Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines shares how she 'nurtured' herself back from a place of 'unbalance'
hellomagazine.comMagnolia Network star Joanna Gaines has opened up on recent hard times, sharing with fans how she "nurtured" herself back from a place of "unbalance".MORE: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thingThe mom-of-five wrote a new essay for the Spring issue of Magnolia Journal, the quarterly lifestyle magazine she publishes with her husband, Chip, and shared that she found herself in a rough patch in late 2021, "unbalanced by how much I was pouring out without being poured into in the ways I really needed."WATCH: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thing"I was learning that a well that's only ever knee-deep can't outlast a drought and that I had to figure out what it was that would pull me out of the grind and give me renewed perspective," she shared.The 43-year-old continued that she "considered what I'm already drawn to, what I already know wakes me up and brings me life — nature, the garden, being in my kitchen, and the peace that meets me there — and I leaned in".MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's lavish Nashville home could rival a palaceHowever, although her family "joked that I'd gone a little extreme" she found comfort and solace in the action of reading, gardening and canning "just about anything" and that it left her, for the first time in a long time, feeling "full, truly full"."And at the end of those days, I was bursting with so much more to give.
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