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Prune to Thrive: Week Two of the Change Reflection Series
🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Last week, we took our first steps toward embracing change. This week, we’re exploring the idea that our lives, much like a thriving rosebush, often produce more growth than we can sustain. 🌹 To truly flourish, we must prune. Pruning means letting go of: Things that no longer serve us. Things that are “good” but are taking up space for something great. This isn’t
Renate Stoiber
Dec 13, 20241 min read


Day 1 Reflection: Prune to Thrive
🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. 🌟 Today, we’re starting our journey into the practice of pruning—letting go of what holds us back so we can grow and thrive. 🌱 It’s neither an easy nor a quick process, so we’re starting with a simple but powerful question to ease our hearts and minds into the idea: 💭 How does the idea of pruning make you feel? 🌱 ❤️ Take a moment and let your heart speak to you. �
Renate Stoiber
Dec 12, 20241 min read


Day 2 Reflection: Prune to Thrive
🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Yesterday, we began exploring pruning by reflecting on how the idea makes us feel. Today, we’re taking it a step further, diving into the different types of pruning that apply not only to plants but also to our lives. In his book Necessary Endings, Dr. Henry Cloud highlights three categories of branches we may need to prune: 🌿 Healthy branches that are good but not
Renate Stoiber
Dec 11, 20241 min read


Day 3 Reflection: Prune to Thrive
🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. We're still working on getting used to the idea of pruning in our lives. 🌹 As we’ve discussed, our lives often produce more growth than we can sustain. To complicate things further, our resources—time, energy, finances, talent, and emotions—are all finite. To allow our lives to truly flourish, something has to go. But where to begin? Let’s try a visualization exercis
Renate Stoiber
Dec 10, 20241 min read


Final Day Reflection: Prune to Thrive
Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ Happy Friday! 🎉 We’ve reached the final day of this week’s journey into the concept of pruning our lives. Yesterday’s reflection was a big one. I’ll admit—it wasn’t just one question; it was a cluster of deeply related, and yes, hard questions. So today, let’s take more time to sit with those same reflections. Sometimes, the deeper insights come when we revisit
Renate Stoiber
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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