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Fixing what's-not-working in your life isn't rocket science.

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If family stress has you spinning your wheels, I want you to hear this first: you’re not crazy, weak, or failing—you’re overloaded.

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Victims don't change and they never win. (Not real victims, this is the kind of person who thinks they can't change their own life.)

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You have to decipher the difference between what you big-W-Want and little-w-want.

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When life gives you lemons, make a limoncello martini, make some hard decisions, and trust yourself to be able to handle what's next.

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Do you know what a Latch Key Kid is?

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I'm sure some days I have 8 personalities.

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I clogged the toilet at the hotel of my 6th grade trip.💩🪠

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So, what is flexible thinking, Kelly?

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Life coaching strategies you can steal.

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I have always been one of those people who does a million things but doesn't know the \"one thing\" I'm good at.

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This is a time in history like no other.

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Have you ever heard that song So Will I that says, “I can see your heart 8 billion different ways”? It means that each person is a reflection of God's heart!!

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Raise your hand if you just don't give a crap.

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God created us for relationship.

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I thought I might die some days.

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Lessons from David (1 Samuel 16+17)

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This is Kristi. I took her with me to an Acquire the Fire conference in 1992. Pictured here. #GodblessBobsBigBoy

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For reference, the definition of restraint is this. \n

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On Easter weekend, nearly one year after Marie passed away, and one year ago, we fulfilled the promise that was made. Marie, Vess and I fantasized that if Marie was healthy, it would be a dream for her and Vess to travel...

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       The days and weeks following Marie’s passing and memorial were mixed with the same busyness life was handing me before. Isaak graduated from high school, we went on vacation, then we prepared Isaak to leave for co...

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Just a week after I walked out of my best friend’s parent’s house, I was with my family at Bill’s Pizza downtown, having lunch with my family after church. We had ordered and we were chatting and enjoying the view of the...

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The Silence was riding shotgun with me all the way across the desert. I called and talked with Kip, my mom, my sister, but the silence was with me. It was becoming more of a numbness the more it happened. I didn’t know w...

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February came quickly for me and I hadn’t been back since before Christmas to visit. Since it was her birthday on the 16th, I called her and initiated a conversation about it. 

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As you may remember the yearly trips to Dominican were a regular occurrence every November. Well, it was time for another trip and I had a thousand details to nail down before we left. I had a team of people to lead, and...

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    The stent surgery was successful, and for the most part, it improved her situation. She was able to fear less about what she ate and she was less concerned about blockage in her intestines, but old and new problems p...

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The trip to Mexico came quickly. I emptied and refilled my suitcase, and I arrived at the beach, ready for a true fall break. We had massages on the beach, played football, spikeball, and all kinds of games. We ate too m...

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September was a slow month for Marie and I. I could feel the pace slow down from her side of our relationship, but for me, it was spinning faster and faster. The kids were back at school, I was still working, and the eve...

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    My third visit to Minnesota was in August. I was on pace to visit every other month at this point. When I stepped into the house this time, I came with a happy skip in my step. The last two visits had been so surpris...

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The morning after I had left, she and Vess were asleep in the early morning hours and Vess recalled back to me that Marie seized in their bed while he panicked and watched, frozen. He didn’t know what to do. He called 91...

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May turned into July faster than you can say summer break. My kids were home, we were doing all the things you normally do on Summer break. We went on vacation, we spent days at the pool, and went out to lunch more often...

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This is the moment where the original diagnosis came in. Return with me to the pizza shop where my phone vibrated my heart right out the door. In these early days of the cancer journey, shock, disbelief, and anger pepper...

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As a family, we have been involved in short term missions trips to Dominican Republic for a decade. My husband, Kip, was the first to go. He felt that God wanted him to serve in this way, and signed up for the weeklong t...

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Things didn’t get any easier for Marie and I and our long distance friendship when I met my husband and got married at 18 years old. Our lives just seemed to grow further apart from here. She pursued her master’s degree ...

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    It was everything I hoped for, I was invited to sit at the popular kids’ tables within days at my new high school in Phoenix. The kids were on student council, the football team, and even cheerleaders. I had just lef...

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    Marie and I met in second grade, and from second grade until fifth grade, we were the perfect kind of elementary school friends. I remember frequent days of playing at each other’s houses, joining dance classes toget...

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   Today is the first day I take my story public.\n

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Sometimes 75% off is still 25% too much, ya know?

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My friend, Justine Bunger, is the Assistant Dean of Students at Arizona Christian University and sent me some advice for you, all based on her perspective as a long time staff member at a University.

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Last week, a friend and college staff member at ACU in Phoenix, who teaches a leadership class asked her college students this icebreaker question:

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Have you ever jumped out the window when God closed a door?

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Here are a few things I learned when we moved our oldest son Isaak into his dorm at ASU in 2017. Keep in mind all dorms will not be the same. This is a list of things that we either needed to buy, bring, or ended up buyi...

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I remember the feeling of stress I had senior year of high school. It was a constant burden. It was so hard not knowing what I was \"supposed to\" do and trying to figure out what I \"wanted to do\" at the same time. I see l...

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I’ve always been in my own little, happy world.⁠

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I’ll never forget the way the light hit the water from the Slip ’n’ Slide. It was an exciting day because my mom bought us the coveted Slip ’n’ Slide we’d been taunted by on commercials for weeks.

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I was her only silver lining that day. My only offering was a simple trip to Whole Foods. Love and comfort walked through the door with 3 bags of real, organic vegetables, and add to that, her favorite flowers, purple pe...

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I felt like an imposter when I brought training to the teachers and staff at the deaf school in Dominican Republic this November (2019).⁠ On prior trips, I felt completely out of the loop of what was happening with the t...

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This one goes out to anyone listening who feels like they don’t have any one thing that they’re good at.

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Have you ever noticed how good humans are at making choices in the moment? We just go into a moment, make the right decision without thinking about it, and come out the other side having made the right choice. Everyone a...

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Mercy and Grace are often used together and interchangeably, it seems, but they are in fact different.

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