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I needed a break.  I couldn’t handle it anymore.  All of my favorite business, health, and self-help podcasts that usually made me feel inspired, excited, and lifted-up, had left me overwhelmed, deflated, and like I’d never be enough.  Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of resources out there about how to be a girlboss and achieve your dreams.  There’s constant motivation to keep pushing and grinding and to “do it tired”.  But sometimes, a gal’s gotta nap when she’s tired.  Am I right?  At the same time, there’s also a movement for slowing down, living with less, and finding joy right where you are. So what happens when you fall between these two lifestyles.  What happens when you’re a girlboss...

No matter how hard you try, you can’t find perfect balance in life.  But you can find it in your clothing and that’s part of the reason why I’m so in love with it.  If you let it, I believe clothing can serve as perfectly balanced tools to help you show up as your best.    I talk about clothing as a tool a lot, which is a little abstract but I’m going to try to explain what I mean.  Maybe the simplest way to see clothing as a tool is in the physical sense. We all need clothing to get through our day and what we wear can facilitate or hinder our work.  So clothing can be a physical...

Last week, after spending a rather large portion of my day feeling blocked and uninspired, I decided to stop thinking so much and just write about what was on my heart.  So I wrote My 5 Favorite Ways To Prioritize Rest In A Busy Summer.  This week, I want to piggy back off of that idea and dig into the shift that needed to happen for me to actually be able to slow down.  And from the title of this post I bet you can guess what it was…yep, I needed to start saying ‘no’. I feel like this idea of saying ‘no’ is around a lot in the circles of us gals who are trying to slow down so...

It seems like prioritizing rest has become so important in my life recently.  This summer I’ve been wrestling burn out almost weekly as I stare at the mountain of a to-do list that I have in front of me.  Amidst all the traveling, work, and summer festivities, I’ve been able to recognize early signs of burnout as general exhaustion, lack of ambition, and the feeling that my work will never be good enough (and that it doesn’t matter at all). As soon as I start to feel any of these things, I’ve started resisting the knee-jerk response to lean in, put my head down, and work harder.  Instead, I’ve done quite the opposite.  I’ve started taking a step back, taking...

I was doing a Beachbody on Demand workout the other day and the trainer was talking about having healthier relationships with food, especially when it comes to using food as a reward.  She said that when you’ve accomplished a fitness goal, instead of rewarding yourself with a cupcake, reward yourself with some new gym clothes… Cue my forehead dropping into my hand.  What this trainer (who had nothing but good intentions) didn’t understand was that rewarding yourself with new gym clothes can be as destructive as rewarding yourself with a cupcake.  When we use clothing as a reward, we are encouraging the idea that we aren’t worthy of investing in unless we accomplish something.  To buy gym clothes as a...

In a week it will be a year since the thing that everyone hopes will never happen to them happened to us.  We held the hand of one of the people we love most in the world as he took his last breath, way too soon.  When he was just 51 years old, my dad left us.  He left us on July 16th, on my husband’s 25th birthday.  I’m still working on wrapping my mind around that.  It’s something I’ve been trying to create the capacity to accept.  To hold the gift of someone being given to you and the pain of someone being taken away in the same hand at the same time and receive them both, is something...

I want to get one thing straight: just because I’m a total homebody, doesn’t mean I don’t  also love travel.  A lot of people assume that just because I love snuggling in with a good book, spending evenings in a messy kitchen, and taking long baths, that means I don’t enjoy any activities outside of our sweet home.  Travel?  They’re convinced that’s the last thing I’d want to be doing.  But here’s the truth, my desire to experience new places is real and I love spending time in other parts of the county and the world.  My husband and I recently got back from a two week trip where we got to experience Dublin and London.  We spent 11 adventure...

If you’re anything like I used to be, you have a full closet.  Yep, that thing is full.  It’s full of workout clothes and impulse clearance finds that have yet to be touched.  It’s full of special occasion outfits and those skinny jeans that you only wear for girl’s night out.  It’s full of blazers from long forgotten job interviews and sweatpants for those lazy Saturday nights.  Does this sound like what’s inside your closet?…I thought so.  I bet I can also guess what’s not in your closet: A uniform that will facilitate the all work that you need to do today.  Clothing that’s not only comfortable but that fits you well, presents you professionally, and makes you feel like...

If you’ve been hanging around here, you know that I love routines.  I get really lit up about helping women discover what nurturing routines look like in their lives.  But for as important as healthy, everyday routines are, it’s equally important to step out of those routines every once and awhile to make sure that they’re aligned with your purpose.  Stepping out of your routine can look like a lot of things.  I had the opportunity to step out of my routine earlier this month when my family road tripped to North Carolina for my cousin’s wedding.  My mom found a VRBO with a little cabin in the mountains, nestled on a working farm.  This was one of the most...

photo by Kellie Hayden It’s been the hot topic on my blog lately, work-from-home uniforms.  And here’s why: whether you’re an entrepreneur, a stay at home mama, a remote employee, or a gal with a side hustle, you need to be productive with your time at home.  And clothing is a helpful tool for this that’s so often overlooked.  But the truth is, clothing matters when it comes to how you feel and how you show up.  So let’s dig into the 5 ways that what you wear can make you more productive:     It’s the first decision you make in a day. Or at least one of the first!  By having your go to uniform made up of...