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Sometimes the best stories happen when you’re not expecting them. This past weekend, something happened at a cottage trip that reminded me why authenticity matters more than “normal.” The Cottage Text That Sparked a Conversation We were headed up to one of our friends’ cottages. We meant to leave earlier (is anyone ever on time […]

The missions I gave my son that shifted anxiety into connection My little man has been having a rough start to the school year. New school. New routines. Friends scattered to other places. He’s been feeling a little lost, anxious, and untethered without his people. It reminded me of those transitional moments we all go […]

How to Build an AM Autopilot Routine That Actually Works The other morning, I posted a video in my LIFE AT A TEN® community while walking my dog at 5:30am, talking about how I need to rework my morning routine. I call it the AM Autopilot Routine. Why My Morning Routine Needed a Reset My […]

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Recently, I was reminded of one of the most surprisingly profound lessons I ever picked up… from my ex-husband. We were juggling some kid-schedule swaps. I wanted to take Jack for a couple of extra days, so we pulled out the fall calendar and made some weekend switches. He’s always easygoing about changes I request, […]

This week we had a very special visitor stay with us for the week. His name is Gus and he’s from Australia (which of course means I’ve had an involuntary/totally voluntary Australian accent the entire week).  We first met Gus as the First Mate/Captain on a Sailing Virgins Learn-to-Sail Adventure that Chad, me, and seven of our closest […]

This past weekend, we celebrated Duffin’s Day. Duffin’s Day is our made-up annual family holiday – based off of our made-up Family Name.We all have different last names, so we dubbed ourselves the Duffin’s based off of a hilariously named mountain biking trail we once went on – Duffin’s Trail. (Sorry, not sorry if you’re last name is Duffin’s – but […]

You Can Become Whoever You Want, Whenever You Want You know one of my favorite things about being alive? You get to be whoever you want — whenever you want. At any time. On any day. You can wake up and decide to become a slightly new version of yourself… or a totally different one. […]

Oh my god. Today was tough. Not in any real sense of hardship, but tough in that “dragging myself out of bed and out the door” kind of way. The reason? I’d been totally off schedule for the last week. I just got back from an incredible cottage stay: late nights, late mornings, day drinking, […]

Why You Should Always Go All In The day I brought my son Jack home from the hospital, I was a total disaster. It had been a natural home birth ? turned hospital birth (complete with four failed epidurals) ? turned emergency C-section. By the time my then-husband tucked me and baby Jack into bed, […]