Celebrating Me. Celebrating You.
My first year of law school, I flunked a class. Contracts I. I just didn’t get it. And when your entire grade rides on one test for the entire semester and you don’t get it? You flunk the class. I still remember walking down the hall to see the grades for my number. Each student [...]
A few years ago I read Gretchen Rubin’s bestselling book, The Happiness Project. I took away many *things* from that book, namely: Happiness is what you make it. Instant gratification can cause long term unhappiness. (I talked about it here before.) The notion of of whether you’re an abstainer or a moderator. In a nutshell, [...]
It’s the eve of a family vacation. A vacation we’re taking both of the kids out of school for. See, each child has already had a spring break. Separately. Which means this is my third spring break in six weeks. I’m thinking of it as the ultimate in playing hooky. There’s a bit of a [...]
I have two faces that represent “me.” This is the face I present to the world, most days. This is the face my family sees every day. It’s the real me, and if it’s enough for them, I want it to be enough for you too. To be real and enough, you don’t have to [...]
Last year for my 40th birthday, I hired a personal shopping duo to update my wardrobe. When they came for my consult, they first wanted to talk about my style. They asked, “What celebrities do you emulate?” Crickets. They clarified, “When you read magazines, which celebrities are you drawn to the most?” Chirp, chirp, chirp. [...]
Her 10th birthday approaching, all she wanted was a sleepover. But I knew we couldn’t do a sleepover. It’s busy season here and having 6-10 giggling school girls over for the night, maybe up all night, would be too hard for our schedules. Her runner-up choice was a “Red Carpet Party” at a place called [...]
I used to hate the Winter holidays – Martin Luther King day and President’s Day. My kids were too young to need a break, so the “day off” was less break and more work for me. They still woke up too early. The weather is usually still bad, so leaving the house was no fun. [...]
“I read an article saying that spelling bees should be eliminated,” a friend of mine recently shared. “The basis is that you’re either a speller or you’re not and it’s too stressful to have non-spellers try something they just can’t do.” I think I over-reacted. I replied, a little too loudly, “Oh, then should we [...]
I find that some things give me an immediate pleasure about doing them, only to be disappointed later with the consequences of my choice. Conversely, the things that don’t give me immediate pleasure give me long term happiness. Gretchen Rubin talks about it in her book, The Happiness Project. If I choose the cake today, [...]
We are thrilled to have added two new members to our Just.Be.Enough. team. Today, we get to know Missy. ————- I didn’t discover the darker side of perfectionism until I had my first child. Growing up, I thought perfectionism meant I strove to be “my best,” or that I liked everything “just so.” That’s what [...]
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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