Tag: values based living
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🦋 Grounded in Living: Honoring Our Right to Be Here
For me, this morning began in stillness. A gentle snowfall here in Wisconsin, the world softened and quiet, as if everything collectively agreed to pause. There is something deeply grounding about these moments when life slows just enough for us to feel ourselves here. Present. Breathing. Existing without needing to do, prove, or perform anything…
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🦋When Kind Words Become Steady Ground
For me, this week held everything. Grief and joy. Tenderness and strength. Loss and new beginnings, all arriving at once. It began with the tragic passing of a young colleague, leaving a heaviness that settled into our days and our hearts. I felt it deeply, and I chose to pause, to grieve honestly, and to…
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🦋 The World Needs More of You
For me, this first full week of the year has made something unmistakably clear: the world does not need more sameness, it needs more you. It needs more of your truth, your voice, and your way of seeing, creating, loving, leading, and living. When we choose authenticity, we don’t just change our own lives, we…
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Be the Leading Role in Your Own Life 🎬✨
This week I found myself watching The Holiday, one of my favorite holiday movies. I find it cozy, comforting, familiar and every time I watch it, one line lands a little deeper than the time before: “You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life.” That line stayed with me. So many of…
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A Solstice Reflection (and a Few Favorite Things) ❄️✨
The Winter Solstice arrived quietly this week; the shortest day, the longest night. A gentle reminder from nature that rest is not only allowed, it’s necessary. 🌙 From here, the light begins its slow return. No rushing. No forcing. Just a steady, patient shift. Maybe that’s why I’ve been feeling a little lighter lately… a…
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Belonging: Where Alignment Begins 🤍
The word belonging has been resting gently on my heart lately. Not the surface-level kind; not fitting in, performing, or reshaping ourselves to be accepted but the deeper kind. The kind where you can exhale. Where your shoulders soften. Where your body knows it’s safe. That kind of belonging carries a quiet magic; subtle, steady,…
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🌿Peace as the Baseline: Coming Home to Yourself
This week, a line from one of my recent speeches kept echoing in my mind: “Peace stopped being a vacation… and became home.” It struck me how deeply that reflects the journey I’ve been on; and maybe the one you’re on too. For so long, peace felt like something I visited: A quiet moment here.…
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Returning to the First Breath: A Birthday Reflection on Becoming
Today, on my birthday, I’m choosing to pause. Not to celebrate in the traditional sense, but to reflect deeply, intentionally, breath by breath. Birth begins with an inhale. That first, instinctive breath marks our arrival into the world where we are naked, exposed, and without pretense. We do not yet know our name, our story,…
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Are You Doing Life… or Experiencing It? 🍂✨
This week, a simple conversation sparked a powerful reflection; one I haven’t been able to shake. Pause and think about the difference between doing things and experiencing things. The difference is everything when it comes to living intentionally. Many of us, myself included, at times, move through life checking boxes: We do things. We stay…
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