The Evy's Tree Story: Do Scary Things

Thoughts on scary things today

For the last couple weeks I’ve been in difficult, almost frozen state. There is a lot going on in my life with family, kids and work, and to be honest, I feel exhausted. Some days I feel numb. I can get overwhelmed with worry about things; although I try very hard not to. If the last couple years has taught me anything, it’s that everything will be ok in the end. But sometimes the path to the end feels lonely, dark… and scary.

I’m not typically afraid of scary things…

I made a motto out it, to be exact. Years and years ago, when I first started Evy’s Tree {which feels like a hundred years ago at this point} the phrase “do scary things” became my go to phrase. In fact, I was the first one to use the #doscarythings hashtag on social media…when I first started it there were no posts, and now there are thousands. Not that I was the first one to come up with the idea or anything… I think I just said what others intrinsically knew…