Welcome! I am so very excited that you are here. Truly. If there is, in fact, anyone that is reading these words I am already very humbled by your presence. Allow me to introduce myself.
I’m Stefanie. Stef to my family and close friends. You can call me either one. I have always been a writer. I just didn’t always give myself permission to say that. I always loved my Language Arts Classes growing up and secretly hoped for essays to be assigned so I would have an “excuse” to write. I have kept journals since I was 9. They moved to blogs and Instagram Posts in about 2010 when I had my first child. I have 3 children. They are all girls and they are all amazing. I will talk about them here a bit but they are also their own people so I do not want to give their lives an online presence too much without their consent. I will talk about parenting and motherhood and womanhood and being a feminine person in this very complex and modern world.
So, why now? You ask? Simply put: I want to write more. I want to put my thoughts and words out into the world. I want to contribute to the dialogue happening about current events and culture. I want to create and cultivate community. A community of people who know and understand how very complex our lives actually are, and also how very simple our humanity is.
This space is available and open to all who are interested. I am an LGBTQIA ally who believes that Black Lives Matter, which, (spoiler alert), means that every human person matters and is worthy of love and belonging as well as community and connection. I believe that we all deserve love and basic human rights and we all can work towards that the more we are willing to discuss hard things and also be open to collective success.
I am going to be posting here weekly. Thursday nights will be my regular posting time so you all can read the updates on Friday mornings. I will also be offering expanded tools and content to paid subscribers. This will be a small monthly fee that will be used to create some videos and additional Life Coaching Content for those into encouragement and motivation in their weekly inboxes. Don’t worry, the blog-style posts will be free for everyone.
I am an Executive Cultural Coach and Life Coach for my job and I absolutely love all things Mental Health, Psychology, Neuroscience, Self-Compassion and Self-Love and anything that promotes Self-Awareness and Learning. I also will talk about music I love as well as books I am reading and love (or not) and my family and relationships.
Being a human can be tough but the older I get, the more I see how much easier it is when we are in deep connection with others. Being alone can be very revealing and serves an important purpose for sure. But it is in the connections we forge with each other where we have the most incredible growth and love and we learn how to make it through this complicated and beautiful life.
So here we are! Let’s do this together. Comment on this post to say hello and introduce yourself to me. I am so happy you are here.
Here I am in a place where you will find me often… my car. 3 kids at 3 schools and no buses at each means I am in the car a lot. I get a lot of my best ideas in this very seat!
Currently Reading: “Caste: The Origins of our Discontent” by Isabel Wilkerson (Link: Caste: The origins of our Discontent)
Currently Listening to: “Feel Alright” by Avi Kaplan (Link: Feel Alright )