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Style with an impact! Link in bio✨

Style with an impact! Link in bio✨

This is Faith! She’s a bright stunning sophomore

This is Faith! She’s a bright stunning sophomore in college who just three weeks ago was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer. She had surgery today and I’m asking you if you will join me in prayer for her? Thank you friends.

It took me A. LONG. TIME. to identify my emotions!

It took me A. LONG. TIME. to identify my emotions! I’m talking 2 therapy based conferences, years of group work, a fantastic therapist, lots of Brené Brown reading and some good safe people in my life. I answered, “I’m good. It’s good. We are good” for just about everything. If it wasn’t, I was finding a way to make it good.

Then, I had a sixth grade girl with lots of emotions and my cold pragmatic responses were leaving both of us frustrated. I realized if she was emotional, then I raised my reaction to a 10 out of 10, now there were two of us with a problem.

I decided if I wanted to parent her well, I needed to deal with me. I needed to understand the times I hit a 10 out of 10, so I could get out of my own way.

I was terrified to admit I had feelings. I still am, but I’m growing. Brené Brown talks about saying, “shame, shame, shame” out loud to yourself when you feel shame. It’s so helpful! It takes the inner tornado of shame swirling around inside me and takes the power out, like a top spinning that hit a bump and it stops spinning. I learned over time to say I feel... I’m even learning when others feel... that I don’t need to freak out and make the emotion go away. It’s okay to feel.

There’s a cool process called a check in. You take a minute to be SILENT. Breathe deeply for 1 minute. Then check in with yourself. I like to check in with myself in four categories:
1. How am I feeling emotionally?
2. How am I feeling spiritually?
3. How am I feeling relationally?
4. How am I feeling spiritually?

Say it out loud or journal your answers. Eventually you can teach others to check in and share your check in. It’s best not to correct or give advise. Just make a space for them to be seen. In texts we use emojis to express how we are feeling. Ask yourself what emoji expresses how I’m feeling and then say that emotion out loud three times.

I’ll never forget sitting by a friend at breakfast and she was eating healthy and I was not. We just won a CrossFit competition together. I mournfully said, “Ugh! I feel bad eating this.”
She said, “Do you feel shame?”
For the first time I said, “I feel shame for feeling shame."
#freedom #worthit #tryit

FINDING HOPE FOR A FLOURISHING FUTURE: LAN’S STO

FINDING HOPE FOR A FLOURISHING FUTURE: LAN’S STORY

The organization we partner with to create our Storyline Collection helps women overcome exploitation and offers them vital counseling and rehabilitation services, as well as dignified jobs that empower them to support themselves and their families. Wear yours as a reminder that your story matters—and so does hers.

LAN’S STORY
“I am so grateful for this opportunity to rebuild my life again,” says Lan – an Artisan who creates Storyline Collection styles like our Opalescent Necklace. Several years ago, Lan’s life was like any other woman. About 20 years ago, he and her husband had moved to the city, their business was taking off, and they lived comfortably while raising their baby boy. “Our dreams were coming true,” says Lan, but tragedy soon struck.

After a year of battling an aggressive cancer and selling their belongings to fund medical costs, Lan’s husband passed away. Lan was left alone with no way to provide for her son. When a cousin offered her a job in a brothel disguised as a massage parlor, Lan found herself tricked into a life that she would have never chosen for herself. With nowhere else to turn, Lan stayed to provide for her family.

When COVID-19 struck their city, neighborhoods were locked down, and Lan was left without work. But our Artisan Partner’s Outreach Team found a way to deliver care packages and essential items to Lan and other women – and they invited Lan to begin a new life with a stable job making jewelry.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Lan reflects, “I jumped at the chance to change my life and be a good example to my son.” Lan is now a respected employee at the Artisan Workshop where Storyline Collection styles are made and is able to provide for her family while recognizing her worth and potential. When you purchase a Storyline accessory, you provide hope and empower women to tell a new story for themselves and their families – women just like Lan.

THE STORYLINE COLLECTION
Our East Asian Artisan Partners know that the most wonderful pieces are made with love. Every style features luxurious gold plate and is assembled by women overcoming exploitation.

