• Happy birthday to the heart beating out of my chest ❤️ 7 years ago I gave birth to the most outgoing, loving, strong willed, curious, independent, creative, sassy (like really sassy 😆), and smart little girl. I’m SO proud of the person she is and the person she is becoming. A couple weeks ago I asked her a few questions and I was so proud of her answers! Thought I’d share a few of my favorites 🥰 • What do you think it means to be a woman? “It means to be brave, smart, and talented.” • What does it mean to be beautiful? “It means to be nice, to share, and to give.” • Does it matter more to be beautiful on the outside or on the inside? “On the inside, no ones perfect, they can still be beautiful on the outside but we are all perfect, and your heart is on the inside and your feelings and emotions are on the inside.” I love you, my powerful 7 year old, happy birthday ❤️
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    Happy birthday to the heart beating out of my chest ❤️ 7 years ago I gave birth to the most outgoing, loving, strong willed, curious, independent, creative, sassy (like really sassy 😆), and smart little girl. I’m SO proud of the person she is and the person she is becoming. A couple weeks ago I asked her a few questions and I was so proud of her answers! Thought I’d share a few of my favorites 🥰 • What do you think it means to be a woman? “It means to be brave, smart, and talented.” • What does it mean to be beautiful? “It means to be nice, to share, and to give.” • Does it matter more to be beautiful on the outside or on the inside? “On the inside, no ones perfect, they can still be beautiful on the outside but we are all perfect, and your heart is on the inside and your feelings and emotions are on the inside.” I love you, my powerful 7 year old, happy birthday ❤️
  • 🖤 #blackouttuesday
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    🖤 #blackouttuesday
  • To the one who made me a mama. ⠀ To all the late nights making forts, watching movies, and laughing together out of delirium till we fall asleep — because of you I remember to ENJOY the little things. ⠀ To all the mornings waking up next to you with your arm thrown over me and your sleepy little face next to mine — because of you I know PEACE. ⠀ To all the afternoons watching you sing and dance your heart out on the balcony for all our neighbors to hear — because of you I know JOY. ⠀ To all the moments in the midst of chaos and uncertainty that you helped me chose courage over fear and to see lightness over darkness — because of you I am not ALONE. ⠀ To all the forgiveness you so freely give to me when I don’t always get it right, when I feel like giving up, when this damn quarantine threatened to break me in half — because of you I know GRACE. ⠀ I love you sweet girl, thank you for teaching me lessons every day and for making me the luckiest mama 😘 ⠀ Because of you, I know LOVE. ⠀ #mothersday2020
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    To the one who made me a mama. ⠀ To all the late nights making forts, watching movies, and laughing together out of delirium till we fall asleep — because of you I remember to ENJOY the little things. ⠀ To all the mornings waking up next to you with your arm thrown over me and your sleepy little face next to mine — because of you I know PEACE. ⠀ To all the afternoons watching you sing and dance your heart out on the balcony for all our neighbors to hear — because of you I know JOY. ⠀ To all the moments in the midst of chaos and uncertainty that you helped me chose courage over fear and to see lightness over darkness — because of you I am not ALONE. ⠀ To all the forgiveness you so freely give to me when I don’t always get it right, when I feel like giving up, when this damn quarantine threatened to break me in half — because of you I know GRACE. ⠀ I love you sweet girl, thank you for teaching me lessons every day and for making me the luckiest mama 😘 ⠀ Because of you, I know LOVE. ⠀ #mothersday2020
  • This is 27. Wholly unbalanced with an internal peace that can’t be shaken. It’s been a wildly busy year and and a deeply healing few months. Thank you for sticking with me through the ebb + flow of my presence in this space. I’ve been doing human things like healing places in my heart I didn’t know needed healing, becoming the mom my daughter needs, and building a business that pours into my people well. It’s been a beautiful and complex journey that’s required all of my energy, but truly, this has been my favorite season of life! Naturally, I’m still laughing till I cry and SO grateful for another 365 days around the sun ❤️ #birthdaygirl
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    This is 27. Wholly unbalanced with an internal peace that can’t be shaken. It’s been a wildly busy year and and a deeply healing few months. Thank you for sticking with me through the ebb + flow of my presence in this space. I’ve been doing human things like healing places in my heart I didn’t know needed healing, becoming the mom my daughter needs, and building a business that pours into my people well. It’s been a beautiful and complex journey that’s required all of my energy, but truly, this has been my favorite season of life! Naturally, I’m still laughing till I cry and SO grateful for another 365 days around the sun ❤️ #birthdaygirl
