This Season Isn't Your Fade Out
It's Your Green Light For What's Next

You've Spent Years Showing Up For Everyone Else. Now It's Your Turn

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Notes From The Nest

Not polished. Not perfect. Just the honest, sometimes messy, middle-of-life moments that might sound a lot like yours.

Losing Yourself in Motherhood. And Finding Yourself Again

Somewhere between school drop-offs, travel sports, and client meetings, I lost a little piece of me. Sound familiar? It wasn’t dramatic at first. A skipped workout here, a postponed girls’ night there. Then, somewhere along the way, in the constant act of showing up for everyone else, I forgot how to show up for me. But I wasn’t aware of it. I was aware of, always feeling tired. So tired. Unreasonably annoyed for doing the things I have always done... all of it, grocery sh

Full Circle on the Lake

Another summer, another version of her...and of me In just a few days, we’ll do what we’ve done nearly every July since she was little, pack up the car and head north to my cousin's cottage in Michigan to celebrate our daughter’s birthday. This morning, a photo popped up in my memories: she’s maybe four, snuggled beside me on the boat, life vest zipped, cheeks still round with babyhood, talking to me like we had all the time in the world. And back then, it felt like we did. B

The Drive That Changed Everything

How an 18-hour road trip became the first step in both our new chapters. In mid-August of 2024, I climbed into the driver’s seat of my Acura RDX, loaded to the brim, with my daughter riding shotgun. We were headed from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Newark, Delaware, making the long trek to drop her off at college. But really, I was dropping her off at the start of the rest of her life. A life where I’d no longer be center stage. Instead, I’d be a guest star, showing up for holida

This Season Isn't Your Fade Out It's Your Green Light For What's Next

Boldly, unapologetically, and fully on your own terms.​