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It’s that time of the year again. Time to wrap up the year with an an afternoon at home set aside to look back, reflect, and release. I’m in those liminal, in-between days now…

I feel like this is a magical week. These days in between June’s full moon + the summer solstice. There is some kind of life-giving, hopeful, abundant, warm energy that fills me right now.…

The sun is setting on 2021 and all endings, all dark times, all evenings and nighttimes are the perfect opportunities for a little inner work, I believe. Since I find myself right smack dab…

There is literally nothing better than cozy holiday songs, I think. Mellow, moody, wistful songs. Songs that tell the Christmas story with a sense of longing. . Songs that tell the story of the…

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s time for my annual 12 months + 12 blessings yearly summary! This one, however, is going to be a bit different – because this year has been a bit different. And…

I’d like to personally invite you to The Gathering starting November 1. A 30 day creative journey to the innermost depths of your soul in the darkest days of the year. In one week,…

This is what I’ve been waiting for. This month. This season. This post! It’s time for a question + answer list, y’all. And that’s always a fun way to really dig deep + do…

10 years ago I hit publish for the very first time on belovelive.com. I was 36, newly married, and had just completed my first 7 months of living in Norrköping, Sweden. Life was uncertain…

update: oh snap. it worked! this is crazy. and kinda weird. but it was super easy to do. what do you think about it?! xoxo. liz.…

It never fails. The last 2 days of December I always seem to get some sort of panicky feeling that I have not had enough time to release all that I want to leave…

It’s time to kick off the holiday season with my annual 12 months + 12 blessings summary. Of course, this time it’s 2020 style = the pandemic edition. I know, it seems a bit…

It’s been almost a month since my last post! How is that possible? Time just keeps on clicking by, days running into days, months into months, and this crazy year continues onward. My absence…

Happy 2020, y’all! I’ve been feeling the energies of this year for a while now. They started creeping in during December and I am so excited to finally sit down + write about it…

A new year + a new decade is upon us. My mind does not even comprehend that in 2 days it will be 2020. So, in order for me to even begin to process…

This week’s challenge is inspired by all of those who are out there daring to break the rules. People like John Paul Jose | India, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | USA, Holly Gillibrand | Scotland, Leah Namugerwa | Uganda, and…

Well, it’s official. This challenge is a challenge. Somehow I was able to snag some photos + complete this week’s apocalypse challenge, but it was most definitely tough. I was out of town some…

A week ago, I introduced a photography challenge that I’m going to embark on for the next 52 weeks. Well, friends, it’s time to begin! I’ve finished my first week and I’m ready to…

Inspired by a weekend in Stockholm with my wife, I’ve decided to embark on a challenge for the next 52 weeks. That’s right. One whole year of weekly photography challenges. When we visited Fotografiska,…

Mid-April. What the heck? Just when I think that things are going to drag on, time keeps right on flying by. And suddenly I find myself at the beginning of my long-long-looooong-awaited Easter/Spring break.…

Hello, friends. And welcome to my own little celebration for belovelive.com. Monday, April 1, I will have been blogging + writing + creating + documenting in this space for 8 crazy amazing years. I…

It’s time to stop. Stop the hustle. I am enough. Just as I am. Right where I am. That hustle way of life ain’t for me. No, not for this slow living girl… devoted…

Year endings are all about countdowns, right? So, to celebrate the ending of my blogging year, it’s time for my annual top posts post. I’m counting them down chronologically. So, here we go! Here…

It’s the official beginning of the holiday season + I love starting it off with a review of 12 blessings since the last holiday season! …

There are just a few short weeks left before 2019 + I am really feeling a deep calling to grow + expand + try something new. It’s time I create a new vision and…

Last autumn (2017), I spent a lot of dark, cozy weekend days at home and I ended up diving deep into my soul. As a result, I felt a strong pull toward living the…

I turned 44 just a few days ago. But, in some ways, it feels like forever ago. Probably because I’ve got life, death, and Pa’lante on my mind. Ok. Let me back up a…

Is it just me, or does today feel like this week has lasted foreeeeever? I’ve been a day ahead every day. It’s been a week that has been tons of fun, lots of work,…

In my world, July is like the space between. It’s not a transition month – in my opinion, like June or September are as they move us through the seasons. And, yet, it transitions…

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.” ― Virginia Woolf Late June, a bright full moon, and a midyear roundup. This is going to be a post…

It’s time to say farewell + to prepare to turn the page. To soak up the bittersweetness that is the last day of the year. And to look back over all of the moments…

With just a few days left in 2017 and the holiday festivities winding down, I am feeling the energy shifting all around me. The old days are passing by and new ones are just…

It’s time for the big Year in Review countdown! In this end-of-the-year post, I’m sharing with you what turned out to be my top seven posts from 2017. They are the ones that I…

Music is not everything, but it is pretty freaking important. At least in my life, lovelies. What about in yours? Are you dependent upon music to set the mood, give you good vibes, express…

In Sweden, we call Wednesday “Little Saturday”. I’ve never really heard the reason, but I am assuming that it has something to do with the American version of “hump day”. It’s the middle of…

I suppose you may be wondering…how? How + what do I have planned for this month of being present + for this Advent calendar I am creating? And, most importantly, how do we really…

I almost seriously overslept this morning. You’d think that after a cozy, slow weekend at home, I’d be all rested up, but apparently I turned off my alarm at 5:40 and dropped back into…

December is here. And I am pumped. Finally it’s time to bring out the Christmas music + just let it loop and shuffle and play from now until the New Year. Yep. I am…

When does something become a tradition? After doing it one time + then deciding to do it again one year later? If so, then I’ve stumbled upon a new Thanksgiving tradition for myself. A…

I’m thinking it’s time for a fun questions and answers post, because we all love a post with lists. And we all love learning random things about others. Plus, this one creates community and…

Autumn makes me feel nostalgic. It’s when the holiday season really kicks off; and, so, I always find myself remembering my childhood + all of the amazing holidays we celebrated (to the max!) in…

I do a post on the autumn equinox every year. Because I loooove it + because I find it important to mark the changing of the seasons. To marvel at how the light changes…

photo by jeremy trimnal photography. image by lier.se. Liz + Lina are back for a second season of their podcast! In today’s episode, hear a tiny bit about what they’ve been up to; but…

You guys, my 15 year old self, 20 year old self, and even 30 year old self would have never thought of myself as a Boss Woman. Like, for real. I mean, I felt…

My two posts about our whirlwind NYC visit this summer are already posted and now it’s time for the video blog = vlog! My amazing wife, Lina, has done a beautiful job gathering, creating,…

I should be flying high above the Atlantic Ocean right about the same time this blog posts. Eeeek! Finally my love + I are off to travel in the States for 2.5 weeks! And,…

It’s Friday + my love joins the on-vacation club today when she gets home from work! And that means that we are in major weekend, summer, and travel preparation mode right now. That’s a…

It’s now the middle of July + I thought it’d be the perfect time to offer some answers to the questions I posted for all of us in my celebratory halfway mark post for…

It’s 11AM on Monday + I am still in my pjs, sipping coffee, blogging, and celebrating my first official week of vacation! So, here’s the thing: last week ended up being half work +…