• JOIN THE TRIBE
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube

Simply Bloom Co.

Where Passion & Purpose Collide

  • About
    • FAQ
    • Media & Interviews
    • Blog
      • Everyday Blooms
      • Marriage
      • Motherhood
      • Recipes
        • Breakfasts & Snack Foods
        • Lunches & Main Meals
        • Desserts & Sweet Treats
  • Speaking
    • Topics
    • Schedule
    • Conferences
    • Enneagram
    • Reviews
    • Podcast
      • Episodes
    • Booking
  • Books
    • SOZO Book
    • Penduka Book
      • Penduka Shop
    • XES Book
      • Book Reviews
      • Interviews & Podcasts
    • Launch Manual
    • R:EVOLVE Journal
  • Coaching
    • Client Contact
    • Resources
      • Coaching Agreement
      • Client Questionnaire
      • Favorite Books
  • Design
    • Client Reviews
    • Investment
    • Book in Bloom
      • Book in Bloom Bundles
  • Shop

The Penduka Manifesto

Manifesto Banners-01

 

AS A TRIBE OF WOMEN, STRIVING TO LIVE FULLY ALIVE & WHOLEHEARTEDLY EMBRACE GRACE, WE WILL:

 

Choose joy every single day.

Ask brave questions & bring honest answers.

Silence the urge to compete.

Feed gratitude.  Starve comparison.

Own your story.

Rejection happens.  Smile & shake it off.

Watch your words.

Speak life.

Say yes to living in the moment.

Speak loudly enough to discover your voice.  Own it.

Step out and Be Brave.

Take risks.  Repeat.  Embrace failure.

Be quiet enough to listen to your heart.

Create something amazing every day with whatever you have.

Redefine amazing.

Stop criticizing your failed attempts and celebrate that you tried.

Stop apologizing for being human.

Fiercely guard your mind.

Cling to hope. Be relentlessly positive.

Aim for progress, not perfection. Grace always.

Be willing to look foolish.

Take responsibility for your life.

Acknowledge your power. Use it wisely.

Invest in what matters.

Use your talent to improve something.

Protect your yes.  Spend yourself wisely.

Create without criticism.

Be kind to yourself.

Check your price tag.

More faith.  Less everything else.

Fire up your courage. Fire your worry.

Detach your identity from external applause.

Do work that matters.

Silence the internal chatter.

Celebrate small wins.

Pursue wholeness.

Foster authentic friendship.  Minimize soul drainage.

Master the art of forgiveness.

Travel lightly.

Stop avoiding pain. press into it. Choose growth over comfort.

Stop searching for happiness.  Create it.

Collaborate.  Find your tribe.  Love them well.

Mine the gold. Celebrate each other.  Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent.

Keep showing up.

Learn something new every day.

Pour into others. Be generous with your knowledge.

Different is good. Variety is the spice of life.

Stay focused.  Shut out distraction.

Follow through. Simplify.

Open your heart and home.

Honor the longings of your heart.  Question the fear in your head.

Learn from the past, dream of the future, live in the now.

Laugh easily.  Especially at yourself.

Redefine success.  Honor the process.

Refuse to feed limiting beliefs.  Feel the fear, press in anyway.

Allow others to be the hero.

Find your passion. Wake it up and feed it.

Nurture your strengths, acknowledge your weakness.

Reach out.  Rise up.  Love authentically.  Lead bravely.

Be intentional. Extend grace.

Live fully awake.

 

# P E N D U K A L I F E

 

“I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”

Ephesians 4:1

 

[ Download the printable manifesto & other Penduka freebies here ]

Manifesto Banners-02

Related posts:

  1. Wake Up! Penduka is Here!
  2. When You Feel Like A Train Wreck {Hope For The Weary Mom}
  3. The Comparison Game {and Why it’s So Overrated}
  4. Battling Perfectionism with Imperfect Action
«
»

Goals, Grace, Printables

Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for the monthly newsletter…

Simply Bloom exists to empower women to embrace their stories, live out their passion with purpose, and leave a legacy of love.
 photo Joy.jpg

Hello there! I'm Joy. Speaker, designer, author & coach, and creator of the #weROARproject. Welcome to Simply Bloom Co., where passion & purpose collide.

Subscribe for Updates

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
I am regularly overwhelmed by the kindness of God I am regularly overwhelmed by the 
kindness of God in the small + simple.

Things like twinkle lights + Christmas jazz,
scraping out the peanut butter fudge pot
all by myself while sitting on the counter,
and walking around the corner to find my
loin fruit snuggled up together over tea.

