Makeup industry expert Kelli Bartlett tells fans how to recreate Gaines' look Joanna Gaines is "pausing" to reflect on her "busy life," an effort she admits is "uncomfortable." "I’m a fixer, a refiner—and in some ways I’ve made a career out of sharpening the instinct that draws my eye toward the off-balance and out of sync," Gaines wrote for the fall issue of Magnolia Journal on Monday in a column titled "A Note from Jo: The Sound of Harmony" that was first shared with People magazine. "The part that can be harder is the pausing.
" The former "Fixer Upper" star, who runs the Magnolia home brand with husband Chip Gaines, continued, "Turning my gaze inward. Looking curiously at the chaos of my own busy life to try to create some order or fine-tune a few too-familiar ways of living that may no longer serve me. Because, while self-reflection is healthy and good and necessary, it can be uncomfortable.
It can be quiet. It can go slow. It can make you second-guess, well, everything.
" She admitted that she is forced to reflect in each of her quarterly columns for the magazine, "but left to my own devices, I’m not convinced I’d volunteer to tune in to my yeses and nos long enough to see if more thought would have me choose differently. I’m more likely to tell myself that the timing is no good now and that I’ll have more capacity once we get through this busy season or after the next project crosses the finish line." JOANNA GAINES SHARES EMOTIONAL GOODBYE WITH SON AS HE LE.