Embrace Chaos & Growth
If your life has just fallen apart and you are feeling dark and gloomy, welcome to the club! Believe it or not, it’s an opportunity to grow, learn, and rebuild a new you. I use the metaphor of furniture makeovers, rebuilding anew, accepting the mess and working with what we have in my posts. I hope it helps you see that while it may look disastrous now, leaning in can reveal the lessons we were meant to learn.
Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back, rediscover joy, and create light even in life’s toughest moments. It doesn’t happen overnight—it’s built through small, consistent actions that nurture your inner strength. Here are five effective ways to cultivate emotional resilience and regain your balance. Resilience starts with savoring life’s smallest pleasures. Make a list […]
Loss and grief can feel overwhelming, leaving you stuck in a cycle of pain and self-blame. However, small, intentional actions can help you navigate the darkness and begin to rediscover your strength and joy. Here are five things you can do to start healing and reconnecting with yourself. 1. Reconnect with Your Passions When a […]
Pain of Break up Tons have been written about the feeling of being discarded after a breakup—like you’re a piece of crap. It is all true and then some. The pain is incredible. It can feel like all the effort, hopes, and dreams you invested in the relationship have been negated. Especially when you are the one […]
Sometimes in life, we have these seemingly disjointed experiences, pieces that don’t seem to fit together. But if you zoom out and take a step back, you begin to see the pattern—the tapestry—of where everything falls into place. Just like every random piece of wood can come together to form something beautiful, so can […]
The concept of a makeover, as I’ve come to understand it, is essentially about taking something that already exists and making it useful in a completely new context. A chair becomes a stand, a ladder turns into storage, a sofa transforms into a bed, and sometimes even scrap finds new purpose. But here’s the thing: […]
I’m absolutely in love with how this corner of my garden turned out. Everything here is salvaged, a perfect blend of what I like to call kaleidoscopic crap—where a mix of discarded things comes together to create something truly special. There’s an old, weathered bench, a wasted paint can, broken branches serving as makeshift arches, […]