Finding the Floor - A thoughtful approach to midlife motherhood and what comes next.

Send us Fan Mail “What we do is nothing but a drop in the ocean. But if we didn’t do it, the ocean would be one drop less.”    Celebrate with me as I have now reached episode 50!!!  As part of a celebration I share how this one principle of small, simple steps has helped me be able to bring this podcast to life.  I share how I have been training for a half marathon with a simple training program t...

Send us Fan Mail  “Our brain likes to make up stories, especially when we don’t have all the facts.”  How many times have you thought that someone was mad at you or they didn't like you and it turned out not to be true?  Stormy first drafts or SFDs are stories our brains tell us that are not necessarily true, such as so and so does not like me.  In this episode,  I will  explain a little more...

Send us Fan Mail “I am a spiritual being having a human experience.”   I am getting a bit philosophical as I explore this idea of we are not our bodies or our minds or our job, ect.  I get into how we can learn to drop labels we give ourselves and see ourselves as the dynamic individuals that we are. I share how we are having a mortal experience but that we are so much more than all of it.  I refe...

Send us Fan Mail “Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.”  In this episode I am doing another book review and recommendation on The Power of Habits, Why we do what we do in life and in business by Charles Duhigg.  This book has so many fascinating stories and goes very in depth into habit creation and also how we can learn to change our habi...

Send us Fan Mail “Because of Him all men will be raised from the grave.”    Happy Good Friday.  Today I take some time to contemplate what Easter really means and how we truly don’t understand all the things that Jesus Christ has done for us.  Spending a study abroad in Jerusalem 25 years ago, I share a few experiences that really have helped my belief and testimony of Jesus Christ.  I hope you ca...

Send us Fan Mail “Bear with us, while we think.”   I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with keeping up with all the things I am learning and sharing. And there were some things I was forgetting to do.  I felt like I needed a little more time to process and think.  In the episode I share what I did to get through the overwhelm.  Things like writing down my thoughts and making a plan helped me to get th...

Send us Fan Mail “Remember the worth of your soul is great.”   In this final episode in the self love series,  I share some of my  thoughts of all of the things I have learned and then tried to apply throughout this self love series.  I share how my decluttering goal is going, my struggles with comparisons, my attempt at using the law of attraction,  a pleasant surprise from one particular skill I...

Send us Fan Mail “ The less you are attached to compliments, the less you will also be attached to criticism.”  The 5th of the self love series; that what other people think of me is none of my business.  It is easier said than done, but in the podcast I share a few tips that I learned and experienced to help as we learn to overcome this tendency to worry about what other people might be thinking...

Send us Fan Mail “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities”   Have you ever thought to rejoice in your weakness?  In this episode we are going to explore this idea of making peace with our weaknesses or flaws.  Ultimately they are there to help us to be humble and rely more about God.    I have 6 different ways we can learn to be ok with our weaknesses and slowly work on them so...

Send us Fan Mail "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe."  This is the 3rd part of my exploration and research into what it means to have self-love.  I had a question about what it means to put positive energy out there and what I found was the Law of Attraction. This idea that our thoughts can give off and attract energy.  Th...

Send us Fan Mail  “Your contest is not with him but with yourself.”   In part two of the Self-love series I am going to talk about how to stop comparisons or even better how to let comparisons we make have less effect on us.  I share why comparisons are not helpful for us and then suggest 5 things we can do to help us become more aware of this very natural tendency to compare ourselves to others. ...

Send us Fan Mail “Self-love is dynamic; it grows through actions that mature us.”  For the rest of the month of February I am going to explore this idea of self love.  In this episode I talk about developing more self - love and trust through keeping commitments we make to ourselves.  I share some ideas on ways we can take small steps and really decide what we want, not what we think we should be...

Send us Fan Mail “I miss my mom’s encouragement to do significant and impactful things.”   Since my Mom’s birthday is coming up I am indulging a bit and sharing 10 things that I miss (as well as some of my family too) about my mom.  Things like, going on walks or going shopping to having her come and clean my house.  It is funny the things I miss and today I appreciate a lot of the things she did...

