In Kristen We Brust

this is more than ballet flats and burgundy bags … a minute to close out the world and maybe close toe too. to know yourself and what you love is one of the greatest gifts. together we can tune in and up and sort our own september issues. 

i love you. too much. forever.

xoxo. kb.

a journey to yourself. a deeper learning of obedience to your beautiful intuition. this homecoming season is about returning to home...to yourself. slow to respond. slow to absorb. living slow. coming home to you has never been more stunning.

i love you. too much. forever.

xoxo. kb.

oh i love a little time with yall so much! welcome to season five! it's our "homecoming season." in the wild world of fast pace i am planting us here in homecoming. a frame of mind and of heart. a place where we can attempt to sharpen discernment and return back to valuing the most rare treasure of it all, our intuition. our knowing. our trust in ourselves. you are so stunning and so radiant and so so brilliant. this season is more fun, more vulnerable, more honest than ever. thank you for being here. thank you for always showing up. thank you for making a place for me. i am so honored to be next to you.

::: DEAR MAMA SERIES

the honor.  a few months ago i sat down inside a cozy, silent studio space at Edgehill Music Publishing with the other half of kb x kb, kristen blake. in our industry you know her has a talented itty bit that floats through wardrobe racks in her size nothing ballerina feet. pulling clothes and strings and landing impossible gets with her tight and trusted network of style superheroes near and far. 

in my world i know her has a really special and intentional mama, gigi, daughter, friend. over the years i have been blessed to get to know and create with kristen. we’ve spent a lot of hours purging both sides of the brust closet and all corners of our hearts. collaborating and ordering dinners and creating space for new ideas + new hangers. stories and tears and giggles surrounded in all the textures of loss, life, tulle and satin. 

today’s Dear Mama episode of In Kristen We Brust is to honor a story that is not mine to tell. a twenty year anniversary of sorts that is powerful and the definition of motherhood. a really tender and beautiful collection of years and heartbeats that have waited to have a place to tuck in and feel safe. a story i have been privileged and trusted with knowing and now… sharing. i am beyond grateful for the raw, delicate way my best friend showed up in my life. today i am beyond grateful for the way she will show up in your’s. 

kb- thank you for trusting me to be the one to give your story and your girls life in airwaves. twenty years of holding and healing. of floating and now landing in hearts beyond your own. you and madeline have lived so eloquently inside of this story for two decades. i am so proud of the people and mamas you are. this is beautiful and your angel girl is beaming.

come snuggle in with me while we take the lids off our lives and breathe some air into the dreams and plans that we have shelved. a little chit chat about the road back to you with your road trip buddy riding shotgun. i love you too much. xoxo kb

happy mama day! i love you. too much. forever.

whew. safe harbors. pockets of comfortably settling into a season of deep knowing. we, as a village, are finding some places that by definition provide protection. refuge. comfort. ::: safe harbors

as we press in we understand the rarity and absolute sanctity of these people. we also learn that creating safety starts with communication. trusting ourselves to know what we know. to listen to what God has for us. to know we are a harbor in ourselves. 

i love you. too much. like more than a lighthouse. yep. that much. 

xoxo :::kb

moving into love month. ahhhhh. a deep breath and a little arm's length. we kick off this month taking freedom filled breaths and deciding what we want in our orbit. a spirit of already having enough as we are - that sweet spot feeling of CHOOSING to bring into the inner circle. rest for a minute in the knowing. we are really existing in a powerful energy, we just need our noise canceling headphones for the swirling pieces of untruth trying to take our peaceful power. put those on after this chat ok? i am so proud to walk this world with you. i love you. too much. forever. :::kb.

oh me say goodbye to you? no chance! but the farewell party has started for all of us. it’s time to give ourselves permission to find and hold the things that keep any part of us captive. and then like a high school break up, we will tell those parts “it’s not you, it’s me” and we will start the freedom phase of living. and until we nail it, we will keep revisiting. so, get in here. i’ve got some things i need to tell you about me and where i pray this freedom phase takes us all. 

i love you. too much. forever. xoxo :::kb. 

...and happy friend•iversary to us! if i wished a thousand wishes, 999 of them would be about how this community would continue to grow and feel like full on love. FOUR FULL LIFE FILLED YEARS TOGETHER YALL!

after i talk birthday•ing ((yes i make up words way too often)), i have a little message about the slow + go of a new year. slow to make resolutions, quicker to make healthy habits, prayerful steps of light and more light.

we are widening our hearts and visions this year, sweet friends. so much beautiful time ahead. twenty twenty FOUR is our year -duh. i love you. too much forever. xoxo ::: kb.