Intentional Calm

10/25/2026

What do you want more of in your life? ❤️

Not more responsibilities. Not another list of things to accomplish.

More of what makes you smile.

Maybe it's laughter, time with someone you love, a little peace and quiet, or simply noticing a beautiful sunrise before the day gets away from you.

Sometimes living intentionally means recognizing what's already good and choosing to give it more attention.

This week's Weekly Experience, *Choose What You Want More Of*, brings our October conversation about living intentionally to a close.

Come join the conversation!

Read the full article: [https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/10/choose-what-you-want-more-of.html]

10/21/2026

Celebrating my 7th year on Facebook for Intentional Calm Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

Was Facebook even a thing in 1996??? 30 years technically. Business "formally" began 1999. So I will save the big 30 for 2029!!! Lololol

10/18/2026

What a wonderful surprise! ❤️ There’s something so special about seeing Calming the Chaos being enjoyed out in the world! Thank you for sharing this moment. It truly means so much to me as the author!

And if anyone is curious about the book, you can learn more at www.IntentionalCalm.com. 📖❤️

Darlene Warner enjoying Calming the Chaos.

10/18/2026

What if some of life's best possibilities are the ones we haven't imagined yet?

We spend so much time planning, organizing, and thinking about what comes next.

And while there's certainly value in having a plan, there's also something wonderful about leaving room for the unexpected.

This week's *Weekly Experience* was inspired by a Jeep adventure along Parsons Branch Road in the Great Smoky Mountains.

A beautiful reminder that sometimes the road we hadn't planned to take becomes the one we remember most.

**Space Creates Possibility**

I hope this week's reflection encourages you to stay curious about what else might be possible.

Link below to full article.



https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/10/space-creates-possibility.html

10/11/2026

☕ **The Weekly Experience | When Did “Someday” Become the Plan?**

We all have those things we keep saying we'll do someday.

And we really do mean to get around to them!

But then life happens. Work gets busy. Responsibilities pile up. Another week goes by.

And someday keeps moving farther away.

This week, we're talking about finding little ways to enjoy the things that matter to us without waiting for everything to be perfect.

Because someday is a wonderful thing to look forward to.

**It just shouldn't be the only place we allow ourselves to live.** ❤️

Read this week's experience at IntentionalCalm.com.


https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/10/when-did-someday-become-plan.html

10/04/2026

What if the life you're building isn't being shaped primarily by your biggest decisions?

What if it's being built in all the ordinary ones?

Whether you take the walk.
Make the call.
Close the laptop.
Say yes.
Say no.
Make room for something you love.
Or keep telling yourself, "Maybe someday."

One choice probably won't change your life.

But our choices become patterns.

And our patterns become the way we live.

October's Weekly Experience theme is **Live Intentionally**:

*Now that I can hear myself, what am I choosing?*

This week's reflection:

**If I keep choosing this, what am I creating more of?**

And perhaps an even better question...

**What do I want more of in the life I'm building?**

This week's Weekly Experience is now on the blog. Link in bio. 💛

Calm first. Then move forward intentionally.

09/27/2026

Have you ever walked into a room and known almost immediately that something was off?

No one had to say anything.
You could just... feel it.

The interesting thing is, the opposite happens too.

Some people bring a steadiness with them that seems to help everyone else breathe a little easier.

This week's Weekly Experience is about something I've been thinking about as we close our September conversation on staying grounded:

Our calm doesn't stay with us.

It travels into our homes, our workplaces, our conversations, and the ordinary moments in between.

This week, we're talking about the ripple effect of what we bring into a room.

Calm Is Contagious

Read this week's Weekly Experience at IntentionalCalm.com.



https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/09/calm-is-contagious.html

09/22/2026

A milestone worth celebrating. ❤️

As of September 21, Calming the Chaos: The Intentional Calm Method™ is #3 on Balboa Press’s Best Sellers list.

I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has purchased, shared, recommended, or gifted the book. Watching this message reach more people — and hearing how readers are putting the tools into practice — has meant more than I can say.

Calm first. Then move forward.

09/20/2026

Have you ever caught yourself thinking:

*I should be further along by now.*

Further along in your career.
Your healing.
Your goals.
Your finances.
Your relationships.
Your plans for what comes next.

Here’s a question worth considering:

**Behind whom?**

We can spend so much time measuring our lives against timelines that were never ours in the first place.

This week’s Intentional Calm Weekly Experience is an invitation to put down the measuring stick.

Your life has its own seasons, detours, milestones and timing.

**You don’t have to match the world’s pace when the world isn’t living your life.**

Read this week’s Weekly Experience:
https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/09/you-dont-have-to-match-worlds-pace.html

09/13/2026

You don’t have to respond to everything at the speed it arrives.

That can be difficult to remember when emails, texts, requests, responsibilities and notifications are coming at us all day long.

When everything feels urgent, everything can begin to feel equally important.

But it isn’t.

Before deciding what to do next, try regulating first.

Take one slow breath and ask:

What is truly urgent?
What is important but can wait?
What feels urgent because someone else wants it now?
What doesn’t need my energy at all?

This is why State comes before Strategy in the Intentional Calm Method™.

The state we’re in affects the choices we make.

Calm doesn’t eliminate what needs to be done. It gives us a clearer place from which to decide what deserves our attention.

This week on the blog: When Everything Feels Urgent

https://www.intentionalcalm.com/2026/09/when-everything-feels-urgent.html

Calm first. Then move forward.