Do you have any idea how important it is to take care of your health by making positive choices? It’s everything! Your awareness and willingness …
Read More »5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Life And Be Happier
Making simple changes can be the most effective way to improve your life. When you make minor adjustments to your daily habits, the shift in …
Read More »4 Crucial Actions For Optimal Health And Wellness
The new year has arrived, and it has brought with it an ideal opportunity for growth and change. This includes improving your health and wellness. …
Read More »4 Important Considerations Before Getting Plastic Surgery
For some people, plastic surgery is an option to help an individual who may have been hurt, injured, or born with a genetic defect that …
Read More »5 Tips To Build A Career Around Your Personality And Dreams
Unfortunately, due to the way our society structures education and career-seeking, many young women find themselves walking down a very specific path in life. They …
Read More »4 Ways To Improve Your Health Now
Obtaining and holding onto a state of good health is a natural human desire. However, wanting something and actually getting it are two completely different …
Read More »4 Ways To Be Fashion-Fab Over 50
There was a time that hitting the big five-O was basically a fashion death sentence. It meant that you could no longer be hip, cool, …
Read More »Does Body Empowerment Promote Body Shame?
A quick internet search leads to endless articles about why you should come to terms with the way your body is. People who preach this …
Read More »3 Action Steps To End Bad Habits For Good
Habits, bad or good, develop over time. In other words, doing something once or twice doesn't constitute a life-change either way. If you've ever tried to end a "bad" one, you know that it can be challenging, to say the least. However, it's important to remember that it's not impossible! I find that focusing on bringing new, serving ways of doing things helps to diminish the desire to continue bad habits. For example, eating healthy and exercising might curb someone's appetite for smoking cigarettes. I also believe the following 3 action steps are necessary to end bad habits for good.
Read More »Just A Speed Bump…
Wow, I feel like it's been forever since I sat down to write a post! The out-of-state move has been a challenging time to say the least. But I'm back! Though I still have boxes to unpack and curtains to hang, I'm looking past the physical stuff for a bit to stare into my emotional self. Change is hard. And it can even feel like your whole world is imploding on you. I've run the wheel of emotions for the past few months, as we anticipated this move and the shift we would experience. And, yes, it's felt like one huge whirlwind at times! But, really, it's just a speed bump on the journey!
Read More »It’s Bananas!
Do you ever wonder why we continue to do things the same old way just because it's the way we were taught or it's the accepted way? I'm finding that I'm questioning everything I ever learned and wondering if there is better and more efficient ways to accomplish my goals. I'm pretty sure that there is, and I'm determined to find each and every one of them. As a part of my own self-development, I've realized that it's my responsibility to find the most serving ways to live, grow, and effect change for myself and the world around me.
Read More »Transitions
Wow! Life has sure changed in the last year since I’ve blogged. Let’s see, I moved from Virginia Beach to San Antonio, separated from the United States Navy and became a civilian for the first time in ten years, started working towards my Bachelor‘s Degree in Fashion Management and Marketing, and hmmm… oh yeah, I made another human being! Her name is Aysen, and I couldn’t be more excited about her coming into my life.
Read More »What Is Hope?
There is record of the word hope in English, though in varying form, dating back to before the twelfth century and even earlier in Hebrew. I have a good feeling that even before there was a word, there was an action- a longing, an expectation, an anticipation. It's like the human equivalent of an animal's instinct- a built in feature. Not to say that animals don't hope and humans don't have instinct. It could be that both of these things are interchangeable and innate with all life. We need hope to live, thrive, and find our purpose. That is why I am thankful to
Read More »Do Something More
The other day my friend, D, gave me a really cool stainless steel coffee cup that has a detachable plastic sleeve on it. It also came with a dry erase marker. It appeals to my artistic, whimsical self, as well as my coffee side. On Sunday, I decided I would write something inspirational on the cup and think on it throughout the day. I decided on "Do"
Read More »Is Chronic Migraine Curable? Part One: The Loudest Voice In My Head
You know that cliche that says you don't know what you have until it's gone? Well, recently I realized it applies to not only losing the good, serving things in your life but to the icky, shit hole ones too. I've been a chronic migraine and daily headache sufferer for over 13 years, and now...I'm not. What I'm about to share with you could change your life forever, so please read through this post. As to the cliche reference, well...allow me to explain:
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