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7 Easy Steps to Having a Great Day
Great days rarely happen just by accident. They usually require a little preplanning and work if you want to make them worth remembering. Just as the path to a healthier body is pretty…
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5 Hints to Wake Up More Energized
Are you tired of feeling sick and tired when you wake up in the morning? The alarm rings and you have the choice of two scenes: You get out of bed thinking to…
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Middle Age Woman Survival Skills from Fat Guys In The Woods host
This middle age woman learned a thing or two from survival training. Today, I want to offer a bit of encouragement about truly defining your DREAMS and then doing every little bitty thing…
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Devotion – Are you in over your head?
I grew up thinking that adults had all the answers. My parents knew the answer to all my questions. When I was in school, the teachers had all…
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You are the salt of the earth
My Monday musings had me thinking about some things in the kitchen and a simple grain of salt. You are the salt of the earth it says in the Bible. Have you ever…
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Quick Tips For Surviving Empty Nest Syndrome
Surviving the empty nest syndrome. Ask most mom’s and they have struggled with some tiny or large amount of empty nest issues once the kids fly the coop. It’s all a part of…
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Are you living life by design or in default?
A love letter the empty nest mom looking for purpose Dear Mom, The remaining frames of your days and your life… All the chapters including career, family, relationships, health, spiritual growth… The pages…
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8 Insights About Clothing, Feelings and the Connection
Do the clothes really make the person? You may rarely think about it, but what you’re wearing today might have been a direct expression of how you felt when you selected the outfit…
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My Top 5 FREE Ideas to Reduce Anxiety for Moms
There seems to be turmoil all around us. Turn on the local news and it’s nothing but bad. Turn on the National news and it’s bad. World news isn’t a bed of roses…
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Top 10 Tips For Empty Nest Moms
Here’s the top 10 tips for empty nest moms to not only survive the empty nest years, but surTHRIVE in them! Top 10 Tips for Empty Nest Moms 1. Prepare – Plan ahead…
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31 Things I’ve Learned About The Empty Nest
Feeling a little whimsical and nostalgic when writing in my journal recently, I decided to ponder some of the lessons the past years have taught me regarding the a topic I know fairly…
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Hunger and Thirst: You Will Be Satisfied – The Beatitudes
This morning’s devotion and soul search found me reading my Bible, the book of Matthew chapter 5 where the scriptures known as “The Beatitudes” are found. The Beatitudes are the BE-Attitudes I remember…
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Having Faith Makes My Tough Situations Manageable
Today’s daily devotion has me doing a soul search about Faith. Life brings some tough situations sometimes which really test my grit, gumption, fortitude and willpower. However, I am better able to cope…
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Don’t Stop, Don’t Give Up
Today is a Monday Motivational kind of day here at The Refeathered Nest. I spent the morning in meditation and reflection about goals that I have had for a while. Goals that I…
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When Subtracting Means Adding
I used the break in the rain this morning to visit the garden and do a much needed task. Thin the lettuce seedlings. It’s the part of gardening I don’t like to do,…
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Self Love – What is it and Why is it important?
Or, is it OK to love myself? What’s healthy self-love? I bet you had an immediate answer to the question, as did I. My answer is OF COURSE it is! BUT, when I…
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The 2 Ways to Live Your Life. Choice or Chance
Even at the dreaded (or LOVED) middle age years, this questions still looms in my mind. Am I relying on luck and random acts to determine life. Or am I making very conscious…
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Dream Big – Johnny Wimbrey – Live Your Dreams
[video_player type=”youtube” width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″]aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g/dj1YalN6cHdIWlFWQQ==[/video_player] Bible Verses About Motivation 1 Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the…
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Speak Life, Devotion 3
I am reminded today of a scripture found in the book of Matthew 15:11. “It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth;…
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Thy Word is Lamp Unto My Feet, Devotion 2
I was reading yesterday about the journey of the children of Israel and their promise of a new land. The land flowing with milk and honey. I learned that it was a land of…