Are you ready for a growth spurt? Well, I've caught one for you today. One to two times a month,

I'll give you a short message that I am calling a growth spurt that will help you narrow in on our

focus of the month in ways that are bite size and super applicable right away. So let's jump on in.

It has been such a wonderful month to talk about belonging to yourself and living from a place

of being wholehearted. One of the things that helps me feel whole to feel like myself

is to read. I just want to start this growth spurt by saying, if you are not currently a reader,

maybe you are feeling a lot of guilt about that right now, and that is not how I want you to feel,

especially after you listen to this growth spurt. If this is something that you want more of in your

life right now, if this is a season where you're ready to lean back into reading or to pick it up

for maybe the first time in a long time, well then, I'm going to give you three tips on how to

become a bookworm again, or for the first time. Growing up, I was always a big reader. Honestly,

this is one of the strongest memories of my childhood is how there's this common thread

between my memories with reading. I remember reading in the trees. I remember reading in my bedroom

a lot. One of my favorite memories is like bringing up a piece of banana bread with cheese on it.

That's how we did it. My family orange to pill, just like I saw Joe do on little women and read

my books by the light of the lamp light. I can connect many of my memories to the books that I

was reading at the time. So I've always spent a major bookworm. And as an English major,

an English teacher, and all those things that was even more interwoven in my life as an adult.

With my first kid, I found that I actually had plenty of time to read. You know, when she was

napping or while we were on our walks, and I was listening on my little iPod, listening to

audio books, and I read the Hunger Games and the Twilight series, and I read the whole Bible,

like I read all these things while she was napping. And it was such a great way for me to feel

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