https://www.karyanngarretson.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-04-24 https://www.karyanngarretson.com/blog/new-year-new-goals monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://www.karyanngarretson.com/blog/things-have-been-hard-lately monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://www.karyanngarretson.com/blog/mom-where-are-you monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://www.karyanngarretson.com/blog/i-dont-often-feel-safe monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64088bf58da37867b3858343/0ce1ce96-ddcd-4316-bdff-24ab817feff4/IMG_8312.jpg Live Redefined - I Don’t Often Feel Safe The retreat was held in a gorgeous house with enormous windows looking out over a beautiful lake tucked right in the middle of the state of Ohio. The group I was with: 7 other women who all love Jesus and were all there along with me to grow in their gifts of leadership. There was a rawness, an openness in the air that I am rarely surrounded by. Most of the women there didn’t know one another and that brought about a kind of safety, a willingness to be honest because judgment in those moments was rare and honesty was valued, because we were all there for the same purpose: to grow. So we were allowed to be exactly wherever in life we may have found ourselves in that moment, because our goal was growth and you can’t grow if you don’t recognize where you are. We spent the weekend, recognizing, learning together, growing. Being honest about where we came from and where we are and also where we are hoping to be. Offering feedback and accepting loving criticism without defense or restraint. It was beautiful vulnerability, because we were united in purpose and knew that this was a safe place. The memory of that weekend brought me to my thoughts today, as I am working, making decisions and putting myself out there, taking the risk that the decisions I make will be wrong or people will think they are wrong or these decisions will make people not like me, I realized that I yearned to go back to the safety of that lake house. https://www.karyanngarretson.com/home daily 1.0 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64088bf58da37867b3858343/ff744913-ee07-431f-adae-f0e97b170f2d/sasha-freemind-nXo2ZsKHTHg-unsplash.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64088bf58da37867b3858343/1679014749573-1A45GRE66O2HCBQ8MLRN/unsplash-image-E9IB3-gp7OE.jpg https://www.karyanngarretson.com/about daily 0.75 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64088bf58da37867b3858343/1679010858745-V284VGHD4G76GZJSPH45/unsplash-image-npruZYZgfA0.jpg https://www.karyanngarretson.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-03-15