Category: self-care

• Needed

  

  Somewhere deep down, we all want to feel needed here, beyond Can you count these paper clips? Way beyond Turn in your time sheets. So far beyond Pay your doctors’ bill or It’s time for your colonoscopy.

  ashleyfenker

  July 20, 2018

  addiction, death, expectations, faith, home, life, motivation, self-care

  addiction, advice, building, counseling, daily, death, essays, health, inspiration, life, love, mental, messy, needed, ordinary, pain, self-care, writing, you

• The End of a Winter Journal

  

  I wonder if it’s worth counting how many mornings over the last four months I scribbled about watching the pink sunrise while listening to the coffee drip from the kitchen just behind me. Each time, I wrote it as if it was a new thought, a new sight, a new sound. And yet, there’s nothing…

  ashleyfenker

  May 4, 2018

  beauty, home, life, motivation, self-care, writing

  advice, beauty, habits, home, inspiration, journaling, life, seasons, self-care, space, spring, story, writing

• How to cancel your pity party

  

  I used to babysit a little boy who would say (on repeat during his Cars movie obsession), “Oh no! Tow Mater’s stuck in the mud! Stuck in the mud! Stuck in the mud!” And it reminds me of the emails I receive from readers all over the world. I’m stuck in the mud… I’m stuck in the…

  ashleyfenker

  April 3, 2018

  addiction, beauty, life, self-care

  addiction, advice, celebrate, family, habits, inspiration, life, motivation, self-care, uplifting