Sleep Well The amount and quality of sleep you receive is fundamental to filling your well. Your mind and body receive tremendous value when you make sleep a priority and get the amount of deep, restful zzz's you need. Our Small Things for the month of May, is to...

  Move Well ~ We all know the importance of moving our body, yet how many of you make the conscious effort to do so? Our Small Things for the month of April, is to Move Well. Let's increase the amount of physical activity we get each day. The majority of us don't...

  Unplug Today ~ It's January and I know many of you have made commitments to improve yourself this year; maybe you're choosing to eat healthier or to embrace exercise. What about a digital detox? If I asked you to commit to spend one hour each day unplugged from all...

  Whether we are conscious of it or not, the expectation we have for girls to be good. We are a culture that is guilty of teaching, or perhaps a better word would be training, our girls to be ‘good little girls’. Of course, we want our children (girls or boys) to...

  We are a culture that lives with an insatiable need to have more. Never satisfied with what we have, we live in a never-ending cycle where once we get something, we begin the chase all over again trying to get the next best thing. We spend so much of our energy...

  What I know is that if I am over-tired and run-down, without time for myself to fill my well, I easily feel overwhelmed and I end up a hot mess! A hot mess who merely survives moment-to-moment, relying on adrenaline and unhealthy food choices to keep going. I end up...

  A cluttered mind can feel like a messy, confusing place; where it’s hard to think clearly or make a decision. Your thoughts can end up floating around everywhere; like clothes strewn about in a closet ~ they're in there, however they haven’t been tended to yet....

  Like so many of you, I grew up believing that putting myself first to take care of my own needs was self-fish and greedy. I naively believed that self-care was not only unnecessary, but that it was also, a waste of time. It took me a long time to understand...

  There's power in the words we choose to use. I know this and yet I sometimes forget this. In our home we have released the word, perfect from our vocabulary. This came about when we realized that our son, who was 4 at the time, was trying to attain perfection. Of...

  My husband and I spend a lot of time outdoors, particularly in our backyard. It seems like we're always out there playing with our children, gardening and doing yardwork. (Which is actually more like ‘yardplay’ for us since we don’t think of it as ‘work’). We also...