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& a few of the lovely mentions Live Simply has received across the interwebs...

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Instagram post 2195237018375391814_144970671 Sugar and spice and everything ruthlessly edited and simply organized and easily maintained. There, fixed it.
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Instagram post 2189473562997128845_144970671 After I moved out of my parents’ house, there was a time when returning for visits was terribly depressing. Everything that’s hard about being there (chronic illness and the chaos that goes along with it) would smack me in the face upon entry, and I would wilt away like lettuce.

Eventually, I realized my reaction wasn’t doing anyone any good, and I vowed from that moment on that I would bring the sunshine. Everything that had been depleted by sustained struggle, I would replenish. I would see the skies, always shifting and threatening, and I would resist their darkening effects. I would give what was needed.

The world is full of sourpusses and extremely difficult situations. One of the hardest tasks in life is to remember that those people and scenarios which seem to deserve or emit light the least require it most.

But the only way to provide light is to make it your mission to hold the light within you. To love yourself and always work on loving yourself more. Be intentional about the words and images you consume, and the substances you eat. Meditate if that’s your jam. Exercise if you have a body. Get your derriere into therapy. Say no sans internal turmoil. Fan the flames of your weird and divine spirit with precisely what it desires and nothing that it doesn’t until the light cannot be extinguished by an encounter with a hostile guy in the grocery line, or a friend’s manipulation tactics, or your mom’s having repeated, unexplainable seizures, naked in the shower.

Give yourself what you need so you can give what’s needed to the world around you. Unburden your heart and home of every last thing that feels unnecessary to carry any longer.

In the darkest room, under the most violent skies, do not be perturbed. Feel light. Give light. Be light.
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Instagram post 2187279272367825132_144970671 Thankful for every recycling bin I’ve been lucky enough to stomp in. For every client brave enough to face the truth of their past decisions and make Simpler ones moving forward.

That I magically ended up as one of the Luckiest ones, who has the privilege of attending daily to my true life’s work, is the blessing for which I will never manage to express the depth of my gratitude.

Thankful my body works at my whim. Thankful for my teeth. (Teeth, you know?!) Thankful for chocolate and coffee and washing machines and hand sanitizer and really bougie salt and every Simple pleasure.

Thankful for my people. My family—slightly haggard and rag tag and resilient as we are—my friends, who might as well be family, and thankful for you, too.

Take every Thing, but leave me my people, oh merciful world. In the end, and right now, they are all that truly matters.
Instagram post 2180960491836055014_144970671 “It’s so pretty in here!” He exclaims.

We’ve just finished editing the playroom he plays in, streamlining the toys to the absolutest essentials, and we’re maybe just the tiniest bit nervous about how he’ll react.

He returns home from school, bounds up the stairs, his 3.5 year old footsteps hardly making a sound on the carpeted steps. Except he’s done us the favor of alerting us to his presence; “It’s just me comin’ up!” We all watch him as he takes in the Simplified space. (Will he notice the things not there anymore? Will he whine? Cry? Throw a fit?)
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He skips around the room. He touches objects on shelves appreciatively. He makes a beeline for the newest addition to the play stuff, a little clay-and-hammer-thing that his mom predicted he would love. “It’s so pretty in here!” He delights, clapping his hands and smiling.

His reaction solidifies all that we know is true: that childhood is Simple in its purest state. That in youth the small, seemingly ordinary things elicit great wonder. That it’s the grown ups who have gotten it all screwy, thinking it’s loving and right to complicate and overwhelm what was always meant to be, best kept Simple.
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