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2020 Year-in-Review

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Top 9 Photos of 2020

2020 Year-in-Review

Favorite Quote

If we don’t wrestle with anger, we never get to the heartbreak. and if we don’t get to the heartbreak, we don’t get to the healing.

-Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage

Things Our Family Loved Doing Together

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Kaden Open Mic 2020

  • Playing D&D
  • TV: Bob’s Burgers, Blackish, Ted Lasso
  • Walks in our new neighborhood
  • Snuggling on the amazing giant couch
  • Watching the birds and squirrels, trying to befriend the crows
  • Singing along to Hamilton (still!)
  • Re-reading the ‘Shit Kids Say’ list
  • Playing Superfight
  • Watching Couper watch ‘his show’ (the fireplace)
  • Happy Hour with Gramma Patti and Poppy
  • Monday Night Open Mic
  • Table Topics questions during dinner
  • Family Snapchat group
  • Sharing Daily Sky Pics

Books Read

My goal was that over 50% of my books read this year be written by authors who were not cis white males. I got to 69%! Working on increasing this percentage for 2021. 

Are you a book-lover? Connect with me on Goodreads!

  1. Pilgrimage of a Soul, Phileena Heurtz
  2. The Book of Job
  3. Sulwe, Lupita Nyong’o
  4. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
  5. Change-able, J. Stuart Ablon
  6. Breaking Up With Sugar, Molly Carmel
  7. 2020 My Shining Year Life Goals Workbook, Leonie Dawson
  8. Outrageous Openness, Tosha Silver
  9. Fasting, Feasting, Freedom, Kim Smith
  10. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  11. Drop The Stones, Carlos A Rodriguez
  12. The Enneagram of Belonging, Chris Heurtz
  13. The Enneagram of Belonging Workbook
  14. You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas
  15. The Bright Side of a Broken Heart, Michelle D’Avella
  16. Untamed, Glennon Doyle
  17. Self-Inflicted Wounds, Aisha Taylor
  18. Psalms
  19. How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
  20. Let It Out: A journey through journaling, Katie Dalebout
  21. True Self, False Self, Richard Rohr
  22. Prayer: Forty Days of Practice, Scott Erickson + Justin McRoberts
  23. Burnout: The secret to unlocking the stress cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski
  24. The Little Book of Letting Go, Hugh Prather
  25. Getting to Center, Marlee Grace
  26. You’re a Miracle (and a pain in the ass), Mike McHargue

Most Influential Book I Read

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle book cover. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Emily Nagoski, PhD. Amelia Nagoski, DMA. tag: 2020 year-in-review

Get the Cliff’s Notes/warmup version from Brene Brown on Unlocking Us.

Favorite Show of The Year

This was another spot-on recommendation from Brene Brown, heard on Unlocking Us.

Ted Lasso

Most Played Song

You Say, Lauren Daigle

Favorite Podcast

I couldn’t choose just one!!!

Favorite Musical Discovery

The Highwomen


What were your favorites of 2020?

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Photo by Neven Krcmarek

100 Things for 2019

Photo of the clouds and orange sunset. "Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt"

I’m working through my Shining Year Workbooks, savoring every little bit of them, and am having so much fun dreaming into the little and big things I want to experience this year. My list grows daily, and I hope it will never be finished.

Can you help me get to 100?

100 60 Things for 2019

  1. Make a Life Book
  2. Get a dog
  3. Hand-letter something to hang on the wall
  4. Move >5 minutes a day
  5. Read 50 books
  6. Fix the Singer sewing machine
  7. Take a personal retreat
  8. Marry my best friend
  9. Stop using paper towels
  10. Make a collage card for each member of my family (Soul Collage-style)
  11. Take a road trip to a new place
  12. See live comedy
  13. Get a tattoo
  14. Give monthly
  15. Take a dance lesson with Chris
  16. Sunbathe nude
  17. Soak at The Everett House
  18. Learn harmony to a new song with Chris & Kylin
  19. Use Chris’ digital drawing pad
  20. Write a (work)book
  21. Learn a new art technique
  22. Record more of Grandma’s stories
  23. Visit Garden Valley
  24. Get my eyes checked (1/10/19 – 20/20 vision!)
  25. Rock the big project I’m working on
  26. Go to a Blazer game
  27. Make stickers and give them away
  28. Frame and hang some photos
  29. Get a new (to-me) van
  30. Keep my aloe plant alive
  31. Grow herbs on my balcony
  32. Give my family Aromatouch massages
  33. Visit a hot springs
  34. Have a pedicure
  35. Contribute monthly to my retirement
  36. Spend a day floating and reading on the water
  37. Star-gaze
  38. Hike a new trail
  39. Win at HQ
  40. Do a backbend
  41. Knit a hat
  42. Get an outdoor family hobby or ritual
  43. Float
  44. Get acupuncture
  45. Make fire cider
  46. Canvas for a political candidate I support
  47. Decorate the wall over the couch
  48. Go snowshoeing
  49. Practice more stillness with my kids
  50. Make a snowman
  51. Make dairy-free snow cream
  52. Watch an eclipse
  53. Go to the movies in my pajamas
  54. Finish B-School
  55. Fully fund my budget for the year
  56. Volunteer at Sisters of the Road
  57. Release a new Burnout Proof Academy course
  58. Spend a week at Brownlee
  59. Swim in the ocean
  60. Blog once a week

Tell me dear one,

What do you want to experience this year?

So much love to you.xo, Breana