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Last month I started creating a wellness coloring book. In the process I developed a framework for Resting While You Wait:

💞Rest
💙Reflect
💞Respond
💙Release

Resting While You Wait Framework 💞💙 Feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck in the waiting? 💜Here’s ...

✨ Take Charge Tuesday ✨

Healing, growth, and creativity all require intention.

Before the world asks anything of you today, pause.

📝 Write what’s on your heart for 10 minutes.
🙏🏽 Sit with God, gratitude, affirmations, or stillness for 10 minutes.

Because wellness isn’t only about resting.

Sometimes wellness looks like returning to yourself.

How do you combine writing and wellness?

Have you been thinking about writing a book but not sure where to begin? 📚✨

For the month of June, I’m offering FREE 30-minute author consultations for aspiring and upcoming authors through LindarInsights.

Whether you have a book idea, questions about self-publishing, Canva formatting, journals, KDP, cover design, or simply feel stuck on what to do next. This time is for YOU.

You don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Sometimes all it takes is clarity, encouragement, and a plan to move your vision forward. 💞

If God placed a story, message, journal, devotional, workbook, or book idea in your heart this may be your sign to stop waiting and start moving.

✨ Free for the month of June only
✨ 30-minute consultations
✨ Personalized guidance for your next steps

Book your session here:
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Your voice. Your vision. Your victory. 💜

“From Manuscript to Marketplace” Consultation - Arlinda McKinley Thinking about writing or self-publishing a book, but not sure where to begin? Whether you have an idea, a manuscript in progress, questions about Canva, KDP, journals, cover design, pricing, or simply need help figuring out your next step, this free June consultation is designed to bring clarity to

It’s National Iced Tea Day!!! 🍋

Who has the best iced tea?

(Side note: Did you know watch Joe’s Tiny Desk Concert? It’s 🔥🔥🔥)

Because somewhere between surviving, grieving, healing, and becoming, Mahjong tiles became a quiet place of joy on my phone. The more I played, the more I thought my tiles that were tucked away in my family game cabinet.

Rediscovering Mahjong For years, I thought that because I lost the instructions to my Mahjong game, I would never have any use for them. Now I consider that ma...

Often times we are out searching for things that God never intended for us to have. We get our feelings hurt, our heart broken and then we go to God in despair.

Sometimes, at least for me, I hear God say, “I know you’re hurting but I never wanted that for you. You wanted that for yourself.”

Ouch. That hurts. ❤️‍🩹

Chase what matters.

Chase What Matters From ~ Morning Mannah 10.17.16 Good Morning. I pray that your day is getting off to a wonderful start. I’ve already started to ask God to bl...

As May comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on a month filled with gratitude, growth, healing, faith, creativity, and quiet becoming. Some moments stretched me, some restored me, and some gently reminded me that growth does not always happen loudly.

This month held answered prayers, lessons, softness, writing, reflection, and the continued journey of resting while I wait. I am deeply grateful for every breakthrough, every moment of clarity, every reminder to trust divine timing, and every opportunity to keep becoming the woman God is calling me to be.

Thank you, May, for the memories, the growth, and the grace. 💞✨

What words describe the month of May for you?

Yesterday, I began thinking of a redesign for the cover of my first book. It took me back to how my writing journey began. 👩🏽‍💻

If 2009 Arlinda could sit across from 2026 Arlinda, I believe she would be proud of her. 🥹🥰

LindarInsights Your Voice. Your Vision. Your Victory.