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.Honor Your Journey
How did I get here?
We get caught up in the minutia of the day to day that we lose perspective of the path that got us here.
Our eyes focused on what’s right in front of us. Read why it’s important to reflect on and honor your journey.
Remember what you love
When was the last time you did something just because it was fun?
Because it lit something up inside you?
Do you even know what would be on that list?
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.
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.
Living Bravely
The theme of the week has been brave and all the different ways we can be brave.
The biggest kinds of brave are the ones that you face every day. The choices you make everyday in how you show up in the world.
Be Brave with Your Life
What does brave look like?
Make a list of what you think brave looks like.
And then let’s talk about what bravery really looks like in your life.