(in)courage

25 Apr 2013

The safe place that every woman needs

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This is for the hurt women. The wish-they-had-sisters women. The why-wasn’t-I-invited women. This is for the girlfriends and heart friends and long distance friends and miss-my-friends friends. This is for the women who love long afternoons catching up and slow Saturdays on the sofa splitting the last brownie, the first story, the hard memory. This is for the sisterhood, the motherhood, the neighborhood, the misunderstood. This is for the places that got broken by the friends who wouldn’t forgive, couldn’t keep reading…

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26 Mar 2013

When last did you get together with girlfriends?

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Last night the only thing that stood between me and the desire to lock my children in their bedroom indefinitely was a heaping bowl of chocolate ice cream with sprinkles AND chocolate sauce. The kind that gets hard and crackly when you put it on the ice cream. They kept popping up out of bed long after they should have been asleep and me and the ice cream, we barricaded ourselves in the bedroom to wait for Pete to get keep reading…

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14 Jan 2013

You’re invited. Seriously, please come and join us!!

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Last year I spent most of the weekend of April 27th crying. When I wasn’t crying I was grinning ear to ear. It was our first ever attempt to gather women and (in)courage readers from across the globe together in real life. Nearly 2,000 sisters in Christ showed up and it flat out took our breath away. {That’s me on the right with my friend Christy who helped host our meetup}. For months the (in)courage team had been praying for keep reading…

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29 Nov 2012

When you wonder why everyone else seems to have friends

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The thing about women is that we always assume the girl next door, the women across the aisle, the mom in the car pool lane, your husband’s best friend’s wife, your cousin, great aunt or the stranger in the dressing room next to you at the mall has it figured out. Whether “it’s” how to balance motherhood with, well, anything else really. Or how to manage her temper or style her hair or stock her fridge or connect with her keep reading…

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06 Aug 2012

Ever wanted to lead an online community group?

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Women encouraging women is one of my favorite things. Sisters caring, showing up with soup, watching the kids, folding the laundry, sharing the recipes, picking the kids up, shuttling to baseball practice, holding the hard times with both hands and a full heart, celebrating through the beauty of extraordinary days, spreading their five minutes of writing so that it ends up rippling far and wide with encouragement. Yes, that’s the sisterhood of the real, the glorious, the messy, the wonder keep reading…

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