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...

Breathing Room Blog Book Club — Chapter 3

If you are just joining our Breathing Room Book Club, you can catch the previous posts here: Prelude, Chapter 1, Chapter 2. Also, if you want the posts delivered right to your email when I put them up, you can subscribe to my blog on the righthand sidebar. And,...

Breathing Room Blog Book Club — Chapter 2

Here’s the latest installment of our book club . . . from my dining room to yours! In early drafts of the manuscript, I titled this chapter “Talking Back to the Toxic Voices” and then in later drafts I changed “Toxic Voices” to...