The Brilliant Balance Blog

You may have noticed I haven’t posted a blog in two weeks. (Or maybe you haven’t. Which is exactly my point!) I needed a break and I took one. I had a million-and-one things going on in my life and blogging just wasn’t going to fit. And guess what! It all turned out okay. The world is still […]

Every morning when my iPhone alarm goes off, I’m confronted with a simple question. “How do you want to feel today?”  It’s a little note I wrote to myself that I set as the memo on that alarm, and it’s my daily reminder that I get to choose. So do you. How do you want to feel today? […]

Walk into any store in your neighborhood and you’ll see just how intrigued we are by the allure of instant results. The claims blare forth from every product label and magazine cover. We’re living in a culture that flat out expects everything to happen effortlessly and overnight – you’ll see it’s true as we expectantly fill our carts […]

My husband and I sat our children down for a little 80’s education this weekend in the form of a family movie night at home. The feature film?  Back to the Future, of course. What a trip. Between the 1985 flashbacks and the reminder of just how perfect Michael J. Fox was in that film, we were all mesmerized. […]

My six year old and I had an enlightening discussion about piano last night. She expressed an interest in playing and I gleefully launched into a long-winded plan to help her accomplish this as though I’d been waiting my whole life for an interest to be expressed. I was DELIGHTED. She was NOT. My sweetheart of […]