Heart & Home Articles

Creating “Easy Buttons” for Your Spiritual, Physical, and Mental Health

When we have habits, routines, plans, systems in place we free our minds from having to remember to do something — these are my “easy buttons.”

Love Will Carry Us Through: Finding Healing in Marriage

When we are young and we fall in love we believe that everything will work out. That our love will carry us through. At least that’s what I believed. My parents tried to tell me that ‘marriage was hard.’ Ha! They just didn’t understand my relationship. My husband and...

5 Ways to Cultivate a Heart of Joy

The key to a happy life is the simplicity of the soul.  So it’s time to eradicate our self importance.  One of the greatest ways of doing that is through laughing.  And laughing a lot.  Chesterton reminds us that “angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” ...

Underrated + Lovable Christmas Films

From a little girl to well into my early twenties, I always savored the evenings during the season where my family and I would pull out the board games or good old movies — everything is extra cozy by the soft twinkling lights of a Christmas tree. I remember so much laughter and warmth, the images alone fill me up each year. Yet now, I can take those precious core memories and build upon them with my new, sweet family. It’s such a gift, that I wanted to share some some delightful (but underrated) Christmas movies to add to your rotation this holiday season…