Jana Sue

There are years that just take it out of you. Not in one big dramatic moment, but slowly, in layers, until you look up one day and realize you've been running on fumes for longer than you want to admit. Last year was that year for me, and I don’t want to sugarcoat it. It was, what I like to say, a shit show of glittery jam between a shit sandwich. There was grief, surgeries, a car accident, a flood, the loss of pets, the unexpected and devastating loss of a parent and lots of healing. ...

There’s a question I’ve been coming back to a lot lately. What are you carrying right now that isn’t yours? Because if you really stop and think about it, most of us are holding onto way more than we need to be. We’re carrying stress that belongs to someone else. We’re carrying problems that aren’t ours to solve.We’re holding onto things because we think we should. We are trying to figure everything out for someone else. And it’s heavy. You can feel it. In your shoulders. In your chest. That...

Whenever I hear the word “pivot" I always think of the Friends episode where they are trying to move a sofa up the staircase and Chandler repeatedly yells "Pivot! Pivot! PIVOT!!!!” I embrace and love the word “PIVOT.” I’m all about experimenting to see what works and what doesn’t work. It’s okay to go a different direction during your day(and life), even when you had a plan. Even when you had it all mapped out. This week is a good example of that for me. I had planned on writing content. I...