Discomfort doesn’t last forever
Feelings - WHO has time for them??? I get it, and believe me I feel this way sometimes too, but ignoring our feelings can lead to negative consequences on our health journey. Listen to this episode for some simple ways to manage the discomfort of...
What coaching is teaching me
I am surprised by just how much my nurse coaching practicum is teaching me about myself. It has been quite the adventure already and I still have months to go! Today's oil sponsor is Cilantro because some people love it and some people think it tastes...
Never stop Learning
Over the past 6 months or so, due to the political landscape in America, I realized just how little I remembered about how our government *actually* works! So I did something about my lack of knowledge. I joined a Government for Grownups class and it is...
Questioning Faith
Another warning label, sorry guys, this is who I am! This episode I share some recent struggles I have had regarding our current political climate and my personal faith. 2020 was a wild ride for sure. I hope you will join in the conversation so we can all...
Mom on a Mission
Before I became a parent, I thought all of those stories about a mother’s love and mother bear were just exaggerations. And for the first few years of being a parent, there wasn’t that big of a difference between Kami and me. Megan was in most ways the ‘perfect’...
Braving it out
After 200K views on FB, we wanted to enable sharing of this video beyond Facebook so we felt it was a good idea to upload it here. This is our family’s story of our mumps journey. We never intended to enter into the vaccination debate (EVER) but here we are. More than...
No time for Lyme
We have had a lot of medical twists and turns since Jeffrey was born. Least of all was last summer when his right knee started to swell. It was at a family funeral that we first noticed he was limping. He had significant swelling of his right knee, seemingly out of...
Obstacles…
This is NOT the post that I had planned for today. Not by a long shot…I had originally planned to be blogging from another country, but that wasn't the case. 18 months ago, I heard something that drew my interest. doTERRA was going to become an open market in some...
Helping Hands
"We get by with a little help from our friends"-The Beatles Dan shared his thoughts on Jeffrey's sports night experience last week and now it is my turn. The ENTIRE event two words kept coming into my thoughts...HELPING HANDS. If you look at some of the pictures you...
Limitless
DISCLAIMER: Parenting is hard. Real hard. The decisions that parents make for their children are personal ones which come from years of experiences - as a child and as a parent. What I’m writing today is not a judgment on others parenting styles or philosophies. It’s...
Business Partners
Commitment and Partnership. Two things our pastor discussed on Sunday night and the timing could not have been more perfect. Dan and I are committed to our marriage and our family, but also to our business. The added duties of building a business together *could* put...
Junior Prom
The Junior Prom was last Friday, a rite of passage for all high schoolers. But it was an event that we NEVER thought he'd be able to go to. So much has changed... I can remember when we first realized that something was different. He couldn't hold his head up, was...