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Avail Yourself Of This Opportunity

November 10, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

One year ago Donald Trump was elected president, and the country had a total freak out. I was reminded of this yesterday when a post I wrote the day after the election entitled It’s not a death sentence. It’s a wake-up call  popped up in my newsfeed. In a nutshell, I wrote about people’s inability […]

Filed Under: Advice, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: Board of Education, Brother David Steindl-Rast, episode, gratitude, hope, opportunities, Oprah, podcast, SuperSoul conversations, trust

Are You Cultivating Your Creativity?

October 25, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

In the early days of this blog, I was sometimes a little bit aggressive. At the same time I was often overly defensive. I was exhausted and in the thick of it and feeling underappreciated and overextended and not very confident. While one of my goals in sharing my experiences was to let other moms […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: Brene Brown, creativity, Oprah, shame, SouperSoul Conversations, Vulnerability

Because You Might Not Get One More Week

October 19, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

My current favorite podcast is Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations. (The Tony Robbins, Brene Brown, and Glennon Doyle episodes are three of my favorites). All the episodes are about thirty minutes long. They are the perfect length for a half hour workout. Today while I was on the elliptical, I listened to the Michael Singer episode. He’s […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: death, Michael Singer, Oprah, podcasts, the untethered soul

We All Get What We Tolerate

September 21, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

This past July when I was at a really, REALLY low point and struggling with having all the kids home and trying to work both in and out of the home and feeling hopeless about my marriage and being incredibly stressed out over financial stuff and dealing with this stupid injury in my butt and […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: chaos, gratitude, Oprah, priorities, prioritizing, resentment, suffering, tolerance, Tony Robbins

My brain needs to start working out again.

November 2, 2016 by not your average mom 18 Comments

Do you guys read a lot? I used to love to read. Then I had kids, and I was too tired to read anything that didn’t have pictures in it (except for (affiliate) The Book With No Pictures, cause the kids love that one). The exhaustion of having five kids under the age of  8 years […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: books, Gilmore Girls, kids, Number 4, Oprah, reading, rory

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