Welcome to our HomeBody Blog

First- we’re so glad you’re here. Thanks for taking a moment to check in with us. The past few months have been full and exciting: planning, researching, preparing, and launching a new business have kept both of us very busy. We love the community we’re growing at HomeBody Collective- through yoga classes and Biblical Life Lessons, through Creative Workshops, and through plans for our upcoming retreat.

Aside from connecting on the website and in person at the studio, we want to add some helpful content on the blog as a companion to what we’re doing in the studio each week. We have a specific theme for each month that connects our yoga practices and our Life Lessons for that period of time, and our blog will reflect that. Each week of the month, we will publish a blog based on our theme, either focused on nurturing body, soul, heart, or home, which are deeply connected to our values at HomeBody. We hope they add value and bless each of you.

Love,

Ann & Kathleen

Guarding your Heart without Closing it Off

As September rolls forward, fall scents in the air and wishes for cooler temperatures prevalent in our North Texas home, our focus at HomeBody is balance and harmony.

Consider the balance within our hearts- they’re both tender and powerful. They carry joy, love, dreams, and pain. Proverbs 4:23 urges us: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Guarding the heart is essential—but sometimes we swing to extremes, either leaving it too vulnerable or closing it off completely. Neither of those extremes is healthy and will bring nothing close to balance in our emotional health. So how do we guard our hearts and still find balance and harmony?

Guarding your heart doesn’t mean responding to being hurt by building walls of fear, bitterness, or mistrust, an attempt to keep anyone else from ever hurting us again. It does means setting boundaries that protect the life God has planted within you. Jesus modeled this balance beautifully. He loved deeply, yet John 2:24 tells us He did not entrust Himself to everyone. He gave freely, but with discernment.

Healthy boundaries protect your heart without making your heart hard. They allow you to love generously without becoming drained or resentful. A balanced heart stays open to God and to people, while wisely discerning where to invest our time and trust.

When wounds come—and they will—healing keeps us from shutting down is available to us. God’s love restores us so that we can continue to give and receive love. And in all things, 1 Corinthians 13 reminds us what love truly looks like: patient, kind, enduring, and never failing.

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