• Alone: Five Minute Friday

    My daughter is finally asleep; my husband is out doing the usual Friday night grocery shopping (yes, I do have a spectacularly amazing hubby!). I have some sweet time alone. I am becoming more and more aware of how deeply I need these times to recharge and restore my soul. I am an introvert through and through.  The biggest wrestle that I have been having with myself of late is how I spend that alone time. I have other moments of it in my day (the joy of having only one child who is fantastic at independent play) but too often these moments are wasted. I remember too late the…

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  • Alone: Five Minute Friday

    My daughter is finally asleep; my husband is out doing the usual Friday night grocery shopping (yes, I do have a spectacularly amazing hubby!). I have some sweet time alone. I am becoming more and more aware of how deeply I need these times to recharge and restore my soul. I am an introvert through and through.  The biggest wrestle that I have been having with myself of late is how I spend that alone time. I have other moments of it in my day (the joy of having only one child who is fantastic at independent play) but too often these moments are wasted. I remember too late the…

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  • Find: A Five Minute Friday post

    As I start to get into gear, preparing for Write 31 Days, I wonder where I’ll find the time, the motivation, the inspiration. Where do I find the energy, the mental focus to do any of the things I want to do? Where do I find the solution for sleep issues, for my own frustrating behaviours that eat up my day? The more I look, the more I realise that I’m often looking for the wrong things. To find what I need, I need to recognise what I need more. What actually energises me? What inspires me? What stops me finding those things? Am I finding more of my true…

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  • Find: A Five Minute Friday post

    As I start to get into gear, preparing for Write 31 Days, I wonder where I’ll find the time, the motivation, the inspiration. Where do I find the energy, the mental focus to do any of the things I want to do? Where do I find the solution for sleep issues, for my own frustrating behaviours that eat up my day? The more I look, the more I realise that I’m often looking for the wrong things. To find what I need, I need to recognise what I need more. What actually energises me? What inspires me? What stops me finding those things? Am I finding more of my true…

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  • Learn: Five Minute Friday

    I had a yearning this morning to get some space in my head and get the thoughts and plans on to paper. So I took my daughter for a walk to the park on a glorious morning and sat with my new blog planning kit to explore a topic for the Write 31 Days challenge coming up in October. The one year anniversary of starting this blog is fast approaching (Write 31 Days last year!!). I reflected on what I have learned about myself in that time. I don’t write regularly like I want to. I can’t always find the words to express what is in my head. But I…

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  • Learn: Five Minute Friday

    I had a yearning this morning to get some space in my head and get the thoughts and plans on to paper. So I took my daughter for a walk to the park on a glorious morning and sat with my new blog planning kit to explore a topic for the Write 31 Days challenge coming up in October. The one year anniversary of starting this blog is fast approaching (Write 31 Days last year!!). I reflected on what I have learned about myself in that time. I don’t write regularly like I want to. I can’t always find the words to express what is in my head. But I…

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  • What I Learned in July

    How can so much life have happened in only one month? I may not be able to express all that is in my heart from this month just yet but these are a few of the things I have learned or re-learned this month. Turning 30 is awesome! I joke that I’ve felt so much older for so long that the numbers are just starting to catch up. Not far from the truth some days! Seriously though, I feel so much more grounded and settled in myself in general, both through maturity with age and through hard healing work with God. It feels like the start of a new decade full of…

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  • What I Learned in July

    How can so much life have happened in only one month? I may not be able to express all that is in my heart from this month just yet but these are a few of the things I have learned or re-learned this month. Turning 30 is awesome! I joke that I’ve felt so much older for so long that the numbers are just starting to catch up. Not far from the truth some days! Seriously though, I feel so much more grounded and settled in myself in general, both through maturity with age and through hard healing work with God. It feels like the start of a new decade full of…

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