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098 - Discernment Is A Gift, Mind Reading Is A Burden
In this episode, I start with something light and fun: a TikTok trend about the top song from your graduation year supposedly revealing how your life is going.
Since I graduated in 1996, that song happened to be...
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097 - Updates From My Little Corner
In this episode, I’m sharing a simple life update from the past week.
Matthew has now been in Japan for a week, and he is absolutely loving it. He loves the peacefulness, the mountains, the food, the affordability,...
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096 - A Mom Moment, a Flight to Japan, and the Space to Become
In this episode, I’m sharing from a very tender mom place as Matthew leaves for Japan to study abroad for a month.
His trip has brought up memories of when he was two years old and I wondered if he might be delayed in...
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095 - It Doesn’t Have to Stay This Way
In this episode of Thriving Mosaic, I’m sharing some honest reflections from my week as I continue learning how I actually function in this new season of life. I talk about what I discovered through experimenting with...
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094 - Office Hours, Peace, and the Words We Speak
In this episode, I’m sharing what this past week has looked like as I continue stepping into a new rhythm for my life and work. I’ve been setting more intentional office hours, cleaning and reclaiming my physical...
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093 - The Next Chapter Begins
This week’s episode is a little bit of everything: travel recovery, grace, family updates, dogs who do not believe in sleeping in, and a very meaningful next step in my own life and work.
After our trip to Texas with...
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092 - A Weekend of Emotions
This episode centers on McKenna's college graduation weekend in Bowling Green, and I'll be honest, I went into recording it already emotional. I had just watched a reaction video to Taylor Swift's "Ronan" and then...
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091 - When Life Feels Heavy and You Still Keep Showing Up
In this episode, I share a very real snapshot of life this week. McKenna’s graduation celebration gave me the perfect excuse to buy the buttercream cake I had been craving, and our simple family dinner turned into a...
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090 - Making Friends When You Don’t Leave the House
In this episode, I’m sharing a very ordinary, very real Sunday-night peek into my world: heated blankets, Rocky Road ice cream, meal prep, McKenna’s upcoming graduation, and the moment I remembered I still needed to...
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089 - When You Blink and They’re Grown
This week, I found myself sitting in a space I don’t think you can fully prepare for as a parent. My youngest daughter turned 21, and I’m still trying to wrap my mind around what that actually means. I’ve been...
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088 - When Fear Shows Up, But You Don’t Let It Lead
In this episode, I found myself reflecting on a simple phrase I came across that stopped me long enough to really sit with it: “Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.” That idea connected deeply with...
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087 - No Two Children Grow Up in the Same Home
This week’s episode started with a short clip I kept seeing over and over again. It was from an interview between Mel Robbins and Gabor Maté, and one statement in particular stayed with me:
No two children grow up in...
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