In that space of brave and real
When I ask how you are, I want the real answer. The answer you're brave enough to share with me. When you ask how I am, I will tell you how I really am to the depth I am brave enough
Walking alongside
"In my 20 years of educational experience, I have never had such a dynamic, purposeful, and meaningful professional development. This should be required of all administrators. Justine is the one presenter I have seen that gave it 100% in terms
It’s been a wild ride and it’s only just beginning.
Seventeen years ago, we had no idea what lay ahead of us. We've turned toward one another through the darkest valleys of loss and pain. We've walked alongside one another up the peaks of rebuilding, building, and dream-making. We are such different
Feel it all
Allowing our emotions to manipulate and control us means we live in reaction, which means we often also live in guilt and shame for those reactions. First, feel it all. Second, we must forgive ourselves for reacting. It is then we can fully
It’s time to finally be kind to, love, show up, and follow through for yourself.
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The unspoken is never benign.
You can cut the tension with a knife.You can feel the unspoken.You're thinking the same thing that probably everyone else is thinking. And yet, no one is naming it. The meeting goes on.Trudging through the muck of unspoken tension.Attempting to just get
Are you choosing courage?
How do you know if you are choosing courage? Ask yourself: Does this bring me into connection? Is it aligned with my values? If yes, then you are walking in courage.
Healing together
When you've had two back surgeries in high school after being misdiagnosed for a year and a half, the medical trauma you carry with you and must heal from is great.
Sometimes a good nugget comes out in my stories and I make it teach…fresh face, dirty hair, and all.
Who can you love on today? Today, I hope you receive mine.
May we own our part always.
What people think of you is none of your business. Plus, what they think of you probably has more to do with them than with you. Take nothing personally.