Category: LIFESTYLE
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Navigating Life’s Turns
Allow yourself to transition with grace. Life is all about entering new phases and accepting the beauty of change and variability- this can be hard to acknowledge, especially if you’re experiencing hardships along the way. Imagine the route from your home to your favorite place. This could be a best friend’s house, your favorite coffee…
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Mantras and a Message for those Feeling Stuck
I understand as well as the next how detrimental cold air and a sun escaping before 4:30 can be to motivation and a willingness to make much of anything of the day. In my own experience growing up in New England, I’ve seen how effective a harsh winter can be at dissolving aspirations and New…
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A Move Towards Minimalism
What if I told you there was a way to save money, reduce stress, increase productivity and freedom all while helping the environment…attractive deal, right? All these factors and more can be attained by practicing minimalism. Minimalism: possibly the largest example of “easier said than done” in my book. For years I have been trying…
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Cold Shower, Hot Benefits
With the spring season near ready to switch to summer, the temperature is rising and so too is our desire for something refreshing. With this, I suggest that we all start partaking in the refreshing nature of cold showers; you may even be surprised at all the good it can do for you. In taking…
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Happiness is a Choice
Happiness is a choice. This is a big claim I know, and I am fully aware that I may have just dug myself into a bit of a hole here, but I promise you I can pull myself out and provide some explanation. Of course, there will always be factors out of our control that…
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Letting Go of What Does Not Serve You
It is not realistic to believe that everything that once mattered, or we were made to believe mattered, is going to remain important to you throughout your lifetime. In this sense, it is necessary to do a good purging of what you carry with you every day to satisfy your ever-changing needs, and this requires…
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Saving 2022 one Vision Board at a Time
It’s the end of January. For many, this marks the time where new year’s resolutions tend to get a little foggy (I don’t exclude myself from this group.) Since I know that there must be at least a few people out there ready and willing to resurrect whatever is left of their resolution from just…
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Romanticizing your Snow Day
I am currently typing this slumped down on my bed, bundled in all of my favorite comfy clothes all the way down to my fuzzy socks, alternating my gaze between the screen of my laptop and the portrait of a white landscape outside my window. So, it’s easy to see why my current state grants…
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Reasons Why You Should Have a Beef with Beef
With mouth watering steak, juicy burgers and beef tacos simply just existing, it’s easy to see why there is such a debate over red meat and whether it should be forgotten or remain favored. My stance though is that it should be kicked to the curb- and for more reasons than one. So, meat lovers,…
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Learning from Life Lessons
In 2019, my former neighbor who was sunshine embodied and whom I considered a second mother abruptly passed away from a heart aneurysm at age 48 while teaching a yoga retreat with her son in Vermont. The following year, my grandmother who, other than her old age and love for dessert, was fairly healthy died…
Alive and Well(ness) 