Lifestyle

Five Healthy Habits for 2020

Church of the Highlands senior pastor Chris Hodges believes in the power of having five healthy habits that you practice every day. So does author, motivational speaker and blogger Rachel Hollis. She even has a name for this — “five to strive.”

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Currently

Pop culture and everyday life are great sources of inspiration for blog posts, articles, essays, and more. That’s why I love sharing with you what I’m currently watching, writing, reading, listening to, loving, feeling, and planning. Here’s the latest edition of Currently!

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Making Friends As an Adult is Hard — Unless You’re a Blogger

Have you ever thought about how hard it is to make new friends as an adult? When we were kids we could just walk up to another kid on the playground and ask her if she wanted to join us on the monkey bars or the swings and a friendship was forged. Later you’d invite her over for a sleepover and you’d eat junk food, share secrets, or try to figure out how to put on makeup.

But once I traded pigtails for pencil skirts making new friends got tough — that is until I started blogging.

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Why I’ve Never Called Myself a Christian Writer

I am a Christian and I am a writer. But I have never, ever called myself a Christian writer. 

So when I was invited to speak at the Southern Christian Writers Conference this summer I was reluctant to accept. Eventually, though, I said yes, but I was sure I’d spend the entire weekend feeling like a fraud. 

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