Spiritual Doubts

Is seeing really believing?

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the editorial team for Living Faith as a regular contributor. You can subscribe to the devotional here. I’m sharing my reflection for May 24, 2022 below. Embracing my faith continues to be a real struggle as of late, but thankfully I’m innately a stubborn person so that meansRead the whole post >>

Be Jesus’ Skin

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta said, “I am God’s pencil, a tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes.” We are all God’s pencils no matter how He chooses to use our gifts and our lives to carry out His will. There have been too many times in my life when I haveRead the whole post >>

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.