by SB Rawz | Nov 25, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
I knew a woman who did all the gratitude practices – the journals and songs and dinnertime rituals with the kids and more – who seemed basically miserable to me. I spent a good bit of time mulling over that paradox: How can a person so intentional in her... by SB Rawz | Oct 26, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
The whole gremlin thing, it’s a way of bringing some levity and accessibility to a really challenging part of ourselves. I realized, as I stood before groups of students at the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School last week, that sometimes, I let that levity lull me into... by SB Rawz | Jul 7, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
LinkedIn. It’s the less sexy cousin of, well, all the other big-name social media sites. While all the big drama and shiny pictures are filling feeds elsewhere, posts on LinkedIn tend to be in keeping with the intention of the site: Professional. Most of us are pretty... by SB Rawz | Jan 28, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
I have a friend with a book idea he’s been noodling on for the last few years. It’s a memoir of sorts, focused on his journey from being raised in the church in the way many people are – with a sense of belonging without a whole lot of intentionality – and how he came... by SB Rawz | Jan 7, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
I lived in rural Floyd County, Virginia, for nine years. Living rurally means frequent deer encounters, groundhogs living under outbuildings, and not-infrequent gifts of mice and moles left by the outdoor cats (and, yes, occasionally the indoor ones, too). In my first... by SB Rawz | Dec 31, 2018 | Bigger Badder Life
I’m a long-time year-end planner and I’ve gone about it a pile of ways. I’ll save you the gory details except to say that I’ve found that having a lot of those such details didn’t make me more productive or more capable of achieving anything. Instead, it mostly just...