Author: Kerri Elizabeth

Purpose Lives in Small Decisions

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“Direction is built quietly, choice by choice.”

Purpose is not a grand declaration.
It’s a series of small, intentional decisions made while no one is watching, or they are.

What you choose today shapes the season ahead, not dramatically, but steadily.
Small steps carry surprising power.


One step,
taken on purpose
changes the whole
direction of the path.

Purposeful Practice:
Choose one thing today with full awareness and added purpose, the foods you choose, the movement you make, the words you choose and the rest take.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we interrupt autopilot.

When the Body Asks for Quiet

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“The body speaks long before the mind agrees.”

Sometimes purpose shows up as stillness instead of momentum.
A headache, a heavy limb, a desire to cancel plans.
Not weakness, instead, communication.

When the body asks for quiet, honoring it is an act of alignment.
Listening now prevents collapse later.


The body lowers its voice.
Purpose leans closer.
Nothing is wrong,
something is being protected.

Purposeful Practice:
Rest without justifying it and
no productivity attached.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we explore how purpose grows in small decisions.

Creating Space Where Noise Used to Be

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“Purpose often arrives when the noise leaves.”

When the decorations come down and the messages slow, an unfamiliar quiet moves in.
For some, it feels peaceful, for others, it feels unsettling.
But this space is not asking to be filled, it’s asking to be noticed.

What once demanded your attention has stepped aside.
What remains is room.
And room is where purpose begins to whisper.


The room exhales,
nothing rushes in.
Something waiting,
finally has space
to breathe.

Purposeful Practice:
Clear one small space today, a table, a drawer, a corner.
Let emptiness be intentional, not accidental.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we listen to what the body has been asking for all along.

After the Rush, the Choosing

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“Purpose begins when the noise ends.”

After the holidays, something shifts.
The anticipation dissolves and the adrenaline fades, the rooms quiet.
What remains isn’t emptiness, it’s space.

This is the moment many people fall off a cliff.
The busyness stops, and without realizing it, so does the sense of direction.
But this pause is not a loss.
It’s a hand-off, one season releasing, another waiting to be chosen.

Purpose doesn’t arrive loudly here.
It waits for attention.

The season exhales.
The baton is offered.
Nothing rushes you,
but something invites you.

Purposeful Practice:
Today, choose one thing on purpose.
One walk, one pause, one sentence written.
Not because you should, but because you decided.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we explore how purpose is built through the smallest choices, not the biggest plans.

After the Noise, the Listening

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Where seasons reach out to one another, the change is purposeful.

There is a moment after the holidays that often goes unnamed.
The lights dim, the schedules loosen and the energy makes a quick shift.
What remains is full of information.

The body is still processing.
The heart is still sorting.
The nervous system is recalibrating after intensity, whether that intensity came from joy, grief, connection, separation, or expectation.

This is not a time to decide who you are or where you’re going next.
This is a time to be most present and purposeful.

What you feed your mind right now matters.
What you allow into your presence matters.
What you replay, what you consume, what you dwell in, all of it becomes structure.

Not because it’s right or wrong,
but because attention builds architecture.

What you notice stabilizes.
What you resist persists.
What you listen to teaches you
where alignment already exists.

This is where renewal actually begins,
not with resolutions,
not with pressure,
not with fixing anything,
but with purpose.

Are you moving through the day with kindness or resistance?
Are you feeding your body nourishment or distraction?
Are your thoughts pulling you backward, or allowing you to arrive fully here?

The past is a foundation, not a destination.
Memory can guide, but it cannot lead.

You don’t step forward by erasing what was.
You step forward by using it as experience,
by choosing a slightly different turn,
by experimenting with one small shift.

A new path doesn’t announce itself loudly.
It opens quietly when you’re willing to listen.

The forest doesn’t explain itself.
It invites you to breathe
and discover what is already alive.

Today doesn’t ask you to change your life.
It asks you to notice it.

Gentle Practice:
Lower the volume, just a little.
Less input, more purpose.
Ask one simple question, without needing an answer:
What is available to me right now?

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we explore change and how small shifts in attention can quietly realign an entire season.

Entering the Next Season More Awake

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“Purpose doesn’t push, it carries us forward.”

You didn’t miss anything.
You moved through what you needed.

This next season doesn’t require urgency, only awareness.


The baton passes to the next.
You take it, purposefully
without hurry,
without fear.

Purposeful Practice:
Acknowledge one way you’re different than two weeks ago.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-

The next two week series will surprise you. Do you have any requests for a series you may want a new perspective on?

“Love That Stays, Even at a Distance”

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“Love doesn’t disappear when gatherings do.”

Even when families shift,
when invitations stop,

when distance separates us,
even when dynamics fracture.
Love still exists, its just quieter and holds a new shape.

It may no longer sit at the same table,
or follow the same traditions,
or move in the same patterns,
but it remains,
in the lessons learned,
in the wishes whispered,
in the hope that someday hearts soften
and paths cross with more grace than before.

Christmas is not measured by who shows up,
but by the love you carry with softness,
the peace you claim with each breath,
and the light you choose to reflect or deny.

The heart remembers
what the room forgets.
Love endures while transforming,
even here.

Gentle Practice:
Wrap your arms around yourself.
Say: “I am loved, even in the quiet.”

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow begins Week Four: The Renewal Path, how to move into the end of December with clarity, creativity, and emotional strength.

Sending you so much love!

“A Different Kind of Christmas”

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“Tradition is not what keeps us alive, truth is.”

Christmas may not look how it once did.
The people may be different.
The table may be quieter.
The day may be simpler, softer, or more reflective.

But different is not lesser.
Different can be peaceful.
Different can be healing.
Different can become the very thing your heart needed.

Let this Christmas
be exactly what it is,
no pretending,
no performing,
only presence.

Gentle Practice:
Light a candle tonight.
Let it represent every form of love, near, far, lost, returned, or still becoming.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, on Christmas Day, we speak of love that survives distance.

“Belonging in New Places”

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“When old places and gatherings close, the heart does not have to close with it.”

You may not sit at the table you once knew.
But that doesn’t mean you are without a place.
Belonging can be rediscovered in surprising forms,
in a quiet morning with someone who loves you,
in a friend who says “come over,”
in a walk by the lake,
in a new ritual that feels more like freedom than loss.

When belonging shifts, it asks you to shift too.
To create, not cling.
To build, not beg.
To make room for the life that is becoming yours now.

Belonging is not a location,
it’s a light you learn
to carry in you.

Gentle Practice:
Choose one new ritual for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Let it be something small but meaningful.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we look at the courage to make Christmas different without sadness sitting at a new table.

“Invisible Pressures at the Holiday Table”

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“Sometimes a single request reshapes the whole room.”

Family gatherings are delicate ecosystems.
One person’s discomfort can shift the guest list,
the energy,
the seating,
the invitations,
and the invisible lines between who comes and who doesn’t.

This isn’t always cruelty.
Often it’s fear, old wounds, unhealed history, or a longing for control.
And the host, trying to honor everyone, may not see the quiet heartbreak created at the edges.
The intention isn’t to exclude,
But the impact is real.

Even gentle rooms
have fault lines.
Even warm hearts
can accidentally cast shadows.

Gentle Practice:
Breathe in compassion, for every perspective, including your own.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we explore choosing new forms of belonging when old ones shift.