HeyJaredOf Light and Joy
Bringing your relationship the light and joy to shine again. A Relationship Substack with Christa Hardin
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Reaching for One Another (opens the original)
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When I work with couples, I get so many ideas for how to do my job better, and lately I’ve really noticed how helpful new attachment scripts are in marriage work - connecting language is everything. We get flooded - after all, it’s hard to open up when you’re feeling scared or angry, on the defensive.Then, even though we want our relationship to thrive, we are afraid to speak up or we do speak up courageously (yay for that) but then we forget what to say.When we get tongue-tied as humans, whethe
Subscribers Only: The Gift of Getting Back on Track (opens the original)
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This morning was beautiful, and I drew it in on a nice one mile jog with Jack, my (now very tall all of the sudden) son. Well, we started together, and within half a mile, he was moving into level 2. And as I settled into my pacing, I was grateful for all I’d come through this morning already.We’d just come through a very big weekend. Lots of emotion, p… Read more
Beholding Beauty Matters (opens the original)
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“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker CreekLast week, I missed the bloom of my beautiful moonflowers. You may remember me writing when I was planting them, or when I saw the first bloom, and since then there have been several more exciting moments. However, sometimes I miss the one-night-only gorgeous show that each bloom gives.
How Layered Artistry Disarmingly Brings us Back to Ourselves and Each Other (opens the original)
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Hello friends, and happy Friday, It’s Cozy Mysteries season again, and for me, that means it’s not only Gilmore Girls season starting this Sept 22 if my girls and I get the seasonal timing just right, but currently, and we’re right on track, it’s Only Murders in the Building Season. We just finished Season 4, which means we have only one season left to binge until the new London winter season begins.Why the obsession? I’m not a TV fanatic. I didn’t even have a TV in college for awhile because my
A Lesson on Shadow from Shakespeare (opens the original)
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Jack and I are studying Shakespeare this year, and I’m remembering my own foray into his great works, most recently, as we read about Macbeth. I laughed as I relayed and remembered the tale of my husband Wes and I and my best friend Irene at the time all having to play the three hags for our AP Lit class senior year. I remember we were all busy, but we managed on the night before the assignment to video the scene in his barn, which was so much fun, though we groaned and had no idea it would one
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