Are you considering taking a road trip with your kids this summer? There’s nothing better than hitting the open road with your family. Summer is a great time to get out there and explore new places. Road trips can be fun, but it’s essential to plan a road trip ahead of time so everything goes …
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There’s no denying it. Meal planning takes work. And when you are on a strict budget and want to make healthy meals for your family, meal planning may seem daunting. But creating a healthy meal plan your family will love is possible, even when your funds are limited. The key is to combine concepts of …
Self-care is one of the most important things you can do in your daily routine to maximize your inner peace, increase your confidence and productivity, and improve your relationships. Still, as with so many aspects of life, it can be easier said than done. Using positive quotes helps you remember to make caring for yourself …
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When it comes to self-care, some of the activities people often think about typically include bubble baths, reading, relaxing, participating in hobbies, and those sorts of things. These are all amazing and may help uplift your mental wellness, but they often aren’t enough on their own. There are also self-care activities you may already be …
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Whether we consciously mean to or not… we all allow stressful emotions to subconsciously impact our lives. When we get stressed out, more often than not we bury it deep down, suppressing it from bothering us. Why? Because that is easier than doing the emotional healing needed. Also, because most of the time our parents …
Whether you’ve lost someone close to you or you’ve lost yourself, grief is a powerful emotion to move through. It tips your world upside down and inside out in the most beautifully frustrating ways. Did you know… 1 in 5 children experience the death of someone close to them by age 18 At any given …
No doubt about it, control is a huge issue. Whether you are feeling controlled by other people, or you are trying to grasp every opportunity to control every aspect of your life. This leads to feeling fearful, stuck, and as though you aren’t truly living your life, causing anxiety, depression, and feeling cantankerous. With these …
Have you said it before? “Every single time I try to _______, ______ happens.” Proving to yourself over and over and over again that you just can’t break free from the cycle that binds you. For many people, their toxic environment perpetuates excuses why they just can’t win. And that begs the question… can you …
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Living with chronic pain doesn’t have to be totally consuming of your life. You can make small changes that make a huge impact. Love your life through finding purpose… [Read More]
I’ll never forget… those 8 excruciatingly long years living in my own version of Hell. I’ve shared my wellness journey over at our But You Don’t Look Sick post… but I hadn’t taken the time to actually spill my heart on video… until now… Seizures Mobility difficulty Cognitive difficulty Chronic weakness Chronic fatigue Chronic pain Severe, …
The best aspect of the English language is the wide variety of words to use to describe different things we experience. There are a plethora of words to choose from when describing what we see, think, feel, taste, hear, and understand. Words can be beautiful. Words can be terrifying. Words can be indifferent. The worst …
What do you do when your mind just won’t stop? It’s that moment again… at the most inopportune time, your mind decides to race, keeping you awake, preventing you from focusing, or completely distracting you from your mountain of “to-do list” entries. We have personal experience going from overthinking to finding inner peace. In this …
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If you’re scrambling to grasp at proverbial straws to regain some sort of sense of control in your life, then you need this one simple tip! Are you too much of a control freak? Do these statements sound familiar? If your coworker or significant other would just change one or two things about him/herself, then …
Moving. You would think someone who has spent most her life moving would have a system to help keep things organized and keep the stress minimal. While enlisted in the Navy, I picked up even more efficient systems for moving. Then… I married a military man and our moves became much more complicated. We are …
Every day you wake up to a new day, even though sometimes your days are so similar they seem to melt together in your memories, making you feel stuck in monotony to the point where you’re stuck thinking “Now what?” I know this feeling all too well. After separating from the Navy in 2008, I …
I just read an article on LinkedIn that has me thinking. One of my 2nd level connections, Oleg Vishnepolsky, wrote: A group of students was asked to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World. Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: Egypt’s Great Pyramids Taj Mahal …
You hear it all the time… You need to take care of yourself. You’re too burned out and need some YOU time. You can’t forget about YOU BUT… Taking time out for yourself means taking time away from everything else… like your career or your family… do you really have time for that? Realizing that, you …
Whether you work from home, work outside of the home, or you stay at home with the kids… one thing we all have in common: STRESS. Thankfully there are several ways you can use to reduce stress naturally. Stress can be a total career killer… and mood killer… We all have those moments… feeling pulled …
Do you sometimes feel so enraged with anger you literally can’t see straight? You know… that moment when you feel that vibrational change resonating throughout your body that tingles up from your core, out each of your extremities simultaneously. That radiating energy rapidly, yet slowly, radiates up the inside of your head through your spine, …
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Have you ever thought of one of the following thoughts? Money shouldn’t be spent Opportunities are limited Risk is dangerous Success is temporary Then you could be holding yourself back, and not even realize it! Your mindset – the way you think – could be causing you to look at successful people and assume they were …
Feeling overwhelmed is not an easy state of mind to be in. Thankfully, with the right mindset and determination, you can overcome overwhelm.Your heart rate increases. Your stress never seems to dwindle. You feel paralyzed without any choice or ability to drag yourself out. I’ve definitely had my share of a life lived in complete …
Fear. It holds you back from more than it should. Why? That is a great question! Personally, I feel as though we are more fearful than we need to be, largely because of societal expectations put on us at a young age. Perhaps it is because as children we often hear “no” from our parents …
This post about the day I chose not to kill myself was a difficult one to write, a difficult one to publish, and may be difficult for you to read. Today is one of those days. It’s the worst part about being a disabled veteran. The day you receive that phone call, email, or text …
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” – The Book of Proverbs, verse 27:17 While that is a biblical quote, I am not going to drag you down the rabbit hole of forcing any religion on anyone. However, some of the lessons found in each piece of religious literature does provide valuable …
Anxiety. It’s that adrenaline rush anchored down by the pit in your stomach and covered up by the lump in your throat. It’s that overwhelming feeling that everyone around you is staring and judging.It’s that obsessive nervous inner turmoil that stops your productivity in its tracks. Anxiety comes in all different shapes and sizes. It is …
I’ve had a lot on my mind this month, as is always sparked by additional reflecting that comes with this time of year. The reoccurring theme seems to see the need to find your happy place.I’ve noticed more and more posts in my social media news feeds recently that can be summed up as a multitude …
What do you do when life has you down so far that all you can see are your failures among the success of everyone else you know? That, my friends, is the million dollar question for so many of us. Sometimes you end up stuck so far in the suck that you don’t know where to begin …