Practically speaking blog by Jill Donovan

Your Closure Is Not In Their Apology

Raise your hand if you have ever said something like this:I refuse to move forward until I get an apology.I don’t know about you, but my hand is definitely up. When we hold tightly to an offense,...

Don’t Pay The Toll Twice

My dear friend, Cara, has a favorite saying she has been telling me for the last thirty years. And now it’s one of the first things I hear in my mind when fear or anxiety rears its ugly head.Don’t ...

The Silent Melody

Have you ever experienced a time when it felt like the music of your life just stopped playing? It may have been a long time coming, or it may have happened unexpectedly. But one day, you realized ...

Moving Forward Without Closure

Nothing will keep us stuck longer and steal our peace faster than the inability to get closure from a hurtful situation. Oftentimes, something in life ends without warning.Without explanation. Natu...

How Big Is God!

Four simple words.  Yet so powerful.  This phrase also happens to be the defining legacy of my mom. In every single thing that happens in her life and in the lives of her children and grandchildren...

Compare No More

Hanging in the entrance of Rustic Cuff headquarters is a sign that says, “Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20.” There are so many ways we compare ourselves. Our physical appea...

20,000 Breaths

Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you for one reason or another? For that moment in time, when you are unable to breathe, it can feel like something close to death. Humans, on average, t...

What Brings You To Your Knees?

I once heard the question, “What one thing, if it got better, would make the greatest difference in your life?” The answer is often the thing that brings us to our knees more than any other issue...

How to Stop Living For The Love Of A Like

My niece, Lauren, is a flight attendant for Delta Airlines and has curated an album of the most incredible pictures from the most incredible places over the last several years. From India to Italy,...

Change The Phrase, Change Your Heart.

How often do you catch yourself using the phrase “I have to”? Especially during tasks that can make every day feel like Groundhog’s Day, such as going to work, cleaning the kitchen, transporting ...