Prefer fewer emails? Click here to stay subscribed but stop receiving monthly updates. Feeling all the feels...is impossible. Just when we started feeling so good again (sun! flowers! summer coming!) May hits us like a freight train. And it's a freight train barreling out of control toward our souls, filled with complicated things like Mother's Day, birthdays, end of school hooplas, teacher appreciation, graduations, awards assemblies and all the other life stuff that keeps life-ing us while...

So much of our perspective is shaped by our own story. What we embrace, what we reject, what we believe are a response to the good or a reaction to the bad that we ourselves have experienced in life. One of the great shaping influences in my own life is being the middle-big sister to two brothers--my brother Matt, 14 months younger--and my brother Steve, who joined our family in 1983, when I was seven and he was a toddler. He was adopted into our military family, the beloved caboose in our...

Welcome new friends from recent speaking engagements at Camp Berea, Victory Life and Lake Forest! So glad you have you here! I send a little encouragement monthly(ish)--hope it's helpful to you! Real Talk with Nicole. Let's be real together in this wonderful, beautiful, difficult thing we call life. Lots of time on my feet to prep for the upcoming Marathon with Revelation Wellness Walking can be a spiritual discipline of its own. I would love to say that I'm a person who does well with "quiet...