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I want to look you in the eyes and remind you of y

I want to look you in the eyes and remind you of your incomparable worth! ✨

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I’ve been watching the work of Noonday Collectio

I’ve been watching the work of Noonday Collection and their Ambassadors for quite a long time. You know I do dressember. I am passionate about restoration and rescue for victims of human trafficking. The mission of Noonday is to support artisans so they can have the dignified work. But how would we be connected to these artisans? How do we ensure fair trade? I am a girl who will buy a cute necklace from any store as I am walking by, but I’m not sure who made it and if they are receiving a fair wage. I’m slowly, really slowly trying to incorporate purchases that supports dignified, sustainable work for artisans. Here’s one step I am taking! I’m putting myself out there as an ambassador for Noonday Collection. There are three ways you can support this cause:
1. Host a trunk show! We can style you and your friends!
2. Next time you need a gift, shop Noonday with me. I’m happy to help you find the perfect gift.
3. Join me as an ambassador!

Rethink the way you shop. Before you make that impulse purchase, or buy that gift last minute, consider if you could make a meaningful purchase fair trade and beautiful. I’d love to help you find that perfect gift and support artisans around the globe too. Together we can make an impact!

This first photo is from the Noonday conference. It’s the swag! This community is fun! The vision is beautiful! I’m IN! Thank you for considering joining into this beautiful community with your support! We can’t do a lot, but we can each do a little! SHINE!

Ways to care for yourself right now. •Do somethi

Ways to care for yourself right now.
•Do something kind for another. Use your energy and creativity to serve someone. There’s a lot of need right now. When we serve, our light rises up within us.
• Take a 30 minute walk and take photos of the beauty you see. This is a way to practice gratitude. You will be reminded of how huge the world is while noticing the care put into every detail like the veins of a leaf or the texture and colors of the bark on the tree.
• Do a stretch class or an online yoga class to relax your nervous system and release tension in your muscles. I love my friend Rebecca South’s classes live on FB. She’s the best! I feel incredible after her classes!
• Meditate on a chapter or verse in the Bible. Take a few minutes to read, let it soak in. Look up words. Check out the context. See what stands out to you. Journal about it. This practice is grounding. It’s intentionally feeding good into our mind and soul.
• Take time to make a healthy meal. Admire the ingredients. Follow a recipe. Share what you make.
• Have a meaningful conversation.
• Listen to music and sing along.
• Listen to an educational or encouraging podcast or sermon.
• Take a 37 minute nap.
• Drink a ton of water! Try 5 glasses to start and work your way up.
• knock one nagging thing off your to do list.
• Dream! Think of one thing you are looking forward to and take one small step towards that goal.

Self care helps us love ourselves and engage in the world wholeheartedly. If we can care for ourself and love ourself... THEN, we can love our neighbor like ourself.

I believe in you! I believe you are worth loving. You deserve to be treated with kindness, care and compassion. Let it start with you. Treat yourself with care!

Live LOVED. Hang in there friends. ⁣ I’m up...

Live LOVED. Hang in there friends.
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I’m up... asking God how do I battle?
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“Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good.
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Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle. Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant.
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Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.
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Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up.
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Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody. Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. “I’ll do the judging,” says God. “I’ll take care of it.”
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Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he’s thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don’t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.”
Romans 12:9-21 The Message

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to th

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
Desmond Tutu
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I wrestled for a long time up to my 20’s on what

