Come alive, stay wild, and always, savor the journey!

Molly Jo Realy is an author, editor, creative, and encouragement coach who empowers people to embrace their unique sparkle and share their stories as only they can.

She is the author of NOLA: Undeaux – a novel retelling of love and murder, creator of the Book Builder Workbook, and has successfully crowdfunded several projects.

A Southern hippiechick at heart, Molly Jo is an award-winning author whose writings have been featured in children’s magazines, devotionals, featured blogs, and writing anthologies. Her short stories have earned her awards and scholarships from nationally acclaimed writing programs. Addicted to God, cats, tea, journals, planners, and pens, in no particular order.

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Small Favors

“Small favors” is another way of making lemonade out of lemons. It’s also one of the first lines spoken by Mrs. McCready in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, when she greets the children who carry almost nothing with them. For me, it’s an expression of finding joy in the little things, like community.
When we accept small favors from others, we encourage them to keep giving. And often entertain angels unaware.

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The Essence of Journaling

by Molly Jo Realy (@MollyJoRealy) Let’s discuss the essence of journaling, shall we? Raise your hand if you ever had a journal. Oh, yeah. I’ve got all my fingers in a high wiggle. Now. Keep ‘em up if you’ve actually used them. [And if you haven’t, keep reading. Further down you’ll find...

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Breaking In Comfort

I had to clean up after a wild four-day party. Y’all were invited, didn’t you get the memo? And many of you showed up. And brought some uninvited guests with ya. Well, what the heck. The more the merrier, right? Except … This was really a party of one.

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