LIVING REAL BLOG
Stories of transformation
from exhausting love
to authentic living
May 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
My mother lived without regret.
Not because she had none. Everyone has regrets. She just did not live inside them.
She owned what she did. When she made a mistake, she said so, cleaned it up if she could, and moved on. She did not rehearse old conversatio...
April 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
A friend texted me two words this week: big emotions.
It was her answer to "how was your trip?"
I didn't need more than that. I knew exactly what she meant. And I've been thinking about those two words ever since — about how sometimes they're the only h...
April 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman
Earlier this week after work I sat down, logged into my dad's medical portal, pulled his test results and summary, saved them, and emailed them to him and my brother so everyone would have them.
Nobody asked me to do it that way. I just did it.
That was...
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...