Send us Fan Mail “Your grades absolutely don’t define you.”   Reflecting back on my education, I talk this week about my grades and how one certain grade started to define me.  The dreaded B+.  I share stories of grades I remember and that have stuck with me even now some over 30+ years ago.  I confess about  failing algebra tests and not passing  AP exams and still being able to be happy.  But wh...

Send us Fan Mail “You can’t measure your worth by someone else’s results.  That is powerless.  What my kids ultimately choose is really out of my control.”  What does it mean to be a good mom?  It is a question many moms and parents ask all the time myself included.  In this episode I share some thoughts and new revelations I have learned about how you even measure that idea.  I also tell some sto...

Send us Fan Mail “LL my daughter would say, it's a life lesson.”   This week I share some of my favorite things I have learned this year because of doing this podcast.  From my favorite, most of helpful thing of keeping a gratitude journal to my most surprising thing of learning what makes things cool.  A little look back on this past year's life lessons.  Thank you new and returning lis...

Send us Fan Mail This is a bonus episode.  Camille was asked to be a guest on A Light in the Darkness podcast just before Thanksgiving and this part is from that episode.  In it Camille shares how she was able to see the blessing and find things to be grateful for during her mom's battle with cancer.  The full episode can be found at https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-axtia-f29808   or search for...

Send us Fan Mail ”Your job is not to fix their problems that is Jesus'. Your job is to breath hope into the situation so that they can solve their own problems.”  In a follow up to episode 33, Camille continues to find ways to show more compassion for her family and to help them do the same.  Learning the 5th myths of helping others really helped Camille to rethink how she helps her children...

Send us Fan Mail “What would it be like if we all allowed her to be grumpy?”  That thought, spurred a search for ways for Camille to help her  family develop a little more compassion for each other. As a first step, she shares a few ideas about the brain from a Jody Moore coaching family home evening lesson.  The lesson talks about 3 main  functions of the brain. Camille tells about teaching that...

Send us Fan Mail “That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no never, I’ll never forsake.”  Camille had the opportunity to talk with Rebecca Vineyard who is a direct descendant of  Amanda Barnes Smith (see also episode 17) Rebecca shares what it was like having an ancestor who had such a miraculous story and how that story and the faith of Amanda helped her family and her ow...

Send us Fan Mail “Receiving is actually harder to do than giving.” Camille shares in this episode how their kids have been not so gracious receivers, to put it nicely.  She mentions a game she tried with her kids  to help them practice being more grateful no matter what gift they get.   After hearing a talk about being a good receiver she shares how she has really tried to examine how she receives...

Send us Fan Mail “Ultimately, the goal here is to have inner peace.”   In the part 2 of the belief window,  Camille shares how to apply the ideas from the Reality Model and learn to find the incorrect principles that are on your belief window.  Camille shares a surprising thought that helped her with one pain point in her life. And she goes through her path to finding a new belief (or actually a f...

Send us Fan Mail “I am not telling you what you need to have on your belief window I am just telling you that you have one.”  Camille has become a little obsessed with this idea of a belief window.  In the episode she shares the reality model and that we all have beliefs on our belief window that drives our behaviors.  From the a talk she heard by Hyrum W. Smith and then also from his book You Are...

Send us Fan Mail “Are you sure you want to take the bus on your first day of school?”  Camille shares in this episode how nervous she was to send her first child to school on a bus.  She also shares how their family has been doing well in what the state of Ohio deemed a low performing or “failing school district.”  She confesses a few of her assumptions and fears  before she even sent her oldest t...

Send us Fan Mail “Expectation Hangovers is not about changing your reality, but about changing your reaction and responses to it so that true transformation occurs.”  In the final series of Expectation Camille talks about how you can deal with what is called an Expectation Hangover.  She shares info learned from the Book Expectation Hangover written by Christine Hassler.  Hassler’s book has great...