LIVING REAL BLOG

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,...

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...

February 2026 | Living REAL with Heidi Coleman

I turn sixty this year.

Fire Horse year. Born 1966.

I've known about Chinese astrology for a long time. When I met my husband, we figured out together that I was born in a Fire Horse year—the combination that comes around once every sixty years. Twel...