Maniacally Hopeful
I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...
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exploring the micro + macro of a joyful life.
Words are my super power. I believe the stories we tell shape our reality. When we actively participate in being the author of our story we choose the lens we see life through. This empowered perspective allows us to seek joy in the mundane, pleasure in the ordinary, excitement in the routine.
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Emmy Pickering
May 26, 20216 min read
Too Good To Be True
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...
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Emmy Pickering
Feb 24, 20216 min read
On Purpose
We forget that we are the only ones who can truly know our experience, the manual can’t apply to you because it wasn’t written about you....
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Emmy Pickering
Jan 27, 20219 min read
Hold The Line
I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...
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Emmy Pickering
Dec 30, 202010 min read
2020 Vision
2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...
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Emmy Pickering
Dec 16, 20203 min read
That Time Again
When people see those big promotions for setting intentions and resolutions I think many can feel overwhelmed by it all. The whole ‘new...
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Emmy Pickering
Nov 25, 20205 min read
Something Worth Celebrating
Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...
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Emmy Pickering
Oct 28, 20205 min read
To Sustain Us
This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...
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Emmy Pickering
Jul 29, 20205 min read
What Matters Most
I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...
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Emmy Pickering
Jul 1, 20204 min read
Bright Spots
I have a book for each of my girls and I write to them on big holidays and their birthdays, I’ve been doing it since they were each in...
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Emmy Pickering
Jun 24, 20205 min read
Welcome Gracie Juniper
Eight years ago today my waters had already broke. Actually they broke over 36 hours ago and there I was, waiting for you to be born. I...
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Emmy Pickering
Jun 10, 20204 min read
PLEASURE | JOY | FUN
Throwback to February when I originally wrote this…I wonder, given current events and circumstances, if anyone has been able to embrace...
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Emmy Pickering
Apr 29, 20206 min read
A Life that is Good
Imagine… You wake up feeling well rested. You see the sun shining around the cracks of your curtain in the bedroom and know in your bones...
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Emmy Pickering
Apr 17, 20206 min read
Don’t censor JOY.
I woke up to Edie’s coos and the distinct sound of a 7 year old creating a breakfast masterpiece in the kitchen. You know that sound of...
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Emmy Pickering
Apr 2, 20206 min read
Microfocusing on the Moment
This Weird Time, that’s all I can refer to it as. I don’t like saying “new normal” because that seems to add a sense of laissez-faire...
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