Are you living to work, or working to live? Here’s how and why I step away from my business for days at a time, without sacrificing my client experience or my sanity.

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We all come programmed with a biological drive to categorize things in order to make sense of them. And if something can't be easily categorized somewhere or labeled as something, it causes chaos and discomfort. Even within ourselves. But the truth is… we are NOT one-dimensional creatures, and it kinda sucks when we get pegged that way.

After the gifts had been unwrapped and the dinner devoured, my dad and uncle would break out the Wild Turkey bourbon, pouring shots and taking turns toasting to all the stuff that had happened that year. And now that my dad has passed, it's MY turn to carry on his tradition…

She craved just one afternoon of normalcy + delight... where she could hang out with her daughter, bond over sandy cartwheels + ice cream cones, stroke her daughter's hair , share silly stories, and just BE.

This mother/daughter photo session happened almost 10 years ago, and it's still on my mind…