On June 1st, 2013, from a hotel balcony in San Diego, I looked out at the ocean and confidently asked the universe to surprise me. I felt safe. I was in control. I had created an incredible life. I had a great job. I had an aMazing son. I had survived some pretty big life …
F O M O, aka Fear Of Missing Out… News flash: this isn’t real. It’s a made up thing to make you feel like you’re not enough. <I said what I said> It’s true, girlfriends. FOMO ain’t real. We never had it until ‘they’ said we should have it. And they repeated it and repeated it and …
What you did is not who you are. <Read that again> What you did is not who you are. I had a conversation with a friend recently about some things I did in my 20’s. Choices I made. Relationships I destroyed. Lies I told. It felt gross to say those things out loud because they …
Everywhere we look, there is pressure to do this or do that or make this and buy that. So much pressure to have a certain kind of experience and the not-so-subtle assertion that anything different is somehow ‘less’. If we don’t do it a certain way, we’ve failed. F that. Sometimes it takes all the …
There is something about a fire that draws us in – the magic of flames dancing, the smell of smoke, the permanence of destruction, the finality of turning a once physical and tangible thing to ash and dust. I love my Firepit Fridays – a fun little ritual I host for my fave neighbors where …
In the hottest month of the year, in the steamiest Texas summer, I decided to Let It Burn. I declared four full weeks ago that I would be doing a blog and video series identifying all of the things that I feel we need to burn… and then never wrote a word. Never recorded a …
Yesterday was spent navigating multiple conversations around ‘The Virus’ that seems to be overtaking the world. By the end of the day, I admit I was a bit irritated. My patience had worn thin and my level of sarcasm was peaking at an all time high. I’m feeling so many different emotions – irritation, yes. …
Have you been watching my #PROtip videos on social media? A few weeks ago, I created a Vlog series called “Life Hacks with Holly: PRO tips for making life easier.” Each week, I post a short video with a life hack I’ve applied in my own life and feel is worth sharing. Things like “Don’t …
Childhood survival behavior #47: Be right. Always be right. It preserves justice. It prevents losing. It wards off attacks… sometimes. If you’re right, you win. If you’re right, you’re safe. For most of my life, I’ve prided myself on being right. To this day, when someone says to me, “You’re right,” I love to reply …
I’ve always loved that phrase. I think because it’s not just a kick in the rear, it’s a swift one. It comes fast. I’m assuming with some ‘oomf’ and it gets your attention. Maybe there is pain involved but that’s not specified. What is very clear in the phrase is that the kick is swift. Swift doesn’t …