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From me to you: a blog without a title
How do you tell someone that you are actually okay with where you are? How do you admit that you were always convinced that you wouldn’t marry until you were at least 30? More importantly, how do you...
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A different kind of me
So, it’s January 26th (I think?) and today I’m writing about my new year’s resolution. My journal for the year, the personal one, the one that is filled with inspirations, doubts, dreams, broken...
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When the Night was Total Darkness
I won’t lie, I still watch young adult TV all the time. For me, watching television and film are one of the few ways I can completely switch off my brain and relax. It is my often my escape. I follow...
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She Stopped Living in Tomorrow and Started Living for Today
I got home last night after having traveled for more than 24 hours. Las Vegas to Los Angeles to London and home to Stockholm. In total I have been away from home more in the last two months than I have...
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Dating in the age of Tinder
I can recall the first time that I was asked on a date. I got off the phone with B and my father, of all people said, so “you’re going on a date, eh?” I looked at him, befuddled at best, shocked...
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A Restored Heart
It was only a few weeks, maybe two months into my life in Sweden when my dear friend, who lives in New Zealand, insisted on Skyping with me. My move to Sweden, whilst actually much more carefully...
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To be Vulnerable
It was 2012 and my break up was very fresh. I was sat in a pub in Notting Hill Gate (one that still makes me flinch a little as I walk by on visits to my former home) with two beautiful friends of...
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A Question of Integrity
When referring to a person, integrity is defined as having a quality of being honest or fair. It can also be seen as sticking to a moral code. I have been thinking a lot about integrity lately. One of...
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Paper Bag Princess Syndrome
One of my favourite books ever written is a children’s story. The Paper Bag Princess still sits on my shelf today, waiting for one day when I have a daughter and I, or her father can read it to her as...
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He Fights for Me
It was back in elementary/primary school when a boy tried to bully me. According to my family I hit him in the stomach and told him he couldn’t do that. Firm on the understanding of who(se) I was, I...
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In the Midst of the Waves
I thought about writing this when I had gotten the job, but then it made me think… How many blogs, articles and books have been written once we have gotten whatever it is that we wanted? How many...
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We Danced
In our high school athletics were very important. We all took phys. ed. Everything from volleyball to badminton, cross country and weight training. 2-3 to days a week you were sweating alongside your...
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One day a girl got off a plane…
Processed with VSCOcam with p2 preset When I was eight years old I walked up to my mother and asked, innocently, “Mama, can I please go to boarding school in Switzerland?” The answer was, of course,...
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The Problem with Perfection
“Your sorrows today will help in somebody’s tomorrow.” Charlotte Gambill spoke about this a couple weeks ago in church. Well, actually she mentioned it in passing and it was such a strong reminder of...
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A Beautiful Mess (or the post I cried writing)
I used to write more frequently for a company called So Worth Loving. Because it was a place that perpetuated, believed in, was based on your self worth and loving others, the raw, unabridged words...
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Cause I’m Gonna Make This Place Your Home (Or a love letter to Stockholm)
for the blog depaysement Daniel Dalton, buzzfeed unsplash.com “Var kommer du ifrån?” She asked. He said *just tell her you’re from Liljeholmen“ It’s taken three years. After three years of living in...
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How to be a Badass
2015. You really surprised me. You brought some of the most challenging moments of my entire life. You stripped me bare. You revealed parts of me that I had hidden away and some I had never known. You...
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I don’t do Resolutions, per se (or how I will spend 1 January)
About eight years ago I started a tradition. I take a day, early in the new year, or just before the clock turns past 12 and write the vision. Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write the vision And...
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An Unapologetic Year
“You know what attracted you to me? The way you don’t apologise for who you are” That was 4 years ago and somewhere between that conversation, all the moments, circumstances and conversations past,...
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My Year of Changing the Way I Worship
I remember it so distinctly. I was at a conference that my church puts on yearly, in different cities around the world. I had flown in to this particular city to serve on team, the people around me,...
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