 essentials

I sat in a dark room and rocked our 6-month-old back to sleep for what seemed like the 1,000th time. “Dang it,” I muttered under my breath. London was going through a sleep regression. I felt a familiar tidal wave …

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Beauty in Simplicity

Laura Duggleby February 20, 2017 home

Another Monday arrives, I feel the weight of yet another week coming: how will I keep the children entertained this week, will my activities measure up and am I doing enough as a mom? Will I be seen in the …

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Magic in the Mundane

Melinda Edlin February 6, 2017 self

Years ago, I had a dreamlike idea of what motherhood would look like. It looked like the time I babysat a 3-year-old boy at the park and we threw sticks over the side of a bridge, laughing hysterically. It looked …

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The Restorative, Healing Powers of Awe

Kelley Gray M.A. LPC January 22, 2017 essentials

Awe research. It’s a real thing and it’s happening at the University of California, Berkeley. A team of psychologists have found that people who experience awe manifest some very interesting behaviors. I would have guessed that awe boosted mood temporarily …

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When a Milestone Birthday Is Hard

Alexandra Kuykendall September 15, 2016 self

Some friends a few years my junior recently hit milestone birthdays. You know the ones. They end in a zero. And with each friend’s approaching day, I sat through the same group discussion. It went something like this: as the …

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Brazen: Pick Pomegranates

Leeana Tankersley August 26, 2016 honestly

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65 . . . and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life? —Anne Lamott When I was a kid my …

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