LIVING REAL BLOG
Stories of transformation
from exhausting love
to authentic living
June 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
I have said things I meant as love that didn't land as love. I've also been on the receiving end — words offered kindly that felt, to me, like a verdict. I know both sides of that gap. I've lived in both places. And I'm still learning, probably every week,...
March 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
I have been sitting with a word for three months and I am only now letting myself say it out loud.
Not because I didn't know it. Because I was embarrassed by it.
The word is tend.
As in: tend your nervous system. Tend your marriage. Tend your grief. Te...
March 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
My husband bought me a trailer.
Not as a joke, not as a grand gesture — as a practical act of love. I was spending a lot of time at my folks’ house, helping care for my mom, and the house was full in the way houses get when life has been lived hard in th...
Some years, the holidays arrive with sparkle and ease. Some years, they arrive with a weight you didn’t plan for.
This year, mine arrived quietly — and with loss.
My childhood friend Matthew died on December 4.
We met in third grade — two kids who understood each other long before either of us real...
