What To Teach Your Child To Enable Independence We all want to do the best for our children, but life skills may not be at the forefront of our minds. We love them, we care for them, and we try to make their lives the brightest that we can within our abilities. But with that, we sometimes do a little too much. Our children need certain life skills to get along in the continue reading...
EMPOWER YOURSELF
Learning how to empower yourself is a journey, but a very exciting and uplifting one!
You are strong, you are resilient, you smart and you are capable, you just have to build the tools to remind yourself. Here you can learn how to feel empowered, how to feel positive, how to set boundaries, and how to stay healthy during the challenging and less challenging times.
Empowering yourself isn't just finding the answers, but learning the questions to ask - of yourself and other people.
Find the self care steps that you may not have known were the right moves to empower yourself. The path is up ahead, you just have to learn how to put one foot in front of the other in the most healthy way possible.
Why It Is Important To Take Care Of Yourself First
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. When we are little, we are taught to care about other people. We are taught how to sympathize, how to empathize and how to treat others as we'd want to be treated. These are very important life skills, but there is one missing. Before you can do anything for anyone else, it is extremely continue reading...
Hang On Tight – It Is Not Over Yet
You guys, I'm beat. I know I'm not alone, but I want you to know that you are not alone either. I am depleted and desperately wishing for some alone time to recharge. I love my family to the tiniest of little pieces, but if you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of anyone else. And this is difficult. Did you ever see the slightly older version of Little Women? continue reading...
How To Maintain Confidence While Dealing With Incontinence
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. When you are someone who lives with bladder leakage, it can be really easy to get down on yourself. You feel badly about what you have to deal with every day and insecure about how you may look to others. Even if no one in the world knows, it can be difficult to maintain confidence while dealing continue reading...
How To Calm Your Mind When You Can’t Sleep
How To Relax So That You Can Sleep Trying to get to sleep can be daunting from time to time. Overwhelming stress and everyday life make it hard to shut down when it’s time for bed. It is as if your brain is finally able to relax and all it wants to do is go over every minute detail from your day. It can be difficult to calm your mind. If you find that your mind races continue reading...
How To Get Better At Coping With Change
How To Best Cope with Change Coping with change can be an uncomfortable experience. It’s not easy when we’re living our lives, going along, minding our own business and BAM, change happens. No matter what changes you are coping with, I understand how you’re feeling. We are never quite ready for the unexpected. How can we be? Most of us are creatures of habit in one way or continue reading...
How To Lower Parental Stress In The Summer
Managing Parental Stress When school is out for the summer, many parents feel conflicted. It is an exciting time where there is a break from homework, getting up early, catching the bus, and studying for exams. It is also a time where life seems a little busier - or less busy, depending on your lifestyle. Parental stress is a real thing. Regardless of whether you are continue reading...
How To Set Realistic Expectations For Yourself
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. Since the winter of 2020, things have changed. Our daily lives and constant updates from the news and medical community have put us on edge and made tasks much more difficult. But the truth is that - at least for now - the world is different and we have to be different in it. If you are continue reading...
How To Keep Your Chin Up And Maintain Your Confidence
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. With so much staying at home and all of the pressure and news from the media, it is a natural thing to feel like you're down in the dumps. It is easy to feel negatively about the situation with the virus, the current state of the world, your personal situation, and - ultimately - yourself. continue reading...
Love Yourself A Little Extra Right Now
Do you go into each new day thinking, great, it's a day? It's not Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, it's just another day? For many of us - working or not, parents or not, living with other people or not - each day is just another day. How do we differentiate one day from the next other than "I pick up Chipotle every Thursday" or "I talk to this person every Saturday?" We really continue reading...