Growing out of your comfort zone doesn’t mean diving headfirst into every scary situation. It means taking small steps toward the things that challenge you.
Fifty Shades of….Grief?
We, as human beings, often like to land in the ‘black or white’ zone of life. Situations that fall clearly into one category or another can be comforting to us; these are somewhat known quantities and are predictable. When things are familiar and predictable, even if this involves something hard for us, we know more […]
Things I Know About Change
Believing in change is powerful, yet I often hear people share concerns that it’s not possible for them, or for a particular issue. We can feel stuck, in a place of being aware of the things that we would like to see change, and completely unsure of, or overwhelmed by, actually making those changes real. […]
Sweater as Metaphor: To Power Through or Acknowledge Mistakes?
I often dive into projects, and knitting was no exception–I decided that nothing in particular was stopping me from knitting sweaters, and went for it. I made one very plain sweater, and then knit a complicated multi-color pattern, entering my second sweater into the state fair and winning second place in the Fair Isle knitting […]