Firefly Scout Field Notes
This is where I share field notes from the work of navigating a complex, heart-led life, blending personal experience with practical insight.
You’ll find thoughtful essays, practical frameworks, and experience-based guidance — rooted in real life, nervous-system awareness, and pattern noticing.
These aren’t personal diary entries or quick takes. They’re reflections meant to help you orient, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and move forward with more clarity and ease.
Take what’s useful. Leave the rest.
How to Make and Maintain Friendships
This change of season has gotten me thinking about friendships, those new and old (or silver and gold as the song goes), and wanting to invest in them more this season. Read this blog post for easy ways to make and maintain friends as an adult, especially as a busy mom.
Showing up- reflections on 1000-day streak of promises to myself
I would describe myself as mom, small business owner, avid reader, Gilmore girls fan, and nature lover. But a streaker… Nope.
Yet starting a streak didn’t come out of nowhere. Read how the streak of daily fitness promises led to unexpected self improvement.
All You Bring to the Table
This time of year is about coming together as friends and family, sharing our favorite memories, holiday favorites and creating new memories together. Read for the simple process to name all that you bring to the table.
Rethink your to-do list & live a life that lights you up
Do you feel like you always have 10,000 things to do? Between family needs, work demands, bucket list dreams and the general day to day, the list feels endless. And that leads to the feeling of overwhelm. Which leads to basically throwing in the towel and just tackling whatever is most in your face. Read on for a strategy to tame the overwhelm.
Rethink your to-do list
Do you feel like you have 10,000 things on your to do list?
Between the day to day family stuff, work tasks, personal needs and bucket list desires, the list can feel overwhelming.
One thing I’ve learned to lean into is to pay attention to my energy and mindset. Read more to see how you can use this too.
Take something off your plate
Are you feeling a little overloaded lately?
Of course you are. It’s our nature to add “just one more thing” to our plates. Read on to learn the secret to reducing the overwhelm.
Tips to Connect Your Dots
Stuck for inspiration on how to connect your dots?
We don’t all have a magic fairy godmother making our wishes come true with a couple of mice and a pumpkin.
4 Tips to Tame Your Struggle and Use your Time Better
You have an amazing talent to somehow get everything done that needs done. You pull off miracles everyday with ease that others would struggle with. And you make sh*t happen even when it doesn't feel easy. But we can all use a few tips to help make getting it all done with more alignment so you can thrive.