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Learning to Fall: What Skateboarding is Teaching Us

I started skateboarding recently. In my 40s. I mean, I fooled around with a board in my teens and twenties, in someone’s cul-de-sac or cruising up and down the Mission Beach boardwalk. There were also the skateboard-keg shuttles in college…

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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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“But I don’t like to play….”

“But I don’t like to play….”

Note: this post was originally published as part of the Play module in Peaceful Mamas, (yes! there is an entire module on play, because it is so important) but I know that many of us feel guilty because we don’t…

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Small child and dog walking along foggy beach.

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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Slow Motherhood Challenge: You Don’t Have to Do it All

Slow Motherhood Challenge: You Don’t Have to Do it All

I call myself the Chief Doer, Finder, and Knower. You probably have a similar role at home. But this is a reminder that you don’t have to do it all. You really don’t.

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We find ourselves rushing from one thing to another. We are too busy for this and that. What would change if we focused on finding time to slow down?

There is Time For That: Finding Time to Slow Down

We find ourselves rushing from one thing to another. We are too busy for this and that. What would change if we focused on finding time to slow down?

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15 Ways to Embrace Slow Motherhood

Slow motherhood can mean so many things. As many mothers as there are, there are versions of slow motherhood. But, here are 15 ways to embrace slow motherhood that have worked for me. I invite you to choose a few that work for you.

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Motherhood happens so fast. If we want to slow down, we need to define what we want and create a more intentional life. Start with your core values.

How To Create a More Intentional Life

Motherhood happens so fast. If we want to slow down, we need to define what we want and create a more intentional life. Start with your core values.

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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. 

This is my little space to help you find peace and ease by making your life simple, sustainable, slow

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