Author: Jillian Benfield

Focus On Your Feet

Focus on your feet. A friend of mine is going through one of the hardest periods of her life—caring for her husband with cancer. She

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Give Them the Better Toast

Give them the better toast. When a family member asked our great-grandfather the secret to being happily married for over 50 years, he said, “Well,

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I’m Just A …

I’m just a… I found myself saying this in an email recently. Why do we do this? Why do we downplay what we do? Is

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Let It Go

Let it go. My daughter lost her front tooth today. By lost, I mean, there was a lot of crying leading up to her dad

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Don’t Wait to be Invited

Don’t wait to be invited. Another mom I met only once before messaged me recently to say her child with an invisible disability was struggling

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