Bold Opinion

This week at the start of our team meeting we checked in about everything that we've been watching - from the new Little Mermaid movie to the series finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to the recently released trailer for The Color Purple. What began as an innocent discussion escalated

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The Best Advice

Graduation season is upon us, and even though we aren't technically graduating, a good commencement speech has the ability to offer us some of the best advice about courage, identity, purpose, and the meaning of life. And why is it that almost every graduation ceremony ever featured on a show

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Consider This

Consider this your invitation to take a deep breath. Or to stare at your screen or window for just a few minutes. To put off the thing for a few more days. Or to tackle it immediately. Consider this a message of do what your body is telling you to

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Raising Herself

Who raised you? Maybe (if you're like us) it was a mixture. Part your family, your cousins and aunties and best friends, plus a dash of Claire Huxtable, Judy Blume, and every after-school special. Maybe it was LeVar Burton, Mister Rogers, the Golden Girls and Mrs. Winslow.  And we can't

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Come What May

Everyone we know seems to be going through some sort of transition - maybe as simple as wrapping up another school year or as complex as moving across the country or ending a marriage. But real significant things are changing and with that, a sense of chaos is often added.

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Pretty

What makes you feel pretty? Is it an outfit? An idea? The way your arm feels against a sheet? The way your lips leave a smudge on a glass with your favorite shade of lipstick? Is it when you are standing tall or curled up in a couch with a

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Quit Something

When in your life have you quit something? It doesn’t have to be big - like a relationship or a job - it could be smaller, like ballet when you were 5 or a book you weren’t enjoying or trying to go to bed earlier (everyone knows night

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What If?

Are you more of an optimist, the glass is half-full type or more of a pessimist, a when life gives you lemons you've got lemons type? A few months ago, a friend started asking the question "what if it all works out?" and we realized nearly every time "what if"

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Spring Break

If your social media feeds are anything like ours, you know that many people are off spring breaking this week. What if you need some spring repair, some spring healing, some spring in your step but getting away is hard? Here's 3 ideas to spring you forward: Download a sound

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Look At You

Look at you. Look at how far you've grown. Remember when adults used to come up with their hands at the top of your head, commenting on how much taller you got since the last time they saw you? Imagine us with our hands raised, saying look at you. Look

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Little You

Is it just us or does it feel like when folks are talking about working with their therapist or reflecting upon old memories they often mention how they are tapping into their "inner child?" What their inner child needed and didn't get, or what their inner child would say to

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Celebrate Good Times

One thing we can all be certain of -- besides death (which we are not talking about) or taxes (Crap! Gotta get on that) -- is birthdays. About as reliably as things can be, Birthdays come on time. We can all depend on them. But how we celebrate them can

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The Future is Female

It's Women's History Month and there is much to celebrate- the political warriors, the fashion icons, the creative inventors, the Nobel Prize winners, the CEOs, the Founders- and YOU. Yes, you. The teachers and social workers and assistants and nurses and coordinators and lawyers and doctors and writers. Yes you,

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Holla If You Hear Me

This week Austin is recording the audio for I'm Still Here (Adapted for Young Readers): Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me. And a couple of months back Jenny recorded her audiobook version of Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Option: One Woman's Journey into Everyday Antiracism. There's

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Tossing Beads

Our timelines are filling up with colorful photos from Mardi Gras. There are feathers and beads and glitter and parades and music and families- it’s amazing. Of course there is also the silly stereotype of flashing people for beads, which had us giggling at the idea that we- far

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Faux Spring

Here in the Midwest, where most of our team lives, we have entered the season called faux spring. It is the moment when snow has melted. We hear birds chirping outside of our windows. The temperature dips its toe into the fifties. We see a bright blue sky that has

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Space for Magic

A couple weeks ago, Austin had the honor of attending the Sundance Film Festival for a couple days. Her trip was sponsored by a lovely group of people who are just as passionate as we are about representation in media. The group was kind enough to host a brunch and

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Give Me A Break

Did you have a grandparent who was always talking about taking her "nerve pills"? It is only in our assent into adulthood that it has dawned on us that Granny was taking anti-anxiety meds (because we was getting on her nerves- lol). And you know what, we appreciate this honest

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Circling Back

Tis the season of email exchanges that begin with "circling back". We set new meetings, start new projects, or pick up where we took a break. We create new goals, decorate vision boards and reassess our passions, vocations, calling. In the midst of all the circling back- we hope you

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Stay Weird

We are all so weird. In our last two team meetings the following happened: finger guns were aimed, "cheerio" was used as a greeting, purple hair made an appearance, few bras were worn, and Kenny Loggins was referenced on more than one occassion. This is all fairly normal for our

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You're Doing Great

This portion of January is always a little awkward isn't it? We have opened all the presents, partaken of all the traditions, toasted in the New Year, sent the kiddos back to school, and we are contemplating when we will get around to taking down lights or trees or decorations.

Preparing for Joy

Flip through a journal at the end of the year, and you may find the difficult moments of your year may receive more pages than the good. But Herself wants to support all the beauty in your life with a little hack. This year Austin started keeping a different kind

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Planning Ahead

There is something so hopeful about planning. It requires a certain optimism, a deep belief that magic is still possible for you. Whether you plan in a fancy notebook, a scrap of paper, a vision board or a journal- we hope that you feel the infusion of life-giving hope that

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The Only Email Not Selling Anything for the Holiday

All we want for you is delight. Because somewhere along the road, as we grow older we become the keepers of the Holidays instead of the participants. We are the gift-givers, gatekeepers, wranglers, and wardens. This week, even if it's only for a moment, grab hold of a little wonder,

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Let's Talk About Sex, Baby

Aww, friend, we've made it to the final episode of Full Reset, season one. And you better believe, we saved the best for last! We round off the season with a discussion encompassing the full monty around sex, from the messages we received from purity culture to the pure nonsense.