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Two Ways to Cope with the Stress of the Holidays

December 17, 2021 By Jody Hedlund

The holiday season is full of demands. We have our to-do lists that run longer than a novel—baking an old-fashioned fruit cake, mixing fresh snow into ice cream for the kids, and hand-embroidering a Christmas stocking for the pet hamster.Okay, so not really! But most of us DO feel the increased pressure in one form or another during the Christmas season. There's the decorating, baking, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry Tagged With: Christmas, Jody Hedlund, stress

How Can an Insanely Busy Person Make Time for Reading?

December 1, 2017 By Jody Hedlund

For the past five years, I’ve had a lot of fun using Goodreads as a place to organize the books I read. As this year comes to a close, I’ve been keeping a close watch on my 2017 Goodreads shelf which lists all of the books I’ve read over the past months. 2017 is shaping up to be my best year to date. I’ve already read 50 books, and I plan to squeeze a few more in during December. My goal is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Jody Hedlund, reading, stress

How To Take Care of Yourself

August 16, 2017 By Lenora Worth

That fight or flight thing gets us in trouble. Stress leads to burn-out. When we crash and burn it is hard to get up and get going again. Writers share war stories. But writers also share something else—burn-out that is related to writing. This is a different kind of stress, because we think too much. We process, analyze, dissect, put back together, and come up with ten ways to worry over a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry Tagged With: faith, Lenora Worth, self-care, stress, writing

Be still and Know–Even when you’re on deadline

May 18, 2016 By Lenora Worth

Hello. It's Hump Day. Since I'm on a tight deadline and I need the words to pour through me in record time, I'll let my pictures do the talking. Prayer on that deadline need would be greatly appreciated. But even with a deadline looming, I have to take my own advice. I need to be still and know God will see me through. In the meantime, I thought I'd share some recent pictures I've taken in some of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Faith Tagged With: Be still, beautiful places, coping, deadlines, Lenora Worth, stress

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