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pretty views, sweet memories, and a grateful heart ❤️
08/09/2026

pretty views, sweet memories, and a grateful heart ❤️

forever a sure thing + always my plus one 💚💍🤭 Loved getting to celebrate the Faison’s! Had the beeesssttt time at their ...
08/04/2026

forever a sure thing + always my plus one 💚💍🤭

Loved getting to celebrate the Faison’s! Had the beeesssttt time at their wedding!

07/19/2026

I love when the Holy Spirit gives me phrases to you for my kids!

I’ve always been a supporter of “take ‘can’t’ out your vocabulary”, but I remember the first time Josiah told me he couldn’t do something. I told him not to say that and then quickly realized I didn’t have anything to replace it with.

I remember asking the Lord, “If he shouldn’t say ‘can’t’, what should I tell him to say instead to express his need for help?”

Boom. “I can do it, I just need help” was birthed!

I love this phrase because it honors two truths at the same time.

It acknowledges that children are limited in some ways. It’s a part of their journey here on earth. They don’t come out of the womb being capable of doing everything and that’s normal.

It also protects his mindset. I never want him to think that just because he’s having a hard time doing something in this stage of his life, that means it’ll always be that way.

Instead of only teaching him what he shouldn’t say, I wanted to also give him a tool to use when he finds himself in a tough situation: not giving up, but asking for help.

It’s okay to acknowledge our children’s struggle while also giving them language that builds resilience, humility, and confidence all at once.

“I can do it. I just need help.” Stick that in your back pocket the next time your baby tells you they can’t do something!

It won’t only help them now, but it’ll carry over with them into adulthood as well 🤍

07/18/2026

Is it just me or is anyone else first instinct to hide when life starts lifing??? Like alright, I’ll see yall on the flip side when things feel normal again 😭

At the beginning of this year, I locked in with God to confront the things I’d been avoiding. When I felt the Lord leading me to start serving, I had plenty of rebuttals.

At the time, my life was in SHAMBLES. What do you mean serve, Lord??? I can barely think straight 🥴 but little did I know, He was going to use my yes as a means to take me through another level of healing.

While it’s easier to shut the world out and hide, I want to encourage you to press into community even more when life gets wild.

Continuing to not only show up at church, but serve others as well didn’t solve all my problems. However, it gave me something I didn’t even realize I needed: people who knew my name, noticed when I wasn’t there, celebrated with me, prayed for me, and reminded me that I didn’t have to carry everything alone.

Yes, healing can happen in private when we’re alone and it’s just us and the Lord. But healing can also happen in conversations after church, in shared meals, in serving alongside people who become family, in allowing yourself to be known before you have it all together.

If you’re in your own “Project: Me” season, maybe this is your sign to heal within community instead of hiding 🫂🤍

P.S. I love my Ray-Ban | Meta glasses 😍 it makes filming a lot easier!

07/16/2026

One thing I’m becoming more intentional about is not letting Josiah misinterpret moments of correction and internalize them.

When I corrected Josiah in this moment, I wanted him to know two things at the same time:

🎯 He wasn’t in trouble.
🎯 I wasn’t mad at him.

However, I had given an instruction and I needed him to follow through with it.

Im a firm believer in holding boundaries and I also know how easy it is for a child that’s still developing to internalize discipline and take it as rejection or think that their behavior defines who they are as a person.

So when he expresses that I’ve made him feel sad after being corrected, I try to reassure him of my love while still holding him accountable.

Side note: I also really love that he’s comfortable telling me that I’ve hurt his feelings and we’re able to talk about it 🥺

07/16/2026

Joining a cult was never on my bingo card. 🥴😭

Yet God did exactly what His Word says He would do. He took what the enemy meant for evil and used it for good.

Coming to the realization that I was in a cult and that I needed to be delivered was the catalyst for a much deeper healing journey. God used that painful experience to expose the places in my heart that had been wounded long before I ever walked through those doors.

What the enemy intended to keep me bound, God used to set me free 😮‍💨

Looking back, I can see His hand even in the darkest parts of my story. He didn’t waste my pain. He redeemed it, healed me, and drew me closer to Himself.

If you’re walking through something painful right now, I pray this encourages you: God is able to redeem what feels irredeemable. Your story isn’t over, and your wounds don’t have to have the final say. There is freedom, healing, and hope in Christ. 🤍

06/09/2026

Lately, God has been showing me that “training up a child” is so much deeper than simply correcting behavior or punishing for it. It’s teaching, equipping, guiding, modeling, and patiently walking our children through the right way to respond or behave.

In this moment, my son was upset that his sister knocked over this tower he was building. They started fighting, screaming, crying the whole nine. So, I waited for the emotions to simmer down a bit and I got their attention.

I checked on my son because he was clearly upset and instructed him to use one of the “tools” we’ve taught him when he’s emotional, which is taking a deep breath. Then, I reminded him of truth— that he has control over his emotions. Lastly, I walked him through what he should do instead when problems arise.

This video is a visual of what I do 10-15 times a day (not being dramatic) 🙃😭 but one thing motherhood is teaching me is that repetition is not failure. Repeating ourselves doesn’t automatically mean our children are rebellious or that we’re doing something wrong. Sometimes it simply means they are still learning.

Children are not born knowing emotional regulation, patience, gentleness, or self-control. These are things we must intentionally teach over and over again with consistency, grace, and wisdom.

“I shouldn’t have to repeat myself” or “Why do I have to keep telling you…” is a belief system that needs to be dismantled because we in fact should be repeating ourselves (especially when they’re under 18) so that what we’re trying to teach them becomes rooted in their subconscious mind and they carry it with them throughout their lifetime (so this also means we have to be mindful of what we say to them and how we say it).

I’d much rather say, “you have control over your emotions” “take a deep breath” “you can be upset and still be kind” 75 times a day and my son hears that in his head when he’s 24 years old navigating relationships vs. yelling at him for reacting out of emotion and he’s 24 years old suppressing how he feels because he feels emotionally unsafe and doesn’t know how to regulate himself and express himself

endless blue 🦋🐬🌀🩵🫐
05/31/2026

endless blue 🦋🐬🌀🩵🫐

the joy of just being 🌼🐥🤭🍯💛
05/30/2026

the joy of just being 🌼🐥🤭🍯💛

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