Passionate on purpose

My girl.
My rock.
My cheerleader.
My safe space.

You always know when I may need you. You are always there for my girls. You always know exactly what to say. You always have a way of building me up and I love that you always try to make me see myself through the lense you see me through.

There are times in our life that were pretty difficult that I can say I’m not sure I would have made them through without you.

So saying THANK YOU and I LOVE YOU are truly an understatement.

There isn’t a day I don’t think of you. There isn’t a moment that I don’t send healing vibes your way. When you are hurting or in pain I only wish I could take it all away.

I hope you truly know how beautifully perfect you are and I’m blessed to have you in my life.

I LOVE YOU more then words can say ❤️

Happy Birthday ✨✨😍❤️🥂

Episode 50!!! We did it. Almost at a year!

Get to know us as we answer a series of questions.

I really enjoyed this episode!

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Check out my reel (by scanning qr code) to see the inside of Hayden’s and my teen edition.

When I made my first workbook it was what I needed, as a women. It was the daily work and healing my mind needed. Then I thought about how all our feelings and thoughts are created young and how we could start the work before we get to the place of needing healed. That’s when my daughter and I came up with the teen edition.

This is our sample copy and it is beautiful AND exactly the work my teen needs too. Probably most girls her age.

We are so happy to have the chance to bring this to life. Now the work begins on getting there!

Give us a follow on Instagram and stay tuned for the release of these journal/workbooks coming hopefully soon ✨❤️

March 26 - Epilepsy Awareness Day - a day late because I actually for the first year wasn’t thinking about their epilepsy.

I’m not sure if things have just gotten so much easier over time or if we have just gotten so used to the life that comes with epilepsy.

Either way, we have come so far.

I still remember the day I woke up and saw the blank stares in each of my children’s faces. It was like something got taken from them. That liveliness and colour got muted.

I still remember the month my child dropped 15 pounds and was such a small shell of a human and so many stares and questions. Looks of why aren’t these parents feeding their child…

I still remember the days of pinning my children down to take meds that they fought so hard. An hour every morning and every night. A period of our life that I still deep down have some nightmares about.

I still remember trying to drop my child at school and her running away every morning in tears that she didn’t want me to leave her. I remember the days I went to my car and cried myself.

I still remember the day I was told both my children would have a really hard time learning and this would effect how they would graduate school.

I still remember fighting tooth and nail for support in school and it took far too many years.

I still remember hearing they both may never drive.

I still remember the hard days on our marriage. Not because we struggled ourselves but because our life was hard and we didn’t have a lot to give each other. We were frozen in time. No real growth. Some resentment of who had to do more.

I still remember the friendships I pushed away because I didn’t like being the one that always had a problem. I was exhausted. I wasn’t myself.

I still remember becoming more and more homebodies and little family ventures camping and such away from people because the anxiety that was happening and busy places didn’t work.

I still remember wondering if our life would ever go back to where it was before 2012, the year both my girls got diagnosed with a type of epilepsy.

It wasn’t easy.

But I always told myself that everyone had some sort of hard. I told myself it could be worse. I told myself you were given this life and it’s yours to figure out. Be positive. Suck it up so to say.

And one day I remember telling myself it was ok to break down and admit it was far too hard and that somewhere I had lost myself in the days.

And it was then that the healing started. I was allowed to say it was hard. I was allowed to find a way to build myself back up and heal so that I could continue to heal and fight for them.

11 years in and we have come so far. We have overcome obstacles that we were told we may never. We fought and we will continue to always fight. The strength in these children is amazing.

Epilepsy and the things that come with it can be so much more then the seizure itself and I want people to know that are on this same journey that it is ok to ask for help. It is ok to cry. It is ok to say it’s hard (even if it could be worse) and believe it or not, it does somehow get easier as they get older.

Again, whether we all get stronger… or it gets easier.

The journey isn’t about how hard it is for us anymore raising these children. The journey is now about the children that are young adults now learning to navigate their own life. This will forever be something they carry.

The amazing thing is the resilience these girls have learned.

I KNOW they will do amazing things.

I KNOW they will be ok.

This has made them who they are and that is two very special souls ❤️

One of my bigger struggles over the years was loving myself. It’s amazing how we can grow up in a beautiful environment and be loved by others yet struggle with loving ourselves. ⁣
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I think this comes in many different forms for many people but I think one of my biggest things I have learned is we are all deserving of LOVE. Every single one of us. ⁣
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If you already rock the loving yourself game then keep going. So proud of you. ⁣
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If you struggle in this department then I encourage you to keep learning, healing and growing. I haven’t mastered it yet but I can say that I have come so freaking far over the years and I’m never willing to stop. ⁣
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My goal, my mission and my biggest message to others is if you do anything, LEARN TO LOVE YOU. You are a gift to this world. There is only one of you. You are enough. ⁣
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My weakness became my biggest message and I know I was given this role for a reason. ⁣
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So today, be gentle with yourself and know that with each step you take you can get closer to finding the beauty within your soul. Your light is more then you realize. YOU are more then you even know.

Choose hope ✨❤️

You know more then you think you do! ⁣
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Do you ever find yourself wondering what to do? What’s next? Who am I? Where am I supposed to be going in this life? ⁣
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So, we ask everyone else. We search and search for someone else’s answer. We are so quick to take their advice and when that doesn’t work we search for someone else’s answer. ⁣
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BUT… ⁣
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Often, WE know the answer. ⁣
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WE just need to get quiet enough. ⁣
WE just need to slow down. ⁣
WE just need to get intentional with what we want. ⁣
WE just need to trust ourselves enough to know our voice is wisdom. ⁣
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WE have all our own answers. ⁣
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WE know what our soul truly wants. ⁣
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So today this is a reminder to listen to yourself and stop always looking outwards for the answer. ⁣
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It’s in you. ⁣
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You are your answer! ⁣
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Allow yourself to be guided to your answer by the things that speak to you. The things that resonate with you. The things you continue to gravitate towards. The people you find helpful and inspiring often have a message BUT you are the actual answer. You know more then you think you do!!! ⁣
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