Trusting your gut is about balance—honoring your intuition without dismissing logic.
About Deborah Holmen
How Gardening Fuels Personal Growth
By tending your inner garden with the same care you give your plants, you cultivate resilience and focus.
By tending your inner garden with the same care you give your plants, you cultivate resilience and focus.
Embracing Nature’s Wisdom: A Journey of Growth
Growth isn’t always visible, but it’s happening beneath the surface.
Growth isn’t always visible, but it’s happening beneath the surface.
Building Strong and Healthy Relationships: Essential Healthy Relationships Tips
These aren't revolutionary. But they work.
These aren’t revolutionary. But they work.
Unlock Personal Growth After Trauma: Trauma Growth Strategies That Work
Trauma changes everything.
Trauma changes everything.
Building Stronger Bonds Through Parenting: Strategies for Families
What can a parent do to set their child up for success?
What can a parent do to set their child up for success?
Empowering Wellness Through Health Knowledge: How a Professional Ghostwriter Can Inspire Your Wellness Journey
Health knowledge empowerment is more than a buzzword.
Health knowledge empowerment is more than a buzzword.
Dear Next Chapter: How Do I Navigate My Friendships When I Can’t be Happy for Them Right Now? ~ Lonely in Transition
How to support a friend’s happiness while honoring your own healing.
How to support a friend’s happiness while honoring your own healing.
Dear Next Chapter, Is Feeling Jealous of a Late Spouse Normal?
Sometimes, I think I’m competing with a ghost! ~ Haunted by Comparison
Sometimes, I think I’m competing with a ghost! ~ Haunted by Comparison
How to Build a Thriving Marriage When the Past Is Always Present
I’ve found that empathy is essential.
I’ve found that empathy is essential.
Dear Next Chapter: I Made a Promise I Now Must Break to My Adult Children?
How do I handle the mess? ~ Promise bound but breaking free.
How do I handle the mess? ~ Promise bound but breaking free.
Dear Next Chapter: Should I Move Back Home After a Year of Loneliness?
~ Transplanted but not taking root.
~ Transplanted but not taking root.
Dear Next Chapter: I Feel Like an Outsider When I’m With His Grieving Family
How do I balance my needs with theirs? ~ Feeling Left Out
How do I balance my needs with theirs? ~ Feeling Left Out
My New Partner Is a Phoenix, and His Adult Children Treat Me Like I’m a Homewrecker.
How do I win them over — or do I even try? ~ Phoenix Lover
How do I win them over — or do I even try? ~ Phoenix Lover
Dear Next Chapter: My Widowed Boyfriend and I Want to Go Public, but His Family Is Still Grieving.
How do we break the news? ~ Hidden Chapter
How do we break the news? ~ Hidden Chapter
Mother Nature’s Message to Parents: Her Winter Wisdom
Use the earlier evenings as an opportunity for family storytelling time.
Use the earlier evenings as an opportunity for family storytelling time.