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Nov 25, 20231 min read

96. Wildly Special

As a part of a leadership program years ago, I was asked to write a personal brand statement. What is my personal brand today? What do I...

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Oct 26, 20231 min read

89. It isn't a trip if you don't let lost

When something isn't serving you, start something new. If you don't like how you feel, what are you willing to do to feel differently? I...

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Sep 24, 20232 min read

88. I hope you are [routinely] awesome

As I work with people of all ages in my therapy practice, I often talk about the sacredness of routines. Routines are holy and...

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Sep 13, 20232 min read

85. Apologies in advance

I was talking to my sister recently about living and loving with a sense of urgency. I often feel a sense of urgency that not everyone...

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May 10, 20231 min read

62. Finding quiet

I say these words a few times a day to kids that come and go from my office. You can stay here in the quiet. It is one of the luxuries of...

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May 2, 20231 min read

60. The most rewarding work of our life

It would be so much easier if people met us where we were. Can you imagine a world where people around you understood your story, your...

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Apr 29, 20231 min read

49. Dig deep

I just got a petite shovel tattoo on my wrist. Intentionally, I can see the handle of the shovel every day as it wraps around the top of...

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Apr 21, 20231 min read

58. I miss our loud house.

I find myself missing our loud house. I miss loud dance parties with a larger-than-life toddler on my hip. I miss kids spinning around in...

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Apr 16, 20231 min read

57. On being cheerful

I have become fascinated with cheerfulness and how and what it can do to a group of humans or even to our own human heart. One of the...

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Mar 21, 20231 min read

56. Waiting

I am bad at waiting. It is something I am consciously working on. I will give my childhood some credit for this #bad_at_waiting trait. I...

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Mar 16, 20231 min read

55. Forever Committed

Hope you are forever committed to figuring yourself out. XOXO, Stacy Like this #typographyart? Our Etsy shop is open 24/7.

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Mar 13, 20231 min read

Our Etsy Store is Live.

Our Etsy Store! I will be adding designs regularly but here is a running head start with a few of my favorites. As always, custom orders...

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Feb 14, 20231 min read

50. Blue Sky

Finally! We had a couple of blue ski skiing days in the Rockies. While I enjoy skiing, I much prefer skiing on blue ski days. And when...

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Feb 2, 20231 min read

47. Thanks for caring

In the last 6 months, I made a big career transition. I took a sensational 90% pay cut to go and do more interesting work that I really...

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Jan 30, 20231 min read

46. Sensational living

What if the secret to good living is to find or create splendor and surprise in the small moments and corners of our days? All typography...

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Jan 27, 20231 min read

45. The mountains in our mind

I have tried to come up with all sorts of metaphors for what may be standing in the way of people wanting or being able to change....

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Jan 13, 20231 min read

42. The human defrag

It is official — after doing two jobs for 90 days and a new job for 60 days, I am still in defrag mode. I feel like an oddly shaped hard...

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Dec 30, 20221 min read

38. Things I want to be when I grow up

These words continue to come to me. I had to pull out my tattered copy of 100 Rad Virtues to see how I have written about them in the...

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Dec 2, 20221 min read

32. The rising sun

I do an exceptionally shitty job of acknowledging...like really acknowledging the rising or setting of the sun every day. It is wild to...

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Nov 29, 20221 min read

31. Rescued

Who and what turns your sorrows into joys? Who and what have rescued you from yourself? Reach out to those people. Do those things. I am...

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