Celebrating our Season of Harvest

Happy Halloween! A day where we dress up in costume, eat a TON of candy (that we probably wouldn’t eat any other time of year), and celebrate the spookiness of haunted houses and pumpkin patches. With all of this, there is a sense of magic in the air! With 2,000 years...

Taking the Time to Slow Down

Whew! It’s been a few months since there’s been a Joyna post- and gosh am I glad to be back!  Why the silence for a few months? Well, I’ll tell you- I took a literal break from all the writing by accidentally breaking a finger (or was it actually an accident?)...

The Achievements in Failing

Failure. An experience that is felt differently be each and every one of us. And yet, the one thing that is common for everybody is the uncomfortable feeling that we want to avoid because it can leave us feeling unfulfilled. Still, we fail. ALL THE TIME. Why do we...

5 Simple Ways to Declutter

Whenever we shift from Winter to Spring, many of us get the urge to declutter, clear the air, freshen up our living spaces, and dig ourselves out from under all of the stuff we’ve managed to accumulate in the cold months of Winter.  Perhaps it is an intrinsic...