by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 19, 2020 | Marriage, personality, relationships, staying in love, stress
Y’know that feeling when you’re in one of the stressed, worst versions of yourself? That was me a weekend ago. I had a million reasons. But as the sun sank on Sunday, it was obvious I was falling into classic unhealthy patterns of my personality type....
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 8, 2020 | children, compassion, Family, helping others, Ideas, kids, methods, Parenting, poverty, tweens and teens
My husband and I recently slipped through the mountains on the way home from a soccer game, the sun at our foreheads. The conversation meandered toward politics, then toward economic issues. I confessed to him that as a buyer, correcting ethical issues through my...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 3, 2020 | Culture, Ideas
Missed Part 1 on writing? Grab it here. The English teacher of my junior year could have, at varying points in the year, landed squarely in both “Wisest Writing Mentor” and “She Needs a Pat on the Back…Off a Cliff” categories. She...
by Janel Breitenstein | Sep 26, 2020 | Ideas, work
The first time I met her, I entered my friend Kristen’s shop jittery as a triple espresso. She’s a multi-published author who didn’t know me from scrambled eggs. A mutual friend simply knew my resume, knew I was beginning a blog. I was on...
by Janel Breitenstein | Sep 18, 2020 | challenging, difficulty, discouragement, encouragement, failure, faith, fear, God's will
That day, in the whirlwind of working with kids at home, I received the kind of email I felt in my chest. Bad news. I heard my respiration accelerate as my fingers curled the counter’s edge. My daughter watched my face, then looked at the screen. My literary agent: So...
