Welcome to our new series:

Cultivating Authentic Connections

This is a 4 week collaboration of inspiring women joining together to talk about the importance of developing authentic relationships in our day to day lives.

Be sure to join us, right here, every Monday!

Welcome Heart | Her View From Home | Down Aspen Lane | Be Thee Inspired

Do You Have People?

The Better Connected – Solid Advice, Sharing Sorrows

Do you have people? The kind that help you connect to God?

We are better together. I need someone to tell my story to. The Man-in-Plaid tries to listen. I do have so. many. stories.

I said to Mark:

I need you to ask me how I’m feeling…

He replied:

But I constantly know how you’re feeling!

Ha! True enough. I’m not one to keep my feelings to myself. I got that from Mom. (Right, Mom?)

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Welcome to the Overcoming Insecurity series! This is a 4 part, weekly series and collaboration of 4 inspiring women, joining together to encourage those of us who wrestle with insecurity.

That’s all of us, right?! 

Please join us each Wednesday for our new series!

Insecurity and the GOOD NEWS!

Be Thee Inspired | Milk & Honey Faith | Blue Jean Gypsy

A few years back I found myself on a teeny, tiny island in the north of New Zealand when my world was shaken to the core.

I had arrived one month earlier on the heels of my divorce. Two years prior to that, my only sibling had been murdered.

To say this was one of the most devastating times in my life was an understatement.

The trauma from these two painful situations had triggered deep fear and insecurity such as never before.

The kind of insecurity that had me questioning everything… especially my identity.

Sometimes life can kick the stuffing out of us and the resounding message we begin to hear erodes at the very core of who we are and of our Belovedness.

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Welcome to the Overcoming Insecurity series! This is a 4 part, weekly series and collaboration of 4 inspiring women, joining together to encourage those of us who wrestle with insecurity.

That’s all of us, right?! 

Please join us each Wednesday for our new series!

When Insecurity Says You’re Not Good Enough

Be Thee Inspired | Milk & Honey Faith | Blue Jean Gypsy | Beauty in My Brokenness

There was once an insecurity within me that took years for me to overcome.

Growing up I had a deep fear that I would not be able to go to Heaven and it stemmed from an experience I had with a family member as a small child.

Unfortunately, when a mature adult tells you something during your formative years it sticks with you and it’s absorbed as truth. Even if it’s a lie. That is precisely what happened to me.

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Welcome to the Overcoming Insecurity series! This is a 4 part, weekly series and collaboration of 4 inspiring women, joining together to encourage those of us who wrestle with insecurity.

That’s all of us, right?! 

Please join us each Wednesday for our new series!

Chronic Insecurity & the Truth that Will Set You Free

Be Thee Inspired | Milk & Honey Faith | Blue Jean Gypsy | Beauty in My Brokenness

I have always been an introspective person. My mother told me that even as a toddler I would carefully observe those around me and attempt to copy what they were doing.

While this particular trait has helped me learn and grow in certain areas of life, it has also managed to become a stumbling block.

As I grew, I continued to observe the behavior of others- their actions, their verbiage, their gestures, their wardrobe, their friends, etc. The things that made them uniquely THEM.

Only, now I began copying- not out of a desire to learn– but out of my desire to belong.

I thought that if I only acted more like the girls on the playground that seemed to exude unnatural confidence- without a care in the world, unafraid to be themselves, refusing to look to others for approval- then perhaps I too would start to feel more confident.

And maybe then, I would feel like I belonged.

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