Breathing Room Blog Book Club — Chapter 7

Ok, let’s talk about feeling frantic. I think there are a few different kinds of frantic: Momentary. Seasonal. Perpetual. Sometimes we’re momentarily frantic because of overstimulation or public speaking or feeling misunderstood and therefore defensive or...

breathing room blog book club — chapter 6

If I were to add anything to this chapter, it would be this: FIND SOMEONE. Find someone who will listen to you, love you, cheer you on. Find someone who will guide you, believe in you, remind you of who you are. Find someone who will sit with your crazy, sit with your...

DO. THE. THING.

I love being around people who are creating. I love witnessing self-expression (see all previous mentions of Project Runway). I love how there is no scarcity in creativity. It just keeps giving and giving and multiplying and inspiring and quadrupling and compounding....

Breathing Room Blog Book Club — Chapter 5

I was in Texas this past weekend, speaking at a women’s retreat for Collective Church. One of my favorite things in all the world is a room full of women, and this was a truly special group. We laughed. We cried. We ate together. We talked essential oils. We hugged. I...

Breathing Room Blog Book Club — Chapter 4

Well, this chapter is very close to my heart and has perhaps been one of the most often referred to chapters of the entire book. The chapter title “beginning again” comes from that perfect line from Saint Benedict, “Always we begin again.” I have loved the “beginning...