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How Growing Lavender Has Become One of the Most Healing Parts of Our Journey

How Growing Lavender Has Become One of the Most Healing Parts of Our Journey

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Pour Slow: Learning to Film the Process (Even When the Art Doesn’t Show Up)

There is something wildly humbling about watching yourself try to learn something new. Not just learning it — but recording it. When I first started sharing my journey from bartender to barista, I thought the hardest part would be dialing in espresso or steaming milk just right. I was wrong. The hardest part was hitting record. Because once you record it, you see everything. You see the…

Pour Slow: Learning to Film the Process (Even When the Art Doesn’t Show Up)

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The Ultimate Nursing School Survival Guide: 5 Cheat Sheets Every Nursing Student Needs

Nursing school is one of the most rewarding journeys you can take—but let’s be honest, it can also be one of the most overwhelming. Between lectures, clinical rotations, simulation labs, care plans, medication calculations, exams, and preparing for the NCLEX®, it often feels like you’re expected to memorize an entire medical textbook overnight. Most students quickly realize that success isn’t…

The Ultimate Nursing School Survival Guide: 5 Cheat Sheets Every Nursing Student Needs

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Day 6: When You Have Just Enough Beans and Barley Enough Milk

Day 6: When You Have Just Enough Beans and Barley Enough Milk

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Day 5: Proof in the Pour — When Practice Finally Shows Up

Day 5: Proof in the Pour — When Practice Finally Shows Up

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Confessions of a Dirty Espresso Machine: How Cleaning My Barista Express Saved My Coffee (and My Pride)

Confessions of a Dirty Espresso Machine: How Cleaning My Barista Express Saved My Coffee (and My Pride)

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Day 4: Latte to Learn: When the Espresso Dribbles but the Joy Overflows

Day 4: Latte to Learn: When the Espresso Dribbles but the Joy Overflows

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Day 3 of Making Lattes: Slowing Down with Wonderstate Heartstrings Espresso

Day 3 of Making Lattes: Slowing Down with Wonderstate Heartstrings Espresso

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Pour Decisions: Learning Latte Art While Filming Myself

Day 2: Pour Decisions: Learning Latte Art While Filming Myself

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Download Your Free Printable Journal Planner Today

I Got My Printed Journal Planner — And I Couldn’t Be Happier! Seeing my year printed makes everything feel real. This reflective planner became proof that I stayed, I felt, and I grew — and I hope it does the same for you. One of the most meaningful moments of my year so far? Holding my printed journal planner in my hands. After spending months customizing, editing, writing, and creating in…

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Learning Latte Art at Home: Our Real-Life Cappuccino Journey (The Good, The Bad, and the Frothy)

Learning Latte Art at Home: Our Real-Life Cappuccino Journey (The Good, The Bad, and the Frothy)

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The Tidy House Reset: A Soft-Life Cleaning System That Actually Works

If you’ve ever looked around your home and thought, “Why does it feel like it gets messy five minutes after I clean?” — you are not alone. Photo by Viktoria Alipatova on Pexels.com Between pets, work, coffee rituals, and the million tiny things that fill a day, traditional cleaning schedules feel overwhelming and unrealistic. That’s why I created The Tidy House Reset — a gentle, flexible,…

The Tidy House Reset: A Soft-Life Cleaning System That Actually Works

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How I Turned Journaling Into a Planner That Helped Me Survive a Hard Year

Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio on Pexels.com For years, I struggled to find a planner that actually worked for me. Not just something pretty to look at or structured enough to tell me where to be and when—but something that held space for real life. The messy thoughts. The hard weeks. The moments where simply getting out of bed deserved to be written down and acknowledged. So I stopped trying…

How I Turned Journaling Into a Planner That Helped Me Survive a Hard Year

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Nursing School Is Hard — You Don’t Have to Do It Alone

Nursing school is intimidating, difficult, and overwhelming — and if you’re feeling that way, you are not weak. You are normal. Whether you’re a nursing student or a medical assistant trying to get to the next level, this journey is demanding in ways that most people don’t fully understand. The volume of information, the pressure of exams, clinical expectations, and constant self-doubt can make…

Nursing School Is Hard — You Don’t Have to Do It Alone

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Losing a parent is heartbreaking—but handling their estate without a will adds layers of confusion and stress. In this heartfelt guide, I share what I’ve learned navigating Colorado’s probate process as my father’s personal representative: from appointing yourself legally, to managing titled assets, to setting boundaries and honoring grief along the way. This isn’t about “getting over it”—it’s about moving through it with patience, compassion, and understanding.

Grieving and Handling Probate: A Personal Guide

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Embracing Failure: The Path to Personal Growth

“Failure reveals its true value only when we take the time to learn what it’s teaching us.” Failure is one of those things most of us try to avoid at all costs. We’re taught from a young age that success is the goal and failure is the enemy—that failing means we’ve fallen short, missed the mark, or let someone down. But what if that’s not the full story? What if failure isn’t a dead end but…

Embracing Failure: The Path to Personal Growth

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During nursing school — and especially through the pandemic — I learned that my struggle to set boundaries wasn’t just personal, it was survival. I realized that if I kept saying yes to everything, I’d lose myself completely. This is the story of how I learned to value my own limits, why boundaries matter in caregiving, and how choosing a different path helped me stay whole.

Caring Without Losing Yourself: Boundaries, Burnout, and the Courage to Change Paths