Journey with Jess

What kind of mental load are you carrying? Are you able to share and release any of it? Can you release some of the burden and free your body and mind a little more? Let’s explore some ideas about what the mental load is and how we may be able to process and release some of the burden.

Sometimes we can get stuck. Especially when we want things to turn out a certain way, sound a certain way, look a certain way. It’s hard for us if we are comparing ourselves to others and seeing what we assume is perfection, and we don’t feel like our lives are perfect. Here is some encouragement to help us. Remember, sometimes it’s better to be done, then to be perfect.

How’s it going? I mean, really? Many people find themselves struggling in January. Struggling to keep up with the goals they had set, and the pace of this life. What if we celebrate where we are at and allow ourselves space to celebrate the moments that we do incorporate our intentional goals? Here is some encouragement to do just that.

Do you like to find a word of the year? Does that encourage you to have some thing to follow? Here are some ideas about choosing a word for the year and how to keep the word present in your every day life so that you can incorporate it in all that you do.

What’s been holding you back? What’s the dialogue in your head that keeps circling back with regret? That’s where we need to start. You can break old patterns and create new ones.

Christmas is behind us and the end of the year is here. Are you thinking about how you are going to enter 2024? Here are some of my thoughts.

Sometimes we self-sabotage our good efforts through resistance. Learning what emotions are getting activated and what is getting in our way helps us to find breakthrough.

Sometimes, when we’re under stress, it becomes easy to let go of the promises we have made to ourselves. When we learn to become more present, we can stay in the moment and keep our promises to ourselves, follow through with caring for ourselves, well, and complete the tasks in front of us. Here’s a little snippet about me, completing my first manuscript and how I had to work at being more present...

There are so many benefits to walking. In every pillar of our health, we can add wellness. By adding walking, we work to stress and anxiety, boost our immune systems, improve our sleep patterns and more. I hope this will encourage you to walk more! Enjoy.

Sometimes we hold on to emotions in our bodies. That can create additional burdens in our physical bodies. It’s important for us to learn how to process emotions properly, through talking, journaling, exercise. There are so many ways to move through emotions rather than just storing them. I hope you are encouraged as you listen!

At the end of a busy summer, I am seeking structure. Structure for the coming school year, structure for our household, structure for our overall wellness. What structures do you need to let go of, and what new rhythms do you need to find?

How can we take a good look at our own lives and see when something is camouflaging itself. It may seem small and okay at first and could become bigger and more destructive. Let’s pause and look closely.

There are many things worth fighting for. And there are many things not worth fighting for. Hope is something I believe we should always fight for and pursue, contend for and wrestle through. We need hope in our life. We need hope in all manner of circumstances. I hope you will be encouraged to fight for hope in your life.

In this busy life sometimes it’s hard to remain in the moment. How can we practice being in the moment? It may be pausing to do some thing specific with a person in your household, or taking a walk and taking in creation all around you. That may be just being present in the fullness of the day. Take it all on. Allow yourself to feel it, be present and attentive. Be fully in the moment.

What does it really mean to cultivate grace in our lives? Can we freely offer grace to ourselves and others? Can we be spontaneous with grace? Do we offer grace with limits? Let’s keep growing in grace as an overarching theme in our lives.

Life long learning is the work of gaining information, observing ourselves, examining areas in which we see a need for growth. Then we take all of that and create space to take action and implement the right tools for that growth to occur.

Our emotional health is vital to great relationships, to our overall health and wellness. Feeling anxious? Facing avoidant behaviors? Your brain is listening to you! How do we process through difficult emotions, so that we don’t get stuck and shrink our ability to be well? Listen here for a few thoughts on emotional processing,

Recently someone asked me why I participate in health and wellness challenges, rather than just keeping the habits. In this episode I discuss some reasons for doing challenges and learning new habits to incorporate them into life and overall wellness.

We are complex, dynamic beings. Full of emotions. Full of responses, and reactions. And sometimes we just need to make space to acknowledge how we are feeling in our world, and decide how we want to show up. If we are in a constant state of reaction, instead of response, we might not show up the way we want to. Make time to process your feelings, all of them. It’s good work.

Sometimes we get stuck in the Munding. We may get stuck in the gloom. And sometimes we need to interrupt our own thoughts about these things so that we can move forward. Here’s a few ideas about how to get through the Munding days and energize ourselves.

Gratitude and struggle coexist. How do we celebrate what we are grateful for, as we honor the things that are hard? Can we embrace gratitude and struggle, and recognize that there will be both simultaneously in this life.

Sometimes we find ourselves hiding our real emotions, or our authentic moments because we feel like we need to show up perfect. And maybe we just need to stop hiding out and show up authentically.

Facing fears and disappointments, learning to contend for our healing and wellness. We can do these hard things and push into the harder times while we learn and grow and change for the better.

How well are you taking care of all the parts of you? Are you trying to put out to others from an empty pitcher? Here are some thoughts on caring for our whole selves and not getting stuck.

Most people say that they want better communication in their relationships. And sometimes we might just need a little help with where to get started, what words to begin with, thinking about our tone and timing. Here’s a quick podcast to get you thinking about better communication with the people you love.