Three Letters You Need to Write to Yourself

WritingRachel Devenish FordAugust 27, 2024

Moving platforms

Hi friends, this blog is moving platforms!

Follow me over to racheldevenishford.substack.com

I’ll be writing a longer form piece each week on fridays, as well as publishing monday poetry and midweek inspiration.

A World of Family, AnnouncementsRachel Devenish FordMarch 11, 2023 Comment

Life in Snapshots: Little Bits of December and January

A World of Family, Joy, TravelingRachel Devenish FordMarch 4, 2023 Comment

Monday Poetry: Wolf Moon

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monday poetry: i did what i wanted to do

Poems, Monday poetryRachel Devenish FordJanuary 16, 2023Comment

Monday Poetry : the test

Rachel Devenish FordJanuary 9, 2023Comment

Register for Writing From the Heart before midnight on December 29!

I’m writing to let you know that registration for my course Writing From the Heart (Reading on mobile? Click here), closes in two days! You are warmly invited!

WritingRachel Devenish FordDecember 28, 2022Comment

The Journey Mama Writings Season 1 Episode 5 is out! (finally!)

The fifth episode of The Journey Mama Writings podcast, is out here!

Trees Tall as Mountains, PodcastRachel Devenish FordDecember 10, 2022Comment

Last day for Early Bird Registration and Pricing. Do you want to be part of our little writing community?

Dear Wild Seeds,

It's happening!

People have been signing up for their spaces in Writing From the Heart, and I'm starting to get the happy, anticipatory feelings that come when you know something is going to be good.

Writing, CoursesRachel Devenish FordDecember 2, 2022Comment

Writing From The Heart: Finding Home in your Soul Through Telling Your Story- New Course!

Hi friends,

I’ve been writing newsletters and Instagram posts about my new course, Writing from the Heart, for the last week, and it has just occurred to me that despite all the places I’ve written, I didn’t include this blog! What???

Announcements, Writing, CoursesRachel Devenish FordNovember 30, 2022Comment

Wildlife.

The thing about where I live is that it is the most incredibly beautiful place, and also you have to learn to like critters, or at least co-exist with them.

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Hands in the distance.

It has been raining for days. Streams flow from the mountain tops and flood the roads. So far, Shekina Garden (next to the river) hasn’t flooded again.

A World of Family, Inside My Head, Stories, Thailand stuffRachel Devenish FordOctober 5, 2022Comment

Getting in and out of pickles is a life skill.

I wake up and have to choose.

On my last post, Dee commented that motherhood is more of an offering than an investment. Whew. That is a mouthful. An offering.

I wake up and have to choose. To consume? To invest, strings attached? Or to hold my hands out: an offering?

Inside My Head, Little Solo, Traveling, Thailand stuff, StoriesRachel Devenish FordSeptember 24, 2022Comment

On Telling Stories

“We have a lot of kids,” I say to Chinua after we pick Kai up. The car is full of them, and this is so literal, in the space sense. Our car is full of our family.

Writing, A World of Family, Inside My HeadRachel Devenish FordSeptember 5, 2022 Comments

Umbrella thoughts: This and that from inside my head.

Umbrellas are wonderful because they show up in unexpected places. This is what I thought to myself the other night, as Chinua and I were driving home from a date that didn’t go badly but didn’t go well,

Inside My Head, Thailand stuff, Little SoloRachel Devenish FordAugust 22, 2022 Comment

The Journey Mama Writings Season 1 Episode 4 is out!

The fourth episode of The Journey Mama Writings podcast, is out here!

PodcastRachel Devenish FordAugust 16, 2022Comment

On things changing and staying the same.

I began this blog seventeen years ago and named it Journey Mama because of a dream. I felt stuck and needed to travel in words and memories, needed to journey even if I wasn’t physically going anywhere.

Things change, and they stay the same.

Inside My Head, Mama StuffRachel Devenish FordAugust 11, 2022 Comments

a series on being :: part seven

:: part seven ::

You will find that you can do the same- you can move toward others in love, even knowing that you can’t always understand all of what they are going through or what they decide, knowing it is not your job to understand everything. That is the work that they do with God in their own souls.

A World of Family, StoriesRachel Devenish FordAugust 8, 2022Comment