Finding easy and effective ways to practice self love will make the days easier. You can't take care of others if you don't take care of you! Ideas For Practicing Self Care This time is difficult. There is a lot going on and even when things get back to normal (and eventually they will), we need to get in the habit of practicing self love. In order to take care 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.
What Is Your Love Language?
Find Your Love Language In this day and time, it can be really difficult to feel fulfilled. We are all just hanging on, having gone through a most difficult year and not exactly sure what this next one will look like. We have hopes and dreams and desires that are unmet because we are all on hold. So, let's get back to basics. Have you ever thought about your love continue reading...
Love Is Worth Speaking Out Loud
So much has been written about love. We all have favorite songs and movies, photos and drawings, notes and memories that revolve around love. Whether that love is something you've experienced for yourself, had and lost or have seen in others, I think most of us have a good idea of what love is - or what it is supposed to be. The thing about love is that there are all continue reading...
Managing A New Kind Of Holiday Stress
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. While the holidays are something that many of us look forward to each year, they often come with their own kind of stress. Where will you seat everybody for dinner? How are we going to balance visiting all of the families in one day? How are we doing to make sure that there is something for continue reading...
A Chosen Family Is Also A Real Family
Family Isn't Always Blood When you think of the word "family," several images may come to mind. You may have snapshots of good or difficult experiences you've had with your own, or the pictures that many of us drew as a child - two adults, two kids, a box-house with a triangle roof, and maybe a pet. But further than the image of what "family" is, the word may evoke continue reading...
Fun Ideas For Socially Distant Holiday Celebrations
This post was made in partnership with Depend® brand. All opinions are my own. With the holidays upon us, I know we're all wishing for a time in the last few years when things looked "normal." When we could get together with our families, hug and kiss our loved ones, and sit around a big table in an indoor living room where we could laugh together (or fight together?) for continue reading...
Incontinence – It’s Not Just A Woman’s Issue
Insecurities are a part of life. We all have them and on some level, we are all managing the feelings that go with them. When you are a woman who is managing incontinence it can be embarrassing, but there is a lot of public support out there. Most women over the age of 21 know what a Kegel is, whether or not we've ever needed to do them, it comes up in common continue reading...
You Can’t Always Be In Control
I am someone who likes to be in control. Not in control of you or my children or any other person, but of myself. I like to know that at the end of the day, most of what I succeed or fail at is my own doing. That I am in control of my own destiny. But there are many - MANY - things in this life that we can't control. The world doesn't work that way and I'm pretty sure continue reading...
What Major Life Skills Do Young People Need Before Moving Out?
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...
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...