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Motherhood growth journey: Celebrating another year with reflections and insights

Another Trip Around the Sun: Birthday Reflections

This week, I celebrated another trip around the sun. And like most birthdays in this season of life, it arrived with very little fanfare (I completely forgot about it until two days before). The day itself was simple. I celebrated…

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Mindful Motherhood: A Key to Peaceful Parenting

Motherhood is overwhelming.  We all know it. Yes, of course, there are those moments when we catch our little ones giggling over a secret together or when they read to us for the first time. Those incredible moments that make…

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Using Breathwork to Transform Your Parenting

Have you ever experienced a moment when you responded well to a challenging situation with your child? Maybe it was a tantrum or their whining, and instead of reacting negatively, you managed to stay calm. You responded with compassion and…

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Embracing Love as Action: Insights from My Oracle Reading

Love as action (not just an emotion). A Shift We ended our summer with quite a bit of change. I wrote a few weeks ago about ​using this change and crisis to shift​. Shortly after I wrote this, I spent…

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4 Ways to Build Presence without Meditation

When my oldest started kindy, I didn’t expected his art supplies to become a source of peace and mindfulness. These creative practices added a dimension to my mindfulness practice. If meditation doesn’t resonate with you or you’re looking for something different, give these a try.

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8 Steps to Building Better Habits

As I write this, I feel that familiar ache in my lower back. Maybe you know it. Years of carrying babies, then toddlers, and now little kids combined with not enough sleep, a few extra pounds, and not nearly enough…

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7 Actionable Ways to Be More Present in Motherhood

7 Things that you can do, even on the busiest days to be more present in motherhood. None of these take more than ten minutes. — During my kindergartener’s school’s Harvest Faire, I noticed his teacher and her kids laughing…

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7 Ways to Welcome the New Year with Mindful Self-Care

Between car troubles and a small flood in our playroom, this year got off to a rocky start. Two weeks of hoped productivity were gone along with some of the motivating New Year buzz. On my first work day back,…

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Sustainable, Simple, Slow LivingHi, I’m Jess. I’m a crunchy mama of two little boys who are almost always outrunning me. I do my best to let them lead and to sit in stillness and watch them. Like most moms, I struggle daily with patience (it is the thing I work on the most). I also struggle with presence, and it is at the heart of slow motherhood. 

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