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.

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The Word Nerd's Path to Self-Awareness: Discover What Lights Up Your Life

Feeling stuck in life? Discover the joy of being a word nerd and how unearthing what I love about language can show you how to go down your own rabbit holes of knowledge and learn express yourself in unique ways. And learn how to start your own journey of embracing your true self and find your glow through things you can incorporate into your daily life.

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The Trouble with Gratitude

It’s getting time for my annual desire to rewatch Love Actually. It’s not technically a Christmas movie, but it takes place over the holidays and captures the range of emotions and experiences that this time of year can bring up. Read more about how gratitude is a prickly subject for me and tips on how you can better embrace it yourself.

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Wishes are Like Spells

Wishes seem to be one of the most common ways we ask for change on a near daily basis.

Wishing for more… time, money, self-love. Wishing for new… habits, outlook, life

Read to find out how to use wishes to remember the magic within you.

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