Welcome to Monarch Meadows Retreat.
For nearly ten years, Chad and I have dreamed a big dream. Over those years, I have taught and spoken in some of the biggest, fanciest ballrooms to some of the dreariest basements and everything in between, including therapists' offices,
Do the things.
When things get tough. When it feels dark. When life is a lot and maybe even too much
You can’t give what you don’t have
My email vacation setting was on for a whole week. I spent quality time with family, chosen and not, and only have one picture to prove it because instead of documenting, I chose presence.
We can all learn and grow and change.
If I didn't believe people couldn't learn, grow, and change, I would go do something else for a living. Sometimes they don't want to. Sometimes they make you think for a long while they won't either. And yet, we all
Let it.
Eleven years later, taking care of my senior eleven-year-old dogs. Every morning, I push a stroller, and every night I put on their diapers.
You are more loved than you can imagine, I promise.
I don't know exactly how it works, but somehow, in the darkest of dark of my life, I have found the brightest light. And it has left me in complete awe and wonder of everything in this life. And somehow,
Some truth for you to remember today
I am apologetically full of..
Two years ago…
Two years ago, the first strike of hell of living with Trigeminal Neuralgia struck, literally taking me to my knees in a cold sweat begging for my life. Several months later, we'd discover mold to be the root of my
Choosing to Make the Time
There must come a point for us all that we have had enough. Enough of feeling miserable. Enough of being busy with things we don't care about or that don't make us happy.