When Keeping Going Becomes What Holds You Back

by | Oct 21, 2026 | Caregiving

Caregiving teaches us how to keep moving through the hardest moments. Finding ourselves again may require learning when it’s OK to stop. When Someone Depends on You, You Keep Going I think part of what keeps a caregiver going is the simple fact that you have to keep...

The Signs We Ignore: Finding Your Way Back to Flow

by | Oct 14, 2026 | Awareness

How Old Stories About Not Being Enough Can Keep Us From Embracing the Future We Want What signs do you see in your life? Are they leading you toward a brighter future? Do you embrace them, or do you find reasons to ignore them? I’ve done both. And I’m learning that...

You Don’t Have to Be a Caregiver in a Desert

by | Oct 7, 2026 | Awareness, Caregiving

Finding Connection When You Feel Alone As a caregiver, I sometimes felt like I was living in a desert. Alone. As if no one really understood what I was living. At the time, I lived in rural western Kansas, so it was easy to feel that way. There weren’t many people...

Kind Sight: A Different Way to Look Back

by | Sep 30, 2026 | Awareness

What if you could look at your past self with the same compassion you offer someone you love? Along the lines of perfectionism, I’ve been thinking about the idea of kind sight. I heard someone use that term on a podcast several weeks ago, and it stayed with me. Her...

When Good Enough Lets the Light In

by | Sep 24, 2026 | Awareness, Caregiving

What happens when we stop waiting for everything to be perfect? I had a decision to make. It was late Tuesday night, and I still hadn’t finished writing this blog post. Monday had been a long day—an appointment in Kansas City, lunch with my mom, taking John to get...

When Life Changes in an Instant

by | Sep 16, 2026 | Awareness

Learning to navigate the unexpected—and finding connection through the transitions we never planned. We Think We Know What Comes Next Things can change in an instant. I know this has happened to me more than once. Sometimes, life changes with a phone call, a...

Does Time Control You?

by | Sep 9, 2026 | Awareness

We can’t control time, yet we can choose what we make room for. Time Has a Way of Taking Over Time. Sometimes it seems to consume our lives. For some people, time is neatly divided into eight-hour workdays, five-day workweeks, weekends, holidays, and vacations. You...

What If You Didn’t Need a Crystal Ball?

by | Sep 2, 2026 | Awareness

Sometimes the future becomes clearer when we stop trying to predict it and start getting curious about the next step. An Opportunity or an Obligation? Sometimes opportunities can feel like obligations. Maybe the invitation is to look at them differently. Instead of...

Flexibility, Boundaries, and the Space Between

by | Aug 19, 2026 | Awareness

Finding the space between caring for others and caring for yourself. I drove to the Kansas City area four days out of five last week. And on the fifth day, I went twice. Monday was The Moth. Wednesday was lunch with Mom and a job interview for my son. Thursday was a...