The Brilliant Balance Blog

I had a fabulous conversation this morning with a woman I coach that got me thinking about the power that Either/Or thinking holds over many of us. Without even realizing it, we box ourselves into pairs of alternatives that feel mutually exclusive and then we bounce between them trying to decide which one is the better option. Either I […]

Remember when you were a little girl and you’d play make believe with your friends? Someone would say, “I’ll be the big sister and you can be the little brother.”  Or “I’ll be the person who works the cash register and you can be the person who comes into the store to shop.” Or “I’ll be a […]

As someone who loves her work, sometimes it’s all too easy to drift into a zone of imbalance without feeling the effects right away. It’s one thing when you hate what you’re doing and resent your need to burn the midnight oil, but when you love what you do, well, then work sometimes feels like play […]

My two youngest children are in rehearsals for an upcoming school production of Winnie The Pooh (Kids). I’d all but forgotten the deep wisdom to be gleaned from the pages of A.A. Milne’s Tales of Winnie the Pooh, but the lessons have come flooding back to me as I listen to my littles sing their hearts out. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore […]

‘Tis the season for all things cozy and warm. I know just the words “Pumpkin Spice Latte” evoke an emotional (okay, Pavlovian) response from more than one of you. I’m more of a “Tall-Blonde-Half-Caf-Room-For-Cream” kind of girl myself, but apparently there’s not a specific season for that. Whatever, Starbucks. We’re snuggling up to Fall these days and I for […]

My daughter informed me last night after volleyball practice that she’s not going to be in her school choir this year. Rehearsals begin tomorrow, and frankly, I’d assumed she was all in! This is a girl who loves to sing and who loves God so singing about God makes choir a no brainer. Or so I thought. When I […]

I used to just abhor spending time in my car alone. This is incredibly unfortunate because as a mom of three, I spend a ridiculous amount of time behind the wheel. It just always seemed so unproductive, as though little snippets of my life were being cast off into the wind. I tried to fix the situation, but I […]

Well, hello there. Yep, you. The one with that idea in the back of your mind. That idea that keeps surfacing even though you keep pushing it back again and again. I know you don’t think it’s possible. But what if it is?  What if you really can do it? What if you actually do have what it takes?  What if […]