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The Lens of Beauty – Make Your Home Your Sanctuary

March 7, 2025

Hello TeamConfessioners—as I mentioned last week, today you are going to hear a Summer Submission from my close friend, Christine Toner. Christine is joined today by her visionary partner [...]

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Winter Pace – The Art of Doing Something While Doing Nothing

February 28, 2025

Team, are you familiar with that feeling when sitting back and relaxing suddenly turns against you? It’s like one minute I find that I can’t wait to just sit [...]

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Confessions of a Martyr – Falling Off the Wagon

February 21, 2025

Our TeamDe family schedule in September, October, and November was more than I could handle. This fall hit us hard with transitions, travel, events, and health issues straight out [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day – The Best Thing I Can Do For Love

February 14, 2025

Team, as I get older, I’m getting a little mouth on me. While early in my recovery of micromanagement I needed to take a few days before bringing issues [...]

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Expectations – Am I Setting People Up for Failure?

February 7, 2025

With Super Bowl Sunday just days away, it feels like the perfect time to revisit a lesson I learned from football—a topic I first covered several years ago. While [...]

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Complain, Complain – When You Talk To Your Friends, Remember THIS!

January 31, 2025

Recovery: Positive Lifestyle Changes

One of my favorite things to read to the kids when they were little was the Shel Silverstein poem, Complainin’ Jack. Have you guys heard this one? Well, if [...]

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Being A Good Friend – Checking My Motivation

January 24, 2025

Listen, we know that all humans have agendas. I do, others do—that’s part of evolution. I’m trying to get my needs met. I accomplish things, create things, and protect [...]

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Planning Ahead – A Self-Care Hack for After Holiday Mondays

January 17, 2025

Recovery: Positive Lifestyle Changes

Team, guess what we have coming up next week? A Take It Easy Tuesday! And I want to be sure that I plan for it now. If you’re new [...]

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Trouble Getting Your Ducks in a Row? 6 Steps to Gentle Motivation

January 10, 2025

Holy good God—does this feel like a good week to talk about slow starts? Some of us had all our ducks in a row on Monday and came out [...]

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Keely McCarthy – Building Support for Life

January 3, 2025

Recovery: Positive Lifestyle Changes

Today I’m sharing a Summer Submission sent in by my cousin Keely Grace McCarthy. Keely shares a technique she learned in graduate school called “scaffolding.” She writes… Scaffolding in [...]

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Dan Shay – Why Am I Surprised?

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A Reason To Trust The World – A Lesson From Life and My Husband

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