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Grit & Virtue | Guest Post

If you’re a spiritually-driven female entrepreneur and haven’t heard of Grit & Virtue, allow me to introduce you to your new best friend…   Being a business owner, solopreneur or creative professional – while exhilarating – can be an incredibly lonely journey.  G&V has set out to change all that. I love their vision and mission, […]

Guest Post, Keepin' it Real, Love, Marriage

A Letter To My Babes: Philippians Style

Sweet friends, you’re in for a treat!  Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite humans on the planet: Bethany.  I met this amazing woman several years ago through a mutual friend (our bestie below on the left), and we’ve been mutually smitten ever since. Bethany is wise, she is kind, she is hilarious, and […]

Bethany, Faith, Family, Love, Motherhood, Quotes and Scriptures

Looking Back & Moving Ahead : A Walk Down Memory Lane

Yes, believe it or not, I am still alive.  Alive and kicking, complete with jazz hands. It was over tea with a new friend a few weeks ago that I realized just long it had been.  How long since I’d started this little blog, and how long it had been since I’d actually written on […]

Daily Life, Faith, Friendship, Grace, Keepin' it Real, Shop, Uncategorized

Pallet & Paint Projects

I’ve had this gorgeous bouquet of pallet wood sitting in my studio for months now, with little to no desire to play with it. Occasionally I walk in to find more piled up in my entranceway.  because my husband loves me, what can I say?  Is raw project material a possible 6th love language? I […]

Crafts and Activities, Cute Stuff, Frugal Living, Furniture Redo, Home, Paint, Studio

The Studio Makeover

I know, I know.  It’s been almost 3 million years since I first teased you with pictures of dirt and concrete and paint.  Okay, maybe just 4 months.  But it feels like forever since we dug up the dirt around the building to install drainage tile and get the studio makeover rolling, and I’m sure you’ve been waiting […]

Designs, Home Improvement, Keepin' it Real, Organization, Studio

Introducing the We ROAR Project

  Oh, sweet friends…I’m just so giddy about this.  THIS! Giddy that this little dream was sparked in my heart on Tuesday – as in, two days ago – in a moment of awkward vulnerability (this seems to be a trend for me), and in the fastest, most glorious gestation period ever…it was born this […]

Cute Stuff, Friendship, Keepin' it Real, Love, Printables, ROAR project

Sweet Spring Free Printable

Hello, hello! Today is the first official day of Spring, and I am just giddy at the sight of grass and mud and sunshine right now! My wee ones and I have taken several walks through the woods and around the lake and have come home utterly filthy, sometimes shoe-less (due to getting stuck ankle-deep […]

Cute Stuff, Designs, Printables

Even Still… [When You Can’t See God’s Hand] & Printable

I was reading in my Jesus Calling this morning about waiting, trusting and hoping, and how the three are intricately connected to each other. How they act as a strong chain, woven around the central cord of trust, connecting our hearts to God’s. And it reminded me how hard it is to rest in Him […]

Daily Life, Designs, Faith, Printables, Quotes and Scriptures

Master Bathroom Makeover

You guys.  You. GUYS! My loo is LOVELY!  Absolutely stinking gorgeous. Here’s what it looked like before… It was cold, boring and dated. (Although my paint-stick mirror above the toilet is pretty fun!) We ripped up the ugly, old linoleum, pulled out the hideous green countertop (complete with oak trim and green backsplash), and took […]

Crafts and Activities, Home, Home Improvement, Organization, Paint, Photography

Cute Valentine’s Day Gift Tags

This is, by far, the bloggiest thing I’ve posted in a long time.  A l-o-n-g time. I’m not sure whether to apologize, or to nod in silent acceptance of your gratitude. I am, of course, way behind on making these little tags – and hence, sharing this project – but there’s always Pinterest.  Simply pin […]

Crafts and Activities, Cute Stuff, Motherhood, Printables, School, The Kiddos

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

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The stories we tell about ourselves often begin be The stories we tell about ourselves often begin
before we know we’re telling them...
in childhood, where identity is still forming
and belonging can feel uncertain.

This week, I sit down with my friend Tiana Hawver as she shares her story of adoption, trauma, and the ache of rejection that shaped how she saw herself for years.

This one is tender. Honest.
And deeply needed.

🎧 Episode 020 is live | Reconnecting the Dots
  Identity, Trauma, and the Ache of Belonging
Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow. It’s the opposit Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow.
It’s the opposite of fear.

We live between Friday and Sunday,
and most of life feels like Saturday.
Tension is not failure.
It’s formation.

If you’ve been chasing happiness
and feeling weary...
this episode might steady you.

🎧 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess]

Listen wherever you stream podcasts.
One year ago today, I drove 90 mph to an emergency One year ago today,
I drove 90 mph to an emergency room,
wondering if I would walk into that room
as a worried wife…
or a widow.

Another valley of despair.
Another encounter with a good, faithful God.

My update from that week still holds:

"I never imagined my shaky thumbs would be typing words like stroke, NeuroTrauma ICU, or brain surgery in reference to my healthy, 44-year-old husband.
And yet…this is where we find ourselves.
We’ve been brought to our knees—again.
But, as we’ve come to understand…
our knees are a good place to be.
Nestled in the palm of God’s hand..."

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And today, we continue to stand amazed,
at God’s kindness to us,
and at the gift of our people:
our community, our family, our friends,
who have carried us in ways we will never be able to repay.

Looking at my handsome guy today,
strong, fully recovered, and back to work since October,
apart from the six-inch scar up the back of his head,
you’d never know a massive stroke almost took his life.

So we mark today with gratitude.
I hereby dub April 23rd:
Joe’s Stroke of Grace Day ✌

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“When you’re in over your head,
I’ll be there with you.
When you’re in rough waters,
you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place,
it won’t be a dead end…”
:: Isaiah 43:2
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Happiness is a moving target. Joy is not. In toda Happiness is a moving target.
Joy is not.

In today’s episode, I share a story about a farmer
who trusted the wrong reference point,
and plowed his entire field crooked.
Maybe the reason we’re exhausted isn’t because we’re failing.
Maybe we’ve been fixing our eyes on something that keeps moving.

This conversation isn’t about faking joy.
It’s about cultivating it, in grief, in tension,
in the hidden places where roots grow.

🎧 Episode 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess] is now live.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #RootedJoy #FaithInTheHard #JoyOnTheJourney
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What if addiction isn’t the root, but the symptom? What if addiction isn’t the root,
but the symptom?

What if beneath the behavior
there’s pain that’s never been named?

This week’s conversation is about
truth, trauma, and the slow work of healing.

And the kind of redemption
only God can write.

🎧 Listen to 018 | Beauty Beyond the Breaking with Carol Boothroyd
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