Carey Bailey, Author at Carey Bailey

Choices. Buy vs. Make?

September 18, 2014

We are continuing in our Choices: choosing good in a world serving junk series. I am excited to bring you a guest post from my Summer of Joy buddy, Britta La Font. Having just walked away from a week at Camp Create where I got to spend the week creating and using my hands this idea of ...

Choices

1 Hour Facebook Smackdown!

September 9, 2014

This month we are focusing in on our choices and what it looks like to make good choices in a world serving junk. We are specifically focused on our choices in these areas: Food Social media Self care Time This week we are going to confront social media and specifically Facebook. You ready? ...

Choices

Choices: Let's Make them Matter

September 3, 2014

Anyone want to join me in a day of bad choice making? No? We don’t do that do we? We don’t wake up thinking “let’s run around this day living out our bad habits”? I believe most of us desire to make good choices surrounding our relationships, our health and our time but the reality is we live ...

Crafts/Printables, Pin God 1st

Pin God 1st Gets A Makeover!

August 27, 2014

September! That sounds like such a dreamy month. I am envisioning parts of the country that are cooling off and watching things change colors but here in Phoenix we consider it painful. It SHOULD feel like Fall and instead it is still over 100 degrees and the sweat...it just keeps dripping. We ...

Life Coaching

Welcoming New

August 26, 2014

It has been just a bit over a year since I closed the door on my 20 year career in church ministry and took a bold leap towards the dream of Life Coaching I held in my heart for 12 years. Can I tell you a secret? I have held onto the Life Coaching dream loosely and I literally set ZERO goals – ...

Life Coaching

Doing Business with Busyness.

August 13, 2014

Summer is coming to a close and the scent of “back to school” is the air. I am days away from heading out on one last vacation for the season, and people all around me are fitting in things here and there. There is just a busy feeling in the air. In fact, when I ask people “How are you?” ...

Summer of Joy

How to Add Intentionality To Your Days

August 6, 2014

After a rip roaring fun vacation last week we are now in full "Back to School" mode. While my kiddos grew up in the preschool that was on campus where I worked we have never had to "be on time", pack lunches, get in carpool lines,etc... So we have spent this week practicing. Silly as that may ...

Crafts/Printables, Pin God 1st

August Printables

August 4, 2014

I was on vacation last week. Like a real, live, whole week long vacation. I don't think we have ever done that as a family. Usually, it is just a few days here or there. But, a full seven days really allows vacation mode to actually set in. And let me just say it was good. I had every ...

Summer of Joy

How To Trailblaze Through Trials.

July 23, 2014

Last week was a hell of a week. Please understand my hell of a week is relevant to your hell of a week. You could have had a HELL of a week. Here is a mini glimpse into mine: A routine teeth cleaning for my daughter ended up turning into a referral to an oral surgeon which led to a ...

Summer of Joy

Joy. In Trials?

July 21, 2014

All I could think was: What person is their right mind would rejoice in suffering, much less their own suffering? "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope" (Romans 5:3-4). Still, it seemed like such a ...