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2.53: Q&A With Kate
This is my last blog post of 2019! To celebrate the occasion, I decided to do a Q&A. I invited questions around all things productivity, personal development, and slow living, and I got some wonderfully insightful submissions. Below, I share my personal thoughts...
2.52: Blog News
Updates on how to access blog posts by category, title, publication date, or cover image.
2.51: Tending in 2020 + Announcing Success & Accountability Coaching
As promised in my previous Tending Letter, I owe you all some updates! Below, I’ll talk about what you can expect from the blog and newsletter, guides and workshops, and the thing I’m most excited about: my new coaching offerings! Goodbye weekly blog post. Hello...
2.50: Lessons I Learned in 2019
I discussed the importance of reflection last week, and this week I’m walking my talk by sharing the top lessons I learned from writing The Tending Year in 2019. This post is inspired by a similar post last year, aptly called “Lessons from 2018,” where I reviewed my...
2.49: Reflection Prompts for the End of the Year…and Decade!
Last December, I wrote a whole blog post called “Reflection: Whys and Hows,” where I broke down the practice of doing an end-of-year reflection and shared the journal prompts I use at the end of each year. For this year’s end-of-year reflection post, I’d like to...
2.48: Being Kinder to Myself is an Ongoing Practice
This is my last post for my Self-Esteem November, and although I don’t have a foolproof “Three Steps to Always Feel Awesome About Yourself” to show for it, I am sharing a question that I find helps guide me back to higher self-esteem when I falter: what happens when I choose to be kinder to myself?
2.47: Why and When You Should Shift From To-Do to Ta-Da
One way I’ve been able to flex my self esteem outside of my productivity is through adapting the practice of the “ta-da” list as a gesture of self-affirmation that celebrates personal successes that are rooted in my values and passions. (Post includes free download!)
2.46: How to Cope With Negative Emotions Without Spiritual Bypassing
I’ve never liked the phrase “everything happens for a reason,” but it wasn’t until recently that I had a name for what felt so icky to me: spiritual bypassing. Psychotherapist John Welword defined spiritual bypassing in his book Toward a Psychology of Awakening as the...
2.45: Work is Work Even If You Love It
The adage “love the work you do and you’ll never work a day in your life” is problematic…and pervasive.
Today’s blog post complicates the idea that work we love is somehow not labor and I model some intentional steps you can take to reconsider your own approach to your work AS work.
2.44: The Freedom of Experimentation
Framing self improvement as experimentation takes the fear, shame, or sting out of trying new things, and can allow us some much needed room to grow.