I am a recovering people-pleaser. There. I admit it. Growing up as the oldest child in my family instilled a desire to please those around me, and I understand this to be a common attribute of first-born children. Even as …
In Pursuit of Quiet
I have four children, a husband and a puppy in the house. I don’t really understand the concept of alone time in this season of my life. So unless you count two o’clock in the morning, the thought of carving …
Addiction Is the Opposite of Rest
Are your particular restful endeavors truly restorative or possibly life-draining? When we repeat the same behaviors over and over, our brains strengthen the neural pathways associated with those activities. In time they become the easiest go-to, slickest routes of least-resistance …
Helping Young Children to Rest
Whether your child never sits still, like mine, or is naturally calm and quiet, it can be difficult to teach rest. Sometimes it seems that little ones only rest when they sleep. However, with some experimentation and creativity, there are …
Embracing Rest in the Everyday
I am a body in motion. Tonight, while cleaning up after dinner, I scolded my 2-year-old for pushing the kitchen chairs around. She lined them all up and said, “I’m taking away all the chairs. You can’t have any chairs, …
Restful Wear: Five Tips for Keeping Comfort Classy
Every woman knows the joy of slipping into her comfy clothes. You know, the ones that don’t constrict, pinch, dig in or ride up. We usually save them for the end of a hard day, when we’re ready to hunker …
The Best Breath
I watched as his little toes peeked over the concrete edge of the swimming lanes. His instructor was in the pool, arms outstretched—her rhinestone baseball cap blinging in the summer sun. “C’mon, Finn you can do it!” she encouraged. I’m …
Embrace Rest
What is it that makes your heart flutter? What activity swallows you up so intently with pure bliss, that you lose track of time? What if rest looked like doing the things that restored you the most? Spring is a …
The Garden
There is a part of the wall in my house that I rarely see. This is where the laundry climbs the walls, and in the same way that ivy overtakes a trellis, sometimes when I see this spot—my own worries …
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