I wrestled for a long time up to my 20’s on what I believed about God and what I wanted to do with my life. Did I believe? Do I want to serve God or money? Would Jesus be my spare tire or was I going to give him the wheel of my life?
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I was constantly testing out God’s ways verses the ways of the world. Living one foot on each path. I thought
sex = love
success = worth
control = power
With that version of love I always felt empty.
With that version of worth I was never enough.
With that version of power I could never let my guard down.
I was on a pendulum swinging from loved to empty, achieving to not enough, in charge to exhausted.
I had sin like a vine creeping around my legs. I couldn’t run free after God living a double life.
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I wanted to do life differently. I wanted a new master and I was drawn to the way of Jesus, the love of Jesus, and the life of Jesus. His definitions for love, worth and power were freeing. I made a decision in 3 parts.
1. I wanted Jesus to not only be my savior (spare tire) but to get the wheel and be my Lord.
2. I was going to serve God not money. I grew up thinking he who had the most gold ruled. But I knew first hand money doesn’t equal happiness, joy, or love. But it still felt counter intuitive and counter culture to choose God over money. But, I decided, I’d serve God for my whole life not money.
3. I believed the blood of Jesus would forgive me of my sins and make me a new creation in Christ. My father became God and I became a child of God. I wasn’t a better version of me, I was a new creation in Christ. The old was gone the new had come. I was 21 at CU Boulder and transforming. I got into a Bible study and started learning about Jesus and I learned of streams of living water.
Love = Sacrifice demonstrated by God sending his son & Jesus death on a cross
Worth = through faith in Christ I am now defined as a child of God. My worth is found in Him. Loved with a steadfast never ending love. Valuable created in His image and more precious than diamonds. Created with a purpose, knit together by God.
Power = humility It’s a deep trust in the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
That’s my story.

“I can’t wait to celebrate her!” “I’m pr

“I can’t wait to celebrate her!”
“I’m proud of her!”
“She deserves this!”
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That’s a beautiful friendship. Let’s be friends not rivals!
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Cheer her on! To do that you need to know you are loved! You are valuable! You matter! You are unique! She brings something beautiful to this life and so do you! Believe in her! Believe in you!
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You are created in the image of God! She is created in the image of God! Keep that as your rock solid foundation! LOVE....not with your strength, but through the love of Christ... we LOVE.

Instead of focusing on what not to do focus on wha

Instead of focusing on what not to do focus on what to do. Fill your time with good things. #youwerebornforsuchatimeasthis

Humble. Humility. Right in there is my word of the

Humble. Humility. Right in there is my word of the year. Why?
I can tell you now that over the next year I will grow in my understanding of the word Humility and my understanding of why I choose it.
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I recently listened to a book called Trusting God by Jerry Bridges. It’s a book I read in college and was foundational in my faith. I have always had issues trusting people in authority. I’m pretty good at questioning them, but trust for me takes a long time.
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I realized as I listened all these years later that new things stood out to me. I can confidently say I trust God. I believe He is good and safe enough to humble myself before him, submit to him and obey. Believing like a good Father he desires good for me and even better than an earthly father he is sovereign, omniscient and omnipresent. He desires me to be an imitator of his character. And I don’t have to fake it until I make it. He actually makes me a new creation. He takes me from a desert rose to an oak planted by a stream with deep roots and shelter for passers by. He teaches me the way of love, the perspective of joy, his peace in all circumstances, kindness from his spirit that goes beyond being kind to kind people and reaches deeply into the grit of kindness to even enemies, he requires my mind to know goodness, his faithfulness is able to reach through me and help me endure, he leads the way in gentleness, and by his strength and mind self control becomes a way of hope. When I am disciplined it’s not out if condemnation or disgust it’s in love. He’s like a good coach and I’m in training and if something in me is out of alignment he helps me to shift. Like a good chiropractor he adjusts my alignment.
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The opposite of humility is pride. Trust in self. Self promotion. Self focus. I’ve heard it a million times pride comes before the fall. Pride is so sneaky it. It’s default mode for most of us.
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Here’s to a year of learning about humility. To be humble. What we focus on expands. Already this word is popping up in my life. This is the verse I’m memorizing: Philippians 2:5-11 it talks about humility in an intense way! There’s an entire chapter on humility in the book I’m reading. Humbly carrying on.

I got this from a friend today.... made me 😢...

I got this from a friend today.... made me 😢.... we made these reusable stickers not knowing who would want them or how anyone would use them. This is made us both 😢. Yes, sweet girl! You can do hard things! This is tough, but you are tougher! Jennifer Shelton we are praying for your girl!

Michelle & I made 4 packs of reusable stickers with the hope they would be used to encourage. It’s about planting truth in our heart and mind in the middle of the battles we face. Grateful.

Happy Birthday Mailee!

Happy Birthday Mailee!

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