In Kristen We Brust

sometimes it all starts with a blackberry bush and sometimes it all ends with one too.  there have been so many seasons where gardening has been my anchor and this year it provided me with an amazing perspective. i am so thankful that through your pruning and growing, we get to be together. so let's roll up our sleeves and do the dirty work together. life as it should be.  xoxo  kb. 

anywhere she is an anointed space. ikwb family favorite laney crowder sat with me one sunny afternoon in nashville to talk all things heartfelt harvested and riding the flow of summer. visionary OGs and almost birthday twins makes laney matter a little extra to my heart plus she was in the delivery room with me and that's a story all itself. the laughs, the banter, the golden nuggets of wisdom are...

in the simplification there is a melting away of old and welcoming new that cannot be done ((at least in my experience)) in the sweet chaos of the school season. so calm, unplugged, sunscreen scented, watermelon stained days are the mood. cozy up with us inside the rest of our sandlot summer.   i love you too much. forever.  kb

it's like THE easiest to get stuck in day to day, the same schedule, the circumstances, the looming feelings of not enough. not enough time, not enough money, not enough muscle, the list can go on BUT what if for a moment it stopped? what if we take to time to really dream again. fall in love, dream like a kid again. lidless life is a moment in time that i have resurrected bc i miss a wide open wo...

the new decision. what if we just decide? decide to be reminded of what we love and who we are. decide to make the change because we can. yep. maybe it is that easy. we are just a decided heart away from small or big shifts. newness. the promise and hope of a future. all things we can know as truth. all things easier to see with a post easter lens.  i love you. new. old. every in between. too much...

whew. not my typical holy week tribute but some real honesty and moments of clarity. our go to "sorry we can't, it's holy week" has been replaced. this holy week feels different. abundant? yes. full? completely. being the hands and feet of Jesus in noisy, but really beautifully chaotic, times. all the goodness. all at once. all the emotions. all at once. death. promise. life again. perhaps a holy...

a note to all my warrior hearts ::: i love you. today i am holding everything. sometimes i need a moment to hold what floats to the top and detangle the rest later. tangible ways to move my tired, grieving, even joyful mind in a forward motion. slow and steady. love and protected. thanks for sitting in the sorting. i am spoiled to have you xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in. xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in. xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in.  part two coming soon cause you asked so much and i want to tell you everythingggg.  xoxo. kb. 

march roars in like a lion … and don't i know that life! pumpkin rolls out but the best "what ifs" stay. as we launch into a spring refresh in home, heart, closet, and temps let's pause for the importance of exiting our seasons like a lamb. i love you. too much. forever.  xoxo. kb.

what if… girl. what if you are actually good at it? yes that. anything you haven't tried or thought "maybe someday"… i think it's time. time for the good old college try. time for the measuring cups and the printed recipes. time for substack or the LLC. whatever has been planted in your perfectly imperfect heart deserves a shot. so well the depth of pumpkin roll seems a little frosted in compariso...

a little love note from me to you in between official seasons.    i love you too much. forever. xoxo kb

my anchored thought for the very first month of a new year.  i have always thought of january as calm. january is for sorting. for quiet. for reorganizing. for purging. physically and mentally. for clarity and peace. i stopped making my resolutions or words a must by january because i just love shifting and sitting. so if it's helpful, i'm passing along my •unrush january• method. you have the who...

… a gentle way to reflect. we don't need to tidy trees, homes, kitchens, AND new year resolutions all at once. that's unfair and you've earned way more than to be limited in all your limitlessness. let's just take some minutes during all the activities and the movement of the final two weeks of the year to note what worked and what didn't. let's give ourselves grace and room to breathe and then, s...

diving into full swing holidays and testing all our *knowing* of what we need the very most! whew! i see you. i hear you. let's talk about solutions for maybe rounding out some holiday plan sharper edges. in a plot twist of the holiday pummel, i offer that the ball is actually in your court. i also return to my favorite term "unhosting" …. oh just the sound of it feels like freedom. and just like...

in a world of lap sitting, we take a moment to talk about trusting our intuitions. an honoring of our guts from wishlists to hosting this holiday season. all the ways the world tries to noisy up the most sacred of seasons and the weird ways it wants us to sit on strangers … get in. get cozy. let's talk boundaries with santa, grandparents, creepy uncles and the way you don't have to do a thing that...

a two part series of all the women's health questions with  Nicole Stroop, APRN, FNP-BC Avisha Labban, APRN, FNP-BC  a deep dive and deep share of all the personal women's health topics with all of YOUR questions answered. the ladies of Invigorate Health answer the questions yall submitted plus bold truths over how our bodies really work and what they need. no question was off the table. their bra...

a two part series of all the women's health questions with  Nicole Stroop, APRN, FNP-BC Avisha Labban, APRN, FNP-BC  a deep dive and deep share of all the personal women's health topics with all of YOUR questions answered. the ladies of Invigorate Health answer the questions yall submitted plus bold truths over how our bodies really work and what they need. no question was off the table. their bra...

when i think of Homecoming and the work, maturity, calm, passion it takes to return to one's self, cassie sits at the top of my heart. she embodies a beautiful determination and a strong sense of knowing herself. she holds love and compassion near and dear. she is gentle, strong, loving and living life on purpose. she shares her journey in recreating. identifying valleys of wasn't working in a one...

a lot rests on our hearts and shoulders this week. election season is loud and heavy and name cally ((i am making up words bc why not)).  we are holding so much and staying hopeful. today i want you to hear that time is abundant and the pace of the world will not sweep over your steadfast knowing. we cannot be budged when we know where we are planted. i pray you feel your beautiful roots. that you...

asking yourself what you need is half the knowing in homecoming season. being able meet the need with a cold glass of water, prayer, a walk, meditation, a slow morning, a hot tea, or even a good cry… that's the momentum in the coming back to ourselves. what you do with all your "one more minutes" is the building site for a stronger, more in tune version of you. snuggle in and let's talk mornings,...

the road to yourself is composed of so many aspects of health and healing. we sit down with sara macmillan PT, DPT to talk about all things pelvic floor and the proper way to take great care of our female bodies. from breathing, timing out, walking, kegel like a jellyfish, this very much a case of "started from the bottom now we're here". sara is one of my favorite heartbeats and instrumental in m...

one more minute  a really tender and vulnerable time with you. this one is a leap of faith and of hope. it's left me with a nervous // anxious // too much kind of belly which is exactly how i know it needs to live and have breath out in the wide world. i need you to know that you are really loved. i mean that. it gets lonely out there. it gets heavy and unbearable sometimes. i was there. that plac...

freeze.  the busy girl's guide to taking a minute grandmother wisdom passed down, the ultimate non rush. the sweet time out to sort, honor, and proceed in your own pace.  sometimes the best thing we can do is nothing at all. what a precious reminder in a hurried society. to freeze. to be still. a real movement in emotional climate change. i love your warm hearts and your frozen moments of clarity....