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    Mother & Daughter

    10 things to write in a mother-daughter journal this week

    April 4, 2026 /

    My daughter is a ball of energy; she is 7. When she comes home from school, I am often working. Being a freelancer is fun, but you still have work and deadlines every day. I spend some time asking her about her day at school, and sometimes all I get is, “School was fun, or we had so much to write”. But I wanted small girls’ gossip. I wanted to know all about kids these days, what they like, what they play. But I think she doesn’t have the energy to say it all at once. She tells me these things in increments. She shares these at the most random…

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  • Intention & Life

    Intentional Living Starts Before Your First Coffee

    August 22, 2025 /

    What is the first thing we do as soon as we wake up? The first thing most of us reach for in the morning is our phone. Not because we mean to. Not because we have consciously decided that the best use of the first minutes of our day is scrolling through notifications that accumulated while we slept. It is just the automatic motion that the morning has trained itself into. Alarm goes off, hand reaches sideways, screen lights up, and before we are fully awake, we are already reactive. Already responding to the world’s agenda rather than our own. I know this pattern well because I lived it for…

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    A Mother-Daughter Journal

    May 6, 2024 /

    Some weeks, my daughter and I barely scratch the surface. School, dinner, homework, bed. The days move fast, and the conversations stay shallow, not because we don’t care, but because we don’t have a structure that invites something deeper. That’s exactly why I built this journal. Not as a grand gesture. Just as a small, weekly ritual that gives us both a reason to slow down and actually talk Why A Mother-Daughter Journal? A guided journal gives you an easy starting point when you don’t know what to talk about but still want to connect. With thoughtful prompts, quotes, and short activities, it gently nudges both mom and daughter to…

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