Day 3 of no sugar. I’m pleasantly surprised that I haven’t had nearly as many cravings for sugar as I’ve anticipated. I have candy and ice cream in my house (I have four kids after all!) but so far so good! I’m eating lots of protein and quality carbohydrates (lots of veggies!), so I thinkContinueContinue reading “Why is cutting sugar important as a perimenopausal woman?”
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Just Breathe.
Just breath. It’s one of the simplest things. Most of the time we don’t even think about it! And yet, it is an incredibly powerful tool for reducing the stress hormone, cortisol. This week I am challenging myself to starting my day with deep breaths and I’m setting an alarm in my phone to chimeContinueContinue reading “Just Breathe.”
Three Daily Practices to Change Your Life
It seems like everyone these days has a formula for happiness. Do this. Don’t do that. Follow these steps for instant happiness. I don’t know that these three things will lead to happiness every minute of every day (what a laughable goal anyway), but I do know that the quality of your life will beContinueContinue reading “Three Daily Practices to Change Your Life”
Setting intentions
The problem with most resolutions is that they are vague ideals: to lose weight, to make more money, to fall in love, to do better at cleaning the house. What we call resolutions aren’t really a course of action or a plan. What we call resolutions are more often just pie in the sky hopes. And while hoping and dreaming are very important in their own right, without a set of objectives to reach the goal, they are often in vain, without coming to fruition.
Beauty: the keyhole to eternity
Beauty has the unique ability to pull back the curtain of our cares and worries and leave us fully exposed to one moment in time when our souls resonate with eternity.
To everything there is a season: Sukkot 2017
To everything there is a season… We are in the midst of Sukkot, what Christians might know better from their Sunday school lessons as The Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths. God gives the directions for celebrating in Leviticus 23. 39 “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gatheredContinueContinue reading “To everything there is a season: Sukkot 2017”
When “why” is silent
Why? Why? Why? Do you ever want to know why? Right now why is on my mind? Why? Well, I think I have an idea at least in this moment, but a lot of times we want to know why and we don’t have an answer. Simon Sinek, the leadership author, tells us what toContinueContinue reading “When “why” is silent”
Playing catch-up: How many holidays in one post?
It’s not your imagination if you’re thinking what in the world happened to Seeking Shalom. This blog just completely disappeared off the map. To our readers, I apologize for two weeks of silence. I have been struggling with auto-immune issues and trying to stay afloat in my grad school responsibilities and Jay has been busyContinueContinue reading “Playing catch-up: How many holidays in one post?”
In the beginning…
When this idea entered my head a few months ago, I at first dismissed it at completely insane. Follow Jewish traditions and customs and holidays for a year? Why would a Christian pastor’s family decide to do this? Surely there is no need. Why make life more complicated than it already is? Why do IContinueContinue reading “In the beginning…”
That Shalom Life 