  • Japan, you were good to me... part of me will always remain here ❤️ #homewardbound
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    Japan, you were good to me... part of me will always remain here ❤️ #homewardbound
  • Yūgen | A Japanese concept meaning “an awareness of the Universe that triggers an emotional response too deep and powerful for words.” • The moment @philipdanger_ introduced me to this word, I immediately felt at home with it. There have been so many moments in my life where time stands still and what I feel is beyond anything I can express in words. • I can’t tell you how many stories I have half-written from my travels about the simplest of experiences changing my life.... Catching the sunset after a hike in Germany, strangers helping me find my way in a foreign place, hearing echoes of a violin in a subway station in New York City, singing in harmony with a room full of strangers in Nashville, hearing the sound of birds chirping as I woke up in Berlin, feeling the wind and rain on my face as I ran my first half marathon in Chicago, watching a pen glide over paper as locals drew maps and directions to “must see” places, learning to say “thank you” in other languages for the first time, hearing church bells chiming in Italy after a couple just committed their lives to one another, feeling the fresh mountain air on my skin after a hike in the Rockies, drinking warm matcha after partaking in a tea ceremony in Japan... and so on and so on and so on... • With every attempt to describe these moments, I am reminded how limited language can be. I feel like I’m always searching for some perfect word that does not exist. Gratitude for this beautiful life is always less words, and more tears in my eyes. • Yūgen is “obscurity,” “unknowability,” “mystery,” “beyond intellectual calculability,” but not “utter darkness.” That being said, I may never be able to explain yūgen when I experience it, but I will always know it when I feel it, and for me, that is enough.
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    Yūgen | A Japanese concept meaning “an awareness of the Universe that triggers an emotional response too deep and powerful for words.” • The moment @philipdanger_ introduced me to this word, I immediately felt at home with it. There have been so many moments in my life where time stands still and what I feel is beyond anything I can express in words. • I can’t tell you how many stories I have half-written from my travels about the simplest of experiences changing my life.... Catching the sunset after a hike in Germany, strangers helping me find my way in a foreign place, hearing echoes of a violin in a subway station in New York City, singing in harmony with a room full of strangers in Nashville, hearing the sound of birds chirping as I woke up in Berlin, feeling the wind and rain on my face as I ran my first half marathon in Chicago, watching a pen glide over paper as locals drew maps and directions to “must see” places, learning to say “thank you” in other languages for the first time, hearing church bells chiming in Italy after a couple just committed their lives to one another, feeling the fresh mountain air on my skin after a hike in the Rockies, drinking warm matcha after partaking in a tea ceremony in Japan... and so on and so on and so on... • With every attempt to describe these moments, I am reminded how limited language can be. I feel like I’m always searching for some perfect word that does not exist. Gratitude for this beautiful life is always less words, and more tears in my eyes. • Yūgen is “obscurity,” “unknowability,” “mystery,” “beyond intellectual calculability,” but not “utter darkness.” That being said, I may never be able to explain yūgen when I experience it, but I will always know it when I feel it, and for me, that is enough.
  • I feel most alive when I’m reminded how small I am in a world as big and beautiful as this. Arigatōgozaimashita Japan. Thank you. ❤️ • Can’t wait to share our trip to Miyajima Island yesterday. There may have been little Bambi’s and kimonos involved. My life is complete. 🥰
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    I feel most alive when I’m reminded how small I am in a world as big and beautiful as this. Arigatōgozaimashita Japan. Thank you. ❤️ • Can’t wait to share our trip to Miyajima Island yesterday. There may have been little Bambi’s and kimonos involved. My life is complete. 🥰
  • Some @tychaseglass and @zglass magic for your Monday because I’m forever obsessed with them 😘 ...and also because I’m running on 2 hours of sleep with 16 more hours of travel time to go and would LOVE to be curled up in bed in some pj’s right now 😴
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    Some @tychaseglass and @zglass magic for your Monday because I’m forever obsessed with them 😘 ...and also because I’m running on 2 hours of sleep with 16 more hours of travel time to go and would LOVE to be curled up in bed in some pj’s right now 😴