Why I Switched to a Free Blog

I have been writing for years. I never knew how much I would love to spend my time sharing words on a screen, with people I don't know in real life, and may never meet until I took a leap of faith and started typing. I found that I love encouraging other women as they go along their day-to-day living, along with coming alongside them as they walked the path God has laid out before, hopefully, helping them to live a life that is filled with excitement, purpose, and faith.

For me, it was about inspiring women to LIVE as God wants us to, not just exist.

Somewhere along the way, I got lost.


I started getting so consumed with the numbers, the stats, analytics, followers, etc. Hosting companies became a problem because they didn't want to do their jobs and started frustrating me to no end. Then there came all of the social media must-dos. I don't mind social media, but it became a point of obsession and started taking over all of my time, knowing that I must keep things going to continue to grow.

So, because of all of this, I started pulling away from writing, little by little. It because more of a chore instead of something I really enjoyed doing. I found myself getting discouraged and second guessing every single thing I put out into the world. I had lost my spark for writing, encouraging, and inspiring other women.

I was completely burned out. The passion was gone.

When I was writing on a free site, I never worried about all of the extra stuff. I just wrote and put my heart out there.

Things were simple.

Now, I am working on finding my way back to writing and encouraging women. Exactly what my heart calls me to do.

Recently I have been taking the time to find myself again. I have been lost for a while, but that's a whole other blog post. In my soul searching, I found that I really missed putting my thoughts, feelings, heart, and faith out into the world. It was something that I really loved doing, but veered away from because of all the extra stresses.

We are getting to the point where I am at now.

I chose to switch back to a free blog so that I could focus on writing again. I have realized that I am done with the numbers game. Done with all of the analytics. Done with all of the behind the scenes stress-inducing "stuff."

At least, I am done for now.

Will I eventually go back to self-hosted with my own website? Yes! But for now, I just want to be able to write again. Get back into the swing of things, all without having to deal with the extra stress, for the moment.

I hope you will follow along with me as I journey the path to finding myself again, share some encouragement to help you live your life fully, and hopefully inspire and connect to a few of you amazing women out there.

I am going back to the motto I had when I started...

If I only reach and inspire one woman, then I have accomplished what I set out to do.

"Every day is a new beginning, take a deep breath and start again." ~Anonymous