Going through hard stuff in your life. It's like falling into a lake. Once you do it you can't go back. You can get dried off but you will always have that experience of falling in. You will associate lakes with fearful thoughts. When you walk up to the edge of the lake you will think about the last time or that one time when you fell in. You can't take back experiences and experiences can shape your future. They can make or break it, they can literally create it. And you get

Let's talk about cutting out the 'being perfect', along with the carbs and our new years resolutions this year. Right there with the resolutions can set you up for the strive to be perfect, in turn setting yourself up for failure. We want to set ourselves up for success! So instead of making a resolution that we beat ourselves up if we can't keep, let's create instead. Create something new, create space, create new ways of being. The strive for perfect will kill you. Ok, so n

We've heard this term before, right? Stop "shoulding" all over yourself. Have you ever been trying to enjoy something and you can't because you feel like you should be doing something else instead. Spending time with your family but thinking you really should be working. Relaxing or doing something fun but you feel as though you should be productive. Sitting down on the couch during naptime and watching Below Deck Med and Eating Stacy's Pita chips when really you 'should' be