The S P I R I T E D Life Journal

If you have been feeling depleted or running on autopilot, try this small exercise. You do not need a special tracker—just a notebook and a few minutes.

These five practices can help you notice what is pulling at your attention and make choices that reflect what you value.

There is something about the beginning of a new season that makes us want to begin again. We imagine a better routine, a cleaner kitchen, a calmer mind. We make lists of everything we ought to change. But sometimes the kindest place to begin is with a quieter question: What does my body need from me right now? Maybe you’ve been tired, but you keep pushing through. Maybe your meals have become hurried, your sleep has slipped, or you can’t remember the last time you took a walk

Happy Monday Friends! Welcome to a fresh new week! We are inching our way closer and closer to fall weather, cooler temperatures, crisp air and the holidays right around the corner! I am so excited for cozy season and looking forward to all that it offers! A slower pace of living for a while, closeness and togetherness with family and celebrations that feel rich with deeper meaning. I'm excited to share that I am enrolled in the final capstone of my schooling, only 4 months l

There is something within us that remembers. We remember the comfort of warm tea steeped with herbs. The healing nourishment of food grown from the earth, perhaps even our own back yard. The way sunlight, fresh air, movement, deep rest, and time in nature can bring us home to ourselves. Long before wellness became an industry, people turned to plants, roots, minerals, nourishing foods, and the rhythms of the natural world to care for themselves and one another. This connectio

How Ordinary Moments Become Meaningful When We Choose to Inhabit Them Fully. Good Monday evening I hope your weekend was restful and full of nourishment! I hope you were able to take time to be present to the things that slow you down a bit and fill your soul full of peace. My weekend was quiet, low key and so full on enrichment. I re-learned how to crochet- something I started 18 years ago, when I had my daughter...but life got busy with a newborn and I never finished her ba

Perhaps wanting less allows us to experience life at a greater depth.