Letting Go of the Need to Explain Your Choices to Others
I’ve always had a tendency to overexplain things.
Not because anyone necessarily asked, but because I felt like I needed to justify what I was doing. As if my decisions needed to make sense to everyone around me in order to be valid.
After Jon passed, that feeling got even stronger.
I found myself explaining things that, when I look back now, really didn’t need an explanation at all.
I explained why I was able to stay home with my kids.
I explained how I could afford to add an addition onto our house.
I explained why I stopped wearing my wedding ring after nine months.
I explained why I chose to keep homeschooling instead of putting my kids in school.
I explained why I moved from Maine to New Hampshire.
And later…
I explained when I started dating.
I explained when I got remarried.
No matter what I did, it seemed like there were opinions.
Some people thought I was moving forward too quickly.
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Why choosing safer cleaning products matters more than ever for your family’s health
There’s something about spring that makes us want to throw open the windows and freshen everything up after a long winter.
The air feels lighter.
The trees begin to bud.
Flowers start blooming.
The world outside suddenly feels alive again.
And naturally, we want our homes to feel fresh and beautiful too.
For many of us, spring cleaning is part of that rhythm. We scrub the floors, wash the windows, deep clean the bathrooms, and reset our homes after months of being closed up for winter.
But what most people don’t realize is this:
Many conventional cleaning products are actually adding toxins into the very spaces we’re trying to make “clean.”
And over time, those chemicals can affect our health more than we think.
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