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Back when all my kids still lived at home:
Journal Entry, 2008

Tonight was our weekly family night—an evening dedicated to spending intentional time together, building relationships through shared ac...

Depression weighed heavily on me during my second pregnancy. I was genuinely thrilled to be expecting another baby, but the hormonal rollercoaster made it nearly impossible to feel the joy.

Labor was...

"Leaning into" your problem is less painful than pretending it doesn't exist.

One afternoon, as I was playing with my kids, my sweet little two-year-old stepped on my hair.

The moment I felt the pai...

By Robyn Young

"I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."
— Ancient Proverb

Have you ever been around one of those eternal optimists—the kind of person who, right after...

Here’s a tough question—one that’s easy to answer when life is going well, but much harder in the thick of adversity:
When the challenges feel heavier than you can bear, and the odds seem impossibly s...

You may or may not know this, but we now have FOUR kids either in college or heading there soon—so how to pay for it is a constant topic in our home. We’re encouraging our kids to get through school w...

Jan showed up at Mentor Training in an electric wheelchair and with a service dog.

To attend, she drove over 1200 miles (each way), pulling over as needed to sleep in her van, despite the physical di...

From Mike Peters, one of our Mindset Mastery Honors Graduates and Genius Bootcamp Participants. Mike writes:

Super LONG and Super COOL Laws of Thought Story and Tender Mercies…

First Some Back Story...

Sometimes you get what you want only after finding peace of mind and happiness without it.

TRANSCRIPT:

Did you know that it is a choice: y...

You may have heard about the time I called the cops on the kid who broke my broom. But did you know there’s another broom story—one that happened exactly ten years later?

Before I share the second st...

Disclaimer: I understand there are real and serious circumstances where divorce is necessary. But I also believe it happens far too often in situations where it doesn’t have to. So, here’s some food f...

Serenity is life’s supreme accomplishment.
Not because it means the storms stop coming—but because it means we learn how to find peace and joy despite them.

James Allen described serenity as the “sup...

It’s been a very interesting New Year. As we said goodbye to 2016, we couldn’t shake the feeling that change was in the air.

So when my husband noticed an intriguing job posting at what I’ll call “Co...

As explained in Phase 2 of The Mindset Fundamentals Ecourse, we live in a Universe governed by natural laws, including the Law of Rhythm. This means we'll experience both highs and lows, even when we’...

There's something I want you to know about this book, Success Through Failing.

My first memory of the author of this book was when she entered a contest to win a free ticket to my Genius Bootcamp. ...

If you're not as happy as you'd like to be, then better opportunities or circumstances will make you happy, right?

Well… maybe.

But often, those better opportunities and circumstances only come to y...

What is a “Poor Little Genius”?

A Poor Little Genius is someone with incredible, God-given gifts and talents tucked inside of them—but who might still be struggling financially or creatively because ...

You want to succeed, so you’re trying to figure out how. First, you’re told: run faster, sleep less!

Then you hear: just see it done, then let go ~

So you try that—until a voice in the back of your ...