This is the stage where you keep moving upward, knowing growth is a lifelong journey with no finish line. Here you’ll find inspiration, challenges, and practical tools to help you keep becoming – stronger, wiser, and more open to what is ahead.
One Year In September marks the one-year anniversary for The Held Edge. I spent all summer working on the website, learning and doing things with technology I never thought I could do, but there I sat ready to hit post, excited and terrified. Yes, this was exciting, but putting content out there, for the world…
The Price of Being Cheap (And It Wasn’t Money) This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share things I actually use and believe in. Recently, I read and discussed the book I Will Teach You to Be…
Overcoming the “I Don’t Want To” Over the past few weeks, it has been hard to look at any social media and not see stories about the World Cup held here in North America. And in those posts, it’s likely you came across Erling Haaland, a Norwegian soccer player. His smiles, kindness, and goofy antics…
The Book I’m Handing My Teenager This Summer: “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” A Financial Literacy Book That Works for Beginners & Late Bloomers Alike This post contains affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission if you purchase through my links — at no extra cost to you. I only…
I Didn’t Know I Needed a Room Like That A beginner’s honest experience with restorative and yin yoga. The moment I walked in the door, the beautiful scent of incense hit me. Not the kind that makes you cough – something warm, earthy, and immediately calming. A comforting room greeted me. All the fear of…
Responsibility Without Shame “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”— Maya Angelou A Note on Timing Whether you’re new here or have been reading for a while, one thing guides everything I write: healing and growth happen in stages. Some ways of coping are necessary when…
Choosing Depth Over Volume: Books I’m Reading This Year For many years, I’ve found myself with a long wish-list of books to read — only to see them still sitting on my shelf or in my cart years later. Thus, leaving me feeling like a failure yet again. This year, I’m choosing depth over volume….
What It Looks Like to Maintain When Life Is Heavy When the New Year Doesn’t Feel Like a Clean Slate This time of year tends to ask for reinvention. New plans, new goals, new habits. There’s a quiet pressure to fix what didn’t work last year and to come out of the gate doing something…
When Escape Stops Helping There is a difference between activities we use to escape and those that help us grow — even though both can look like taking a break. Scrolling your phone for a few minutes to decompress isn’t the same as losing hours because you don’t want to feel or deal with life….
Why Healing Alone Is Just the Beginning You don’t outgrow triggers — you grow through them. I remember sitting in January 2022, realizing I had been “alone” for four years.There’d been a situationship — more comfort than growth — but for the most part, it was me, my trauma, and the work.The kind of quiet…