Permission to Dream

When doors close, windows open. We've all heard some version of this phrase at some point. Maybe we believed it, maybe we even experienced it. Or maybe we said bullshit and tucked that pain of disappointment, loss, and doors slamming in our faces down deep in our bones. 

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Brandie Joyce Trigger
Choose Kindness

Today is World Kindness Day, and what a timely thing as I just spoke last Friday at a Child Advocates of Fort Bend training on the topic of kindness and its relationship to our wellbeing. 

And while we could talk all day about the importance of being kind to others (and holy wow, don't we need this now), I'd like to say that an even more essential practice is self-kindness, or self-compassion. 

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Brandie Joyce Trigger
Cyclical Living and the Moon

Our bodies are made of 60% water. Water is affected by the moon; that's what creates tides. Our bodies are affected by the moon too. In fact, it affects our hormonal cycles in miraculous ways. When women are living away from artificial light, our cycles automatically sync up with the lunar cycles, bleeding at the new moon and ovulating at the full moon. - Kate Northrup, Do Less

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Brandie Joyce Trigger
Curiosity + Kindness

We’re all navigating new waters here- juggling work or unemployment, kids, homeschool (or not), trying to take care of ourselves and not be consumed by fear of the unknown. I don’t know about you, but everything that I struggled with before COVID, now feels amplified. I cannot avoid seeing my own struggle to try to achieve some kind of balance, to hustle and always make progress, dream big, make a positive “impact” in the world, to be a present, loving, creative mom and wife, and look graceful and at ease in the process.

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It's not as hard as we think

Truth be told, Houston is too much for me most of the time. Too much traffic, driving, violence, pollution, humidity, congestion, and stimulation. I thrive being near the water or in nature where I can tune into the rhythms of earth and life- where I look around, exhale, and my soul can sink in and feel peaceful. When I’m exhausted and overstimulated, my body, soul, work, and family suffers.

So what happens when we can’t get away to nature or whatever restores us? How do we access the rest we need?

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