With each year that goes by, this all means a little bit more. It's so worth the [sometimes very] hard work. What a beautiful life.
The Giovagnoni: 2025 Wrap Up
Reflections on a Year: 2024 in Review
It's the last day of the year, so time to reflect. So much good. But of course that's not all the year held.
My Marvelous Present
I'm giving myself a gift for my 46th birthday today. And it might just be the best gift I've ever received.
On Life’s Big Moments and Staying Present in My Body
I've always just said I'm not a happy crier. I don't get emotional in those big important life moments. But I'm otherwise so emotion driven, that explanation never made sense. Turns out, there's a lot more going on...
There’s a Story Deeper Still
As I continue to encounter people with marriages in crisis, I've felt compelled to write again about my marriage. Because there's a piece that I haven't yet shared in the telling of our own marriage story.
Recapturing My Wild
"Beauty is what we knew to be true of us before we unlearned it."
-Beth Bruno
How telling my story opened the door to healing my heart.
In the unfolding story of my life, this year might be considered the turning point. Some may call this deconstruction. Or reckoning or mid-life or maturity. Whatever the case, this year my eyes were opened.
100 Things I’m Thankful for This Year
A list of 100 things I'm thankful for this year, in no particular order. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
The Stories I Tell
Once upon a time there was a little girl who, as she grew up, discovered that her heart came alive as she engaged with her story and learned how to share it.
The Box
The thing about pain is that it doesn't go away when it's ignored. It gets hidden, stuffed away in a box at the very back of the heart's closet and for a while forgotten about. But it always finds its way out eventually.
These Words of Mine 