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.
Self-Care Redefined: Strategies for Nurturing Mental Wellness
Take your self-care journey to the next level by customizing practices to support mental wellness. Discover the nuanced approach to self-care that goes beyond the surface with our top tips for nurturing mental well-being, emotional balance, and overall health.
Is Life Passing You By?
That's a funny thing about time, it passes no matter what you do. But how you spend it makes a difference. It can move by slowly in the moment and yet feel like it moved at warp speed once you're through it. Read to learn how you can check in with yourself to make sure life isn’t just passing you by.
Small Experiments to Find Alignment in Your Life
Using lessons learned from a book hangover to start trying small experiments to create better alignment in life.
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.
4 Ways to Ask Yourself 'What-If'
What-if is one of the most powerful questions we can ask ourselves, especially when we start to get curious about our lives and wonder what kind of different paths it can take if we are willing to experiment with it a little.
It’s what fuels our curiosity to move forward and can be just the right nudge to start taking action in seeking out a life that lights us up. Read to learn how to use this small question to change your life in small, meaningful ways.
Listen to Your Teachers
Life teaches us things all the time. Practically anything can be turned into a lesson for your life experience. Read this short blog post about tips for all the ways different types of “teachers” show up in our lives and influence our personal growth journey.
Allow it to be easy
Show of hands, do you feel your life is hard, complicated?
No one wants to hear that it’s their own fault that things are the way they are, but it’s true.
Perfection over Perfect
Perfect or perfection?
Similar words, but can guide your life in wildly different ways.