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    February Update: Just Between Us Article Published & Upcoming Giveaway!

    February is often when I start to experience the winter blues. Anyone else? I try to get outside when I can, stay active, and be in community, but it’s still hard to keep an upbeat attitude when it’s been so dark and cold for so long. I’ve found myself crawling into bed at eight o’clock...
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    Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction & Generational Trauma with Gina Birkemeier

    Last year during our family’s spring break vacation, I decided I was finally going to break open a book I had on my “must read” list for far too long. While it wasn’t your typical go-to vacation-read, I was excited to dive into Gina Birkemeier’s book, Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited...
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    Is Writing Painful?

    Recently, I met with a couple of writing friends to catch up and pray over one another’s work. As we sat around a table, sipping our hot beverages, and breaking off bits of scones and breakfast sandwiches- enjoying every bite, we shared about our current projects. As we listened and shared, one...
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    Attracting & Keeping Healthy Friendships: What Qualities Make a Good Friend?

    Do you remember making friends at six years old? Maybe you easily met someone on the monkey bars, or you coordinated a game of tag, or you started up a conversation with your soccer teammate that blossomed into a friendship. For many of us, making and establishing friends seemed easier then. At...
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    The Busyness Lie & Proper Rest

    How is your summer going? Busy? As my pastor noted this past Sunday, it doesn’t matter what stage of life you’re in- whether you’re a teenager working this summer, a parent taking care of young children, a working adult, a retiree volunteering in your community, or someone care-giving for a...
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    Kitchen Design Software for Adding an Outdoor Kitchen

    Adding an outdoor kitchen to an existing patio or deck can be an exciting process. Unfortunately, it can also be overwhelming and frustrating. Many online sites give ideas and layout options to help homeowners plan, and some companies have even developed online design software to help owners...
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    Easy Weeknight Duck Recipes: Quick and Delicious Meals

    Cooking duck at home might seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. With the right recipes and techniques, you can prepare delicious duck dishes even on busy weeknights. Duck is healthy, rich in flavor and pairs well with a variety of ingredients, making it a versatile choice for quick and...
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    Here’s How You Can Prepare the Perfect Sushi at Home

    Sushi, a beloved Japanese cuisine known for its variety and artful presentation, has gained immense popularity worldwide. Making sushi at home can transform your kitchen into a creative workshop, where each roll is a piece of art, and every ingredient plays a pivotal role. From selecting the...
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    Instant Pot Cauliflower and Broccoli Soup

    Let me start by saying a few things. No, I do not intend on suddenly becoming a food blogger and I am not a chef. I do however enjoy cooking and I love to share good things! I gave my wife an Instant Pot for Christmas. Learning to use it was, shall we say, fodder for a very funny post that I...
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    Turning Family Dinners Into a Family Effort: Meals Your Kids Can Help Cook

    Cooking with your kids can be very beneficial no matter how old they are. It will allow you all to spend some bonding time together, and it will give your kids the opportunity to learn a few simple meals that they can make on their own when they are older. You can turn family dinners into a...
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    Anti-Aging Breakfast Superheroes

    I don’t know about you, but anything that claims to be anti-aging grabs my attention pretty quickly, but an anti-aging breakfast? What does that even mean? Well for starters, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Did your mom tell you that as a kid? Well she wasn’t wrong, but she...
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    Fresh Veggie Cornmeal Fritters

    Sometimes on a Sunday, before I do my grocery shopping for the upcoming week, I pull all the veggies I didn’t get around to using during the previous week and make something — sometimes a pot of minestrone or other vegetable-based soup, other times a big sheet pan of roasted random veggies. But...
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    How a Carnivore Can Love a Plant-Based Diet

    It feels weirdly hypocritical to write about anything ‘plant-based’ for a couple of reasons: 1. As a kid, the closest I came to a vegetable were french fries. Later, as a wannabe bodybuilder in my twenties, I ate more meat in a typical day than Kobayashi. I made butchers wealthy, and buffet...
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    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bacon Jam

    Perhaps the most versatile condiment out there is one that does not come to mind at first – bacon jam. This pork-based relish can be made into a variety of flavors and used in a plethora of recipes. Bacon jam on toast with egg What Is It? Bacon jam is a relish that involves slow cooking...
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    Clean-out-the-fridge-frittata

    I love to be alone in my kitchen, fridge full of stuff, with time to create. No pressure of time or expectations. This fine morning, I’m listening to my current favorite podcast, Smartless, and thinking about the fact that my vegetable drawer is full of fresh produce and in 24 hours I’m leaving...
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    3 Ways To Transform Your Relationship With Achievement

    If you’re a goal-setting, goal-smashing kind of gal, chances are you’ve got a fat stack of achievements under your belt, wondering why you still don’t feel the way you thought you would. Hiiii, welcome! I used to be the president of the “I’ll be happy once X happens” club!! In this article...
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    How To Start Becoming An Offline Girl (Especially If You’re Chronically Online)

    The offline girl knows what she wants. She wants slower mornings. The kind where your phone stays in another room, replaced by candlelight and the sound of a real pen on paper. She wants errands that feel like rituals like walking to the local bakery, chatting with the barista, carrying home...
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    Things I’m Letting Go Of To Build A Life And Business I’m Actually Obsessed With

    For a long time, I believed there was a right way to build a business. That if I wasn’t hustling hard enough, waking up at 5 a.m., and sacrificing my weekends, I must not want it bad enough. I looked around at the women I admired—those running multi-million-dollar brands, scaling fast, and...
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    6 Reasons I Almost Didn’t Hit Publish on My Online Magazine

    There were so many reasons I could’ve talked myself out of starting Life Goals Mag nearly 10 years ago. I didn’t have the “right” experience. I wasn’t sure if I had anything worthwhile to say. I didn’t feel like a leader, a writer, or someone who could build a real brand. But I started anyway...
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    30 Inspiring Examples of What Success on Your Terms Can Look Like

    We’ve all heard the phrase “live life on your own terms.” It sounds aspirational. Empowering. Like something we should want. But if you’ve ever wondered what that actually looks like in real life, beyond the Instagram quotes and Pinterest boards, you’re not alone. Living life on your own...
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