They may fight like cats + dogs at times,
but their bond is deep and true and sweet.
Happy release day, @dralisoncook 💛 Written at Happy release day, @dralisoncook 💛

Written at the intersection 
of faith and psychology, 
this book is yet another 
soul-nourishing,
heart-healing, 
boundary-fortifying 
gift from Alison Cook
(if you’ve had a heart-to-heart
with me in the past two years,
you know how much I loved 
‘Boundaries for the Soul’). 

As an enneagram 2 who was raised 
in the church, this book was a timely
and liberating read. Pure balm for the 
weary, recovering-people-pleaser soul. 

I am beyond grateful for the wisdom, 
compassion + experience that Alison 
brings to all she shares (and it was
such an honor to be on her launch 
team for this beautiful new book).

Need a survival guide for your growth
and healing journey? Here you go! ✌🏼

#thebestofyou #thebestofyoubook #womenoffaith #healthyboundaries #healthyyou #healingjourney
Find yourself a tribe of people who will, togethe Find yourself a tribe of people who will, 
together, spend a beautiful Saturday
morning pulling this workout off:

• 20 mile run
• 340 tire flips
• 2,000 air squats
• 1,000 pull ups
• 1,500 box jumps
• 2,200 pull ups
• 600 devil press
• 3,300 sit ups

Brutal. Amazing. 
Exhausted.
So grateful for these two - their friendship, enco So grateful for these two - their friendship,
encouragement and wise counsel over the
past decade of being our pastoral couple
has been such a gift to our family 💛

Congrats on your retirement, dear friends!!
“Over the years, I have come to realize that t “Over the years, 
I have come to realize that 
the greatest trap in our life is not 
success, popularity, or power, 
but self-rejection.”
 :: Henri Nouwen

Somewhere along the journey of 
life, we start to believe the lie that - 
despite being made in the very image 
of a good and beautiful God - who we 
are is inherently bad and broken, and 
we learn to cover that deep sense 
of inadequacy (and the shame that 
accompanies it) with performance.

Because our visceral 
human response to 
‘bad + broken’ is 
‘reject + conceal’.

We think it’s the rejection of others
that cuts us to the core, but the truth
is…most of us walk around wounded 
by a constant and unrelenting sense 
of self-rejection and self-loathing.

Want to know why we feverishly seek 
out the approval and validation of others?
Why we desperately want others to like us?

Because we’re out of touch with our
inherent value and worth, and we’re
not sure that we even like ourselves.

We resent our weakness,
and abandon ourselves.

/ / /

But this good + beautiful God of ours…
He is drawn to our weakness like a
moth to a flame, swooping in to
bring strength and grace.

Paul writes in Corinthians 12:9 that 
he learned to delight in his weakness 
because it was when he was week that
“His strength is perfected in me”. 

Or, as the Passion Translation so 
stunningly puts it, “my weakness 
becomes a portal to God’s power”.

Precious ones, we can shun our tender
still-in-process places, pretend to have 
it all together, and hustle for our worth…
OR we can drop the masks, offer kindness 
and curiosity to our hurting, broken parts,
and learn to live fully seen and known.

But we can’t have both.

And yes, it’s scary.

Today may we choose
…grace over perfectionism
…curiosity over shame
…acceptance over rejection
…gentleness over judgement
…wholeness over pretense

You are loved.
And they’re off! Alathea is in 10th grade and A And they’re off!

Alathea is in 10th grade and
Aiden is heading into 8th grade.

Here’s to a year full of grace,
discovery, friendship + growth 🙌🏼
"Faith isn't the ability to believe long + far i "Faith isn't the ability 
to believe long + far 
into the misty future. 
It's simply taking God 
at His Word + taking 
the next step."

:: Joni Eareckson Tada
Day 15 | Beach Day + Travel Prep We fly out late Day 15 | Beach Day + Travel Prep

We fly out late tomorrow evening so today
has been a lazy day of laundry, laying in the
sun, a petshop visit (where Aiden fell in love 
with a cute rat + I discovered zebra finches), 
an impromptu stop for bubble tea + stuffed crepes [oh my word, were these delicious!!],
shopping [I found the best, comfiest - Joe
would argue ‘ugliest’ - romper at the thrift
store that I can’t wait to wear on our long
journey home], and Aiden is currently off
doing his thing: fishing right from the pier.
Our view from the lodge last night ✨ Our view from the lodge last night ✨
Follow @SimplyBloomJoy

Copyright © 2025 · Designed by Simply Bloom · Theme from Restored 316

Copyright © 2025 · Darling Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in