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Simply Katherina

Simply Katherina

Joyfully and Wildly

Tag: life

Dear Dad

Jun 21, 2020Jun 21, 2020Categories Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on Dear Dad

Dear Dad, I love how much you love bluegrass and yodelling cowboys. You have been a calm, consistent presence my whole life. I don’t know who I would be without you. There are so many childhood memories that are a result of spending time with you, from playing baseball in the park to asking you…

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Dear Mom

May 10, 2020May 9, 2020Categories Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on Dear Mom

Dear Mom, Where do you even begin writing a letter to the most important woman in your life? What words do you use when trying to articulate how much of an impact a single person has had on your life? There have been so many lessons that you’ve taught me, some that you planned and…

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Forget-Me-Nots and Hyacinths

Apr 19, 2020Categories Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on Forget-Me-Nots and Hyacinths

Grief (noun) Keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. A cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.   However, grief isn’t just a collection of words that fit neatly into crystal jar for us to display in our living rooms, an object to remind us that we’ve survived…

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An Open Letter to My Anxiety

Mar 25, 2020Categories Honey & Salt, Let's be Real2 Comments on An Open Letter to My Anxiety

Dear Anxiety, For years you have been lurking in the shadows of my mind, biding your time until you saw the perfect opportunity to insert yourself into my life. You came dressed in vibrant colours and draped in glittering jewels with a voice that acted as a soothing balm to my parched heart. You whispered…

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Cotton Candy Skies & Pony Noses

Jan 20, 2020Nov 16, 2020Categories Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on Cotton Candy Skies & Pony Noses

We live in a fast-paced, do-it-yourself, put on your big girl pants kind of world. We rush, and we hustle, and we hurry, and we search for meaning as we run from one thing to the next. As humans, we crave connection, to know that we’re not alone and that someone out there cares for…

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Focus

Nov 1, 2019Nov 16, 2020Categories Verbs for the SoulLeave a Comment on Focus

Where do you usually look during the day? Down at your phone, over the steering wheel out the windshield, at the ground beneath your feet, at the computer screen in front of you, off into the distance wishing that you could be anywhere else but where you are right now? Where we look is where…

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The ABCs of Thankfulness

Oct 16, 2019Oct 16, 2019Categories Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on The ABCs of Thankfulness

With Thanksgiving just past and the memories of laughter and good food still lazing through our minds, it’s important to remember that we aren’t supposed to save all of our gratitude and thankfulness for one day a year, we are to be continually giving thanks to God for all that he has done for us.…

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A Beautiful Moment

Sep 18, 2019Sep 23, 2019Categories Germany, Honey & SaltLeave a Comment on A Beautiful Moment

For the first time, I have no words, no plan, and no idea where this specific blog post will go. Unlike everything else that I’ve written, this post comes from a place that is still bleeding and intensely raw. I didn’t even know if I was going to publish this until just a few minutes…

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Tip Your Ears Back

Sep 2, 2019Sep 23, 2019Categories Honey & Salt, Lessons from the SaddleLeave a Comment on Tip Your Ears Back

When a horse is listening to you, they’ll tip their ears back towards you, showing you that their focus is on what you’re asking them to do and not on everything that’s going on around them. When their ears are pricked forward, it means that their attention is elsewhere, probably on something blowing in the…

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Riding with God

Jul 27, 2019Sep 23, 2019Categories Honey & Salt, Lessons from the Saddle1 Comment on Riding with God

This past week I spent most of my days leading trail rides for 8-10 year old children. Some were scared, some were excited, some didn’t want to be around the horses, some were physically shaking with excitement every time they saw a horse, and some were suddenly and surprisingly allergic to horses. If there’s one…

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Katherina Toews

Katherina Toews

Hello! I spend my days out in the forest on the back of a horse and my nights are spent with a book or binge-watching crime dramas. Writing has been one of my passions for a while now because I love how you can connect life, emotions, and experiences through words. I hope to shed light on issues that are seldom talked about and to share my own personal experiences as I fearlessly pursue a joyful life in the Lord.

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Life doesn't always turn out how you planned it. We set goals, make five year plans, and create mental images of what our lives will look like. But in the midst of that we tend to forget that we aren't actually in control. We don't even know what tomorrow will hold, let alone five years down the road (I mean really, who put down "living in a global pandemic" for their five year plan in 2015?)
I haven’t always been an anxious person, but it snuck inside my heart like a thief when I reached adulthood. Suddenly I was overwhelmed with feelings of unease. My heart would beat so wildly inside my chest that I could see it pulsing from the outside, and my mind would flood with worse case scenarios. I couldn’t put words to what I was feeling for a long time because I had never experienced anything like this before, and no one had ever explained what an anxiety attack was. I felt lost and alone until I realized that these tidal waves of worry only happened when I tried to control every area of my life.
You know that phrase "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Well we don't have a lot of rain here right now, but I sure am learning to dance in the snow. Both literally and metaphorically.
Some days I suffer hard from imposter syndrome. I feel like I never quite belong, especially when it comes to the horse world. I never took any lessons so I don't really know the fancy side of riding with flying lead changes and posting on the diagonal. And I love the western lifestyle but I've never worked on a ranch with cows.
"On that day, a day no different from any other, something inside me inexplicably unravels, my marionette strings falling away like ribbons."
We aren’t meant to live life clinging to the saddle horn the whole time. We’re meant to be

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