overcoming your struggles and finding yourself
Let me tell you about the year I lost my mind over cookies. My kids were in elementary school, and I was voluntold to bring cookies for the class party. Simple enough, right? Except I couldn’t just make a few dozen of my usual holiday cookies. No, I decided to make around 100 fancy sugar…
Learn simple ways to stay grounded and calm when life feels unpredictable. Gentle tools for finding steadiness during change and transition.
What rebuilding looks like when life has already asked a lot of you. Rebuilding financial confidence after a setback isn’t about perfection — it’s about steady, human-sized steps. Financial setbacks have a way of getting under our skin. They shake our sense of security, stir up old stories we thought we’d outgrown, and make us…
You know that tight feeling in your chest when you open your bank account after a major life change? That pit in your stomach when you think about next month’s bills while everything else in your life feels uncertain? That’s money fear during transitions—and it’s not just about the numbers. If you’ve recently gone through…
You know that feeling when you catch yourself once again, mid-sentence saying “I can’t trust my own judgment anymore”? Maybe you missed the warning signs in a relationship, made a career choice that backfired spectacularly, or promised yourself you’d change something important and then… didn’t. Again. Yeah. Me too. Rebuilding trust in yourself after you’ve…
Waiting to feel ready before you start? Here’s the truth: confidence doesn’t show up before the moment. It catches up to you later. Learn how to borrow confidence, take small brave actions, and start moving forward even when your hands are shaking.
Journaling isn’t just about keeping a diary — it’s one of the most powerful tools you can use to turn dreams into doable steps. When you start journaling for goal setting, you’re not only writing down what you want to achieve, you’re also building the kind of confidence that lasts. The confidence that says, “I’ve…
Get answers to the most common questions about starting over after 50. From dealing with anxiety to knowing if you’re ready for change, real advice from someone who made the leap to graduate school at fifty and built a new career
As February, the month of love, winds down, I’ve been sitting with a question that keeps tugging at my heart: how many times have I apologized for simply being me? For taking up space, having needs, or just being a person with all my messy feelings and flaws? Where is my self love? It reminds…
You know those moments when you close your journal, feeling like you’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s trying to be heard? That’s how I felt when I first started exploring my relationship with anger. There was so much there – so many layers of “good girls don’t” and “just stay calm” to work through….
