A few years ago, when the beast that is anxiety made it’s way in to my life, I was beside myself.  Was this my destiny?  Would I continue to be crippled by the weight of stress and worry and tension as I got older?  I had a hard time accepting that but had no idea if I had any control over this new sensation I was feeling.  All I knew was that I wasn’t willing to just sit back...

It’s so easy to become habituated to a negative head-space.  We get caught up in stressful or pessimistic thought patterns and they just perpetuate themselves.  These patterns leaving us wondering why life seems to be kicking our ass left and right.  What it all boils down to however, is perspective.  There will always be good and bad in life, our life perspective is a result...

It’s a mild winter day sometime in February and Mark and I are driving down a quiet Arizona highway.  Ever since selling our house and taking to life on the road, our quest for “the next thing” had kicked in to high gear.  For years we’d been craving a change, a new chapter, a new challenge but so far nothing had struck us…we’d only felt more and more lost.  So we drive.  To new regions, new...

Life has been hard on me lately.  Scratch that.  I’ve been hard on me lately.  There’s a big difference. It seems the older I get, the more questions I have about life.  And it seems, the more questions I have, the less answers I’m able to find.  I turn 37 this month.  10 years ago I would have thought I’d have so much more figured out by now.  Instead, getting older only shows you how little you...

Perfect days are what we strive for.  Good days are what we hope for.  Bad days…well those are just bound to happen.  The thing about bad days is that we end up beating ourselves up and those around us because we let our emotions get the best of us.  The trick to navigating a bad day is recognition and acceptance.  If there is something that can be done to turn your day around and you know what...

Whether you’re feeling physically drained or you’re feeling the blues, the best thing you can do is nurture yourself.  For a moment, stop worrying about everyone and everything else and show yourself a little love.  Taking care of ourselves is often the last thing on our list or simply gets overlooked because there’s not enough time.  When I’m exhausted or feeling blue, I make myself a priority. ...

Our brains are so powerful that if we sit and dwell on something long enough, we believe that thing that we’re dwelling on is our reality.  When our actual reality may be far different. Last night Mark & I sat around a campfire, one of our favorite things to do.  Yet neither of us were enjoying it, it wasn’t providing us the peace that it usually does.  Both of our brains were consumed with...

I had a conversation with my dad recently that reminded me of an important principle in which I live by… Everything we do in life is a choice that we make.  I told him that since selling our house and beginning our life on the road, we hadn’t once wished we were back in that house.  And he said “I’ve never known you to have regrets” and I replied “that is a choice that I make, to live that...

Yesterday I hiked to the top of a mountain. A mountain that didn’t look that big from the ground. However, once I was 2,000’ above the desert floor, holding on to cables and very carefully finding footholds so that I didn’t slide down the face of the cliff to my death…the size of the mountain was no longer relevant. If I wasn’t careful, this mountain, like any mountain could end me. I am not a...

Every day Mark & I become a little more settled and familiar with living on the road.  While our location may change every few days, our days generally consist of the same thing.  Cooking, cleaning, working, paying bills, running errands, walking the dog, surfing the web.  Quite similar to any average day spent in a traditional house with one notable difference.  When your surroundings are...