IABA Owner’s Blog
Peace Amidst Fear
Over the course of the summer, I've taken you through my understanding of anger. Quite personally I needed to write about it because it was pulsing through my veins. While I have an incredible amount of compassion,...
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You Are Not Made to Burn
Over the course of the past several months, I've filled my audible account with one healing book after another. If you scroll through it you'll see writers who supported me as I emotionally held my own heart...
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Guiding Anger to Love
What do you do with anger that’s real? Anger that will burn cities and clear anything and everything in its path? Where did it come from and why is it here? The very short answer is anger...
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All the Rage
Over the last several weeks I've written to you about staying true to yourself through trauma and the turmoils of life. As a woman, I used to think that staying true to myself meant being happy and...
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Beautiful Truth
Okay, so at this point, you and the nation might be sick of the quote from Glennon Doyle about the cheetah realizing she is not crazy, she is trapped from her wild. I'm going to pre-apologize for...
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Stand Your Sacred Ground
At this point in my writing, I'm pretty sure that my readers are aware I'm a Brene Brown junkie. Glennon Doyle is becoming a close second. I quote Brene often and today is no different. Brene often...
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A New Chapter
It's been a little over a year since I started blogging. I was asked to start blogging by my marketing team to bring relevant information to our families. I was secretly waiting for this invitation because I've...
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North Star
Last week I wrote to you about the ring. In it, I shared that often in life we are confused about the noises from the stands and distracted by what is right in front of us. On...
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Leave the Pain
Last week, I wrote about the importance of sitting with pain and fear. In writing this piece I wanted to give others hope for how to sit in our own discomfort to live a life of joy....
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How to Sit with Pain
I’ve written so much over the past six months about the importance of walking through pain, being at home with yourself, and shedding all that does not serve you. I’ve taken you through the woods, into the...
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Spirit of a Warrior
Fear lives inside of us as a wise messenger, to tell us when we are not ourselves; to tell us when we are in danger. Yet unguided fear, as I wrote about last week, loses her wisdom...
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The Witch Hunt
When I was a child I went through a period where I was obsessed with the Salem Witch Trials. My mom even took me to Salem to see the museum. At the time I think I was...
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A Few of My Favorite Things
Over the past several months I've been writing to you about the courage and joy that come from walking through pain. About the importance of feeling our feelings versus shoving them down, avoiding them, or taking them...
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Finding Authentic Joy
In closing out my last series about struggle, grief, and, and strength I intentionally wanted to write about authentic joy. I wanted to experience and provide an example about how joy can be found anywhere and anytime....
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Too Strong for Who?
I don't know if this is true for anyone else who has a sister but my sister is part of me and I'm part of her. I can't explain it but we know each other in our...
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