Celebrating Me. Celebrating You.
Dear 16-year-old me, You’ve got a pretty sweet life and right now it feels like the whole world could be yours. After coming back from a four-month exchange in Germany I know you’re consumed by conflicting feelings of wanderlust and wondering if you have what it takes to make it in the much smaller world of [...]
“Family is the love you’re given. Friendship is the love you choose.” –Anon. On Thursdays we discuss our families here at Just.Be.Enough. We write about the complexities of being a family and being enough inside those relationships. But what if your family is made up of more than the people who share the same DNA? [...]
There are very few people who are as honest, funny, and open about being who they are as Jill Smoker, also known to many as Scary Mommy. Jill shares stories, moments, and reflections on life on her incredibly successful site and has recently published her first book. Jill embodies the Be Enough lifestyle with humor [...]
Our bodies. As women they are so entwined with our self esteem and feelings of worth that many times it’s simply impossible to separate the two. Now imagine that your feelings of being “womanly” are the ones you can only see with your eyes. For instance when you gaze into the mirror you see yourself, your [...]
I came across this video recently and it’s one of those things that just makes me smile. There’s really nothing I can say about it that doesn’t come across in beautiful, musical wordlessness here, so I’ll just leave you with this video and one question: What beauty have you left in the world lately? [...]
Before I even got pregnant, my husband and I decided I would go back to work after maternity leave and he would stay home with the kid(s). This was a perfect solution for us, because I was pretty sure I didn’t want to stay at home and he was pretty sure he did. We were [...]
“The greatest love of all, is happening to me. Learning to LOVE YOURSELF, it is the greatest love of all.” –W. Houston Love is in the air with Valentine’s Day fast approaching. Cards, flowers and chocolates will be gobbled up and given to show our friends, families and lovers how much we care about them. [...]
Five days in Haiti. Many introductions of who I am, what I do, what is important to me. Building capacity became a mantra for our trip, for what is important in my life, and in what I saw as my eyes met the faces of the artisans, women, men, and children I met each day. [...]
Imagine feeling taller. Imagine feeling stronger from the inside out. Imagine knowing and BELIEVING that you are strong. Just.Be.Enough.
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