Sharing our "Marriage Board" (7 videos): How To Make Your Own
Life gets busier and bigger, if you are lucky, so let me show you my way to reconnect with important relationships, whether to another or yourself.
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5 minute read / 7 short videos
About two years ago, I made what I’ll call our Marriage Board. That sounds alarmingly self-aware and cringey, like a Dr. Phil segment title. It is not. Don’t worry.
It is a simple DIY crafting activity with solid emotional impact. If you are married, I highly recommend making a Marriage Board for your relationship. And if you are not married, I highly recommend making a Self Board to archive and honor yourself.
When you make your own, there are four non-negotiable tenants:
Keep it pleasing: Part of the fun is to spend time making the physical board beautiful, whatever that means to you. I share in the video below how I made mine and give ideas for your own.
Keep it simple: I’ve found that anything meant to be enriching and enjoyable is stripped of both qualities as soon as you try to make it perfect. This is not about creating an encompassing archive of your entire relationship or life; nor is it a perfect Pinterest board that you’d want to show-and-tell. I detail the mission in the videos below.
Keep it focused: For a Marriage Board, you can only use items featuring the relationship. For a Self Board, you can only use items items featuring the history of you. In the videos, I explain how this is not a mood board or inspiration board.
Keep it private: The Board should be kept somewhere for your eyes only. In these videos, I share where our Board is kept and why that matters. If you make a Self Board, even if you live alone, I share ideas of where to put it, and it’s not on the refrigerator or bathroom mirror.
Enough describing; let’s get to showing.
Below are 6 show-and-tell videos of our own Marriage Board. I show you, along with a detailed written How To below, (1) how to make the Board, (2) where to keep the Board, (4) what to put on the Board, (5) tips for a Self board, and (6) parting words of encouragement.
I share something I felt guilty about doing, share a letter I wrote to myself in 2020, a short term and long term goal that Phil and I have, and show you something special from our wedding (that I also fibbed about at the wedding, hehe).
I offer a few ideas to inspire your own Board, with variations and options to get you started.
I also share links to a fantastic little tidbit that I love to pin to the Board and replace with another every once in a while to spark some interesting conversation, whether a Marriage Board or Self Board. It’s fun.
I hope you enjoy this simple, uplifting way to honor the most important relationships in your life, including to yourself. I can’t wait to see what you come up with for your own.
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