Sometimes Excuses Are Truths

Sometimes Excuses Are Truths

A friend texted me last night and asked me how book #2 was coming. It's not, I replied. I racked my brain searching for a reason, and I had plenty, but they all sounded like excuses. Because they...

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When Backwards is Forward

When Backwards is Forward

I'm scared down to my bones. And it feels so good. I spent Sunday night googling Mercury in Retrograde at my kitchen counter with Amanda. She'd been hearing about it all over the place, and...

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I’ll Keep Trying

I’ll Keep Trying

When I'd get broken up with in middle and high school, because I always did, I would lock myself in my bedroom and blare sad breakup songs. I'd let the feelings of loss and sadness, inadequacy and...

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Confidence Comes From Doing

Confidence Comes From Doing

I don't know exactly where this mindset came from, I'm sure I'll find out after spending a 100 hours on a therapist's couch, but I grew up with this mindset that I'd already lost. I would see people...

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Tiny Decisions

Tiny Decisions

At a complete loss on how to deal with a situation, I spent a lot of time with myself, inside my head. I pulled out the adult coloring book I promised myself I'd color in weekly that hadn't been...

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Where Has the Kindness Gone?

Where Has the Kindness Gone?

When I was in high school, a girl I was only kind of friends with was diagnosed with a rare condition that affected her kidneys. It was a situation that might land her in need of a transplant. I...

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HI, I'M JOEY

 Mama, indie author, wife, believer and friend.

My only hope is that while you’re here, you feel a sense of belonging, comfort and empowerment. Because life is too short to live it worried you’re not good enough.

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