The Bog of Mind: Self Help + Problem Solving

God gives me incredible peace because I spend time in His Word and in prayer every day. Knowing that He guides my every step is a huge comfort and reassurance when I don't know what's next in my life. However, sometimes I sit down and cannot focus my thoughts. I can barely even pray! My mind is overactive and I am distracted constantly. So frustrating - what to do?? Don't write today o...

Enjoy this blurb about hair!! I actually have a go-to style for when a migraine is coming on, or just when I don't feel well and will be in bed a lot. This style is also fantastic for a quick vacay! Just prep it and get on the road! I get asked about my waves when I wear my hair this way. It's pretty simple with one basic product and one BIG no-no. Waves for days!

Do you need a better daily plan? Is life just happening to you over and over again and every morning you are just not prepared?? Well, try a few of these things out and see what happens. They are working for me so that's testimonial #1! Let's have a GREAT day!

Guess what genre I'm into these days! Ghost stories! By chance I picked up a paperback and I'm hooked. Let me tell you all about the book I snagged around Halloween and all the others I've got lined up next!

I put my ebay sales on a brief hold while we moved, but we are back up and running and I have more tips to share! Sometimes you have to take a tough loss and just appreciate the information you now have and the lesson you learned! It's okay! Negative feedback isn't the end! (Thank you, unreasonable buyer!!) And sometimes you take a hit because the item just didn't make the trip intact....

My Bible reading and prayer time has evolved over the years, and I think it is so important to make that time with God happen even through life's various stages. Let me tell you about a few things that really got me in the habit several years back and what my daily routine looks like right now. I wanted to have a closer relationship with God as a teenager, but struggled to discipline myself ab...

This episode is all about moving out of our house, from getting recommendations from a professional about what our home needed to be market-ready, to finding (and dealing with) contractors, to getting ALL. THAT. STUFF. out of our house and garage without losing all our minds.

I'm back after a lengthy hiatus and am finally telling the story of how we decided it was time to move! What a crazy year from start to finish. Things started happening in January 2022 as we talked about adding onto our house. In December of 2022 we were moving to the next county. It's a pretty cool story, and every time I think the transition was hard and we are still settling, I look at...

This is the final take on my mental breakthrough while playing soccer this summer. But it's not just about soccer... a solution this effective could be applied more broadly and I am working on that for myself. After a recap on what's been going on I will also tell you what else I have seen that is very unhelpful to me when I am trying to show confidence and focus. It is all becoming very clear wha...

Look at me getting caught up and giving you all these ideas for dinners now that school has started! This is just what you need. 

Oops - I'm not doing my quick and easy menu list in this episode, followed by the details. I'm just dumping it all at once! Can I do that? I guess I can - it's my podcast. Anyway, here's all the eats from June 2022.

Yes, I still cook. Yes, I still record it. And yes, I still (eventually) publish it. I still can't believe that I took the time to cook this many times during the final full month of school. Enjoy!

Where do you write that important thought down that would be useful motivation later? I put it all on my phone calendar and then set it to alert me every month. Listen along as I read off all those things right off the calendar, including all things motivational, dinner ideas, my perception of my circumstances, and little tips on how to get the mundane stuff done.

Here's a short episode that is all about my latest household strategy! This is my plan to keep me from getting tunnel vision on laundry and excluding everyone and everything else from my view during the day. I need variety in my life and a plan to help me check all those boxes.

I can't believe it, but I'm about to be all by myself with all four kids in school! Do I have a plan? Yes I do! I will read off the list and definitely keep you posted in future episodes on how the plan is actually going. Haha.

It's bad enough when your mind pummels you all day long with too many thoughts that are completely unproductive, but what if they are still there when you are trying to fall asleep? Sometimes it takes a little more that melatonin. Here's what I normally do.

Have you been thinking about ebay? We all have stuff we no longer want to hold onto that is worth money. Oh, this isn't an ad. I just happen to be diving back into online sales and am learning so much already. This episode is how I got started, why I stopped, and then when and why I started up again.

Let me tell you about the HUGE difference in my performance on the soccer field that came to be all because of a change I made in my head. I still have to consciously make this change when I start to revert back to old habits, but my oh my is it nice to have this solution in my back pocket. It makes me wonder what else can be improved if I get my head in the game, so to speak. That's another episo...

How did I get to the point that the once highlight of my year was becoming my demise??? I used to think about this soccer league year-round with excitement and halfway through this summer season I started thinking I may be done with it forever. How does that happen? Am I really too old? What is causing this anxiety and terrible fatigue on the field? Am I fueling incorrectly? Maybe it's because I h...

Back in the spring when we were zeroing in on finances and figuring some things out, I wondered how I could cut back a little bit on the grocery bill. Why had I been spending more? What had changed? I had to backtrack mentally through some things that had been affecting our schedule and I finally got to the bottom of it.

This is so key. The single thing that is changing my life right now is being in God's Word consistently. I have a goal to read through in a year (for the third time) but the more I read the more I realize it is not enough. Please listen to this episode if you know God's Word is important but are struggling to be consistent.

So there I was, back from a nice trip to the lake with my family, sore in a good way from all the great exercise, thinking about all the memories we made and WHY I WASN'T A BETTER PERSON in so many ways. I'm not sure why I have to destroy good things sometimes with my mind, but frankly it happens, and it happens regularly. So here are a few thoughts on that as I was realizing what was happening.

We took a trip with family to the lake this summer and I put a lot of thought into preparing for the trip... as in mental prep. Attitude can make or break any event, and a mother's attitude can make or break it for the family, so I wanted to have right expectations and think it all through. Sound like too much? Unnecessary? Maybe my hormones were foreseeing issues and I was just getting in the rig...

Looking back on this past spring when I coached volleyball, I am just amazed. Amazed at how much fun it was, how much I dearly love the sport though I have always looked down on it in a way because it was the only sport offered for girls at my private school and I was always wanting to be on the soccer field. The boys were so lucky! Anyway, what a great experience to continue volunteer coaching in...

Stop and think about what's good about it all. What does this challenge bring along with it that ultimately is a benefit to you? What positives would not exist without the changes you are experiencing? It sure it a lot easier to manage "too many things" when you know why they are all good and positive experiences.