Category: Lifestyle Shift

Full(filled) not busy

“We’re so busy”, “it’s so busy”, “I’m so busy”.  I hear versions of these phrases multiple times a day.  Our lives are full, it’s true, but when we say busy,…
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Redefining success in 2025

At the start of each year, there’s a tendency to get caught up in the new year’s resolution hype, which often involves statements like “new year, new you” and various…
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Rethinking rest

Right from the beginning, rest was part of the rhythm of time.  Right from the beginning, even the Creator made space to rest.  And now, in these times, rest is…
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Is there still good?

Is there still good in this world when around me there are young families going through divorce, when a young father died of cancer and a mother of four died…
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Planting what matters

For so long I’ve dreamed of having a herb and veggie garden.  The kind like you see in the movies.  The kind that I can walk out my kitchen door…
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8 to 5

For five and a half years I’ve tried so hard to keep as much work at work as possible, so when I’m home, then I’m home. Now all of a…
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Making space

Somehow, the last quarter of the year always feels like the busiest. We all know that the December holidays, and the end of another year, are just around the corner,…
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Rise and shine

This morning did not go very well at all! A late night caused me to snooze my alarm clock and miss my quiet time (although I did make my run…
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Really real

Women apparently speak between 15 000 and 20 000 words per day.  This is far more than men, I’m lead to believe.  These words are spoken to strangers, colleagues, friends and family…
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Feel it in your bones

There are few things more liberating than turning up the volume on a happy sing-along song and dancing around crazily.  After all, as the well-known saying goes – dance like…
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