Featured in the Cottage Journal

Friends I am so excited to tell you , that I am being featured in the Cottage Journal magazine as the blogger of the month! Each month, the Cottage Journal magazine picks a home decor blogger to feature, and I am their featured blogger for September. Seriously, it feels like a dream come true to be recognized by a magazine as a successful blogger, because not one realizes the struggle and the hustle that goes on behind the scenes. If you are familiar with my story at all, than you know in the beginning I was so afraid that no one would take me seriously because I didn’t have a degree from college saying I was a “professional”. After years of pressing onward, and pursuing my dream, I can honestly say that most of those fears that I struggled with in the beginning feel like a distant memory. Now that doesn’t mean I don’t still struggle with things.

Believe me with each new goal comes a wave of self doubt. But as I was reading the interview featured on the Cottage Journal this month, I was thinking back to some of the first interviews I had just 3 short years ago. Gosh I was so nervous! I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing, or feeling like if I didn’t sound professional enough they would come back to me and tell me they changed their mind on the feature. Talk about pressure. I was so wrapped up in feeling inadequate on what I would say, that I stumbled through my answers second guessing every.single.word.

I realized that in doing so I was allowing what other people thought of me, speak louder than my heart to inspire women. That instead of using the opportunity to let me voice shine louder, I struggled and said what I thought “they” would want to here.

Man am I so glad that I feel more comfortable in this skin now. That all the lies of not being good enough, because I don’t have a plaque hanging on my wall, are silenced. That the lies of feeling like I didn’t know what I was talking about are gone. Because at the end of the day this is what I have come to realize. I love what I do so freakin’ much that ultimately that passion is going to shine greater than any dark cloud of fear or self doubt. That I can stand firmly knowing my creative gifts come from God, and I can walk boldly in them whether I am recognized or not. Whether I am accepted by others or not, because I know where my true acceptance comes from. So much of this feeds into “Knowing Your Why” – which I shared HERE, but I want you to know is I didn’t always feel this confidence. That behind the pretty photos is a girl who is chasing her God sized dreams, and stumbles along the way, but I know He will pick me back up.

I am so thankful for this amazing opportunity to be featured by the Cottage Journal. It was so fun to read the article and see our home through the eyes of their lens. And if you’ve ever wondered why I named my blog “Rooms for Rent”, I’m sharing all about in the interview.

New profile photo courtesy of @rachellechasephoto

I hope you will stop by and read it. I hope you will continued to be inspired in your home and in your life. And I hope that if you struggle with fear or self doubt, you know that the peace doesn’t come from trying to “fit in” to what you think other people want you to be. But that our identity comes from God, and what He has called us to be.

Click HERE to see the feature by The Cottage Journal, and read the interview!

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