Tag: LIFESTYLE
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Alternative Holiday Ideas – Give Back to the Land, not the Landfills

Each Christmas season over 3 million tons of waste are generated – this doesn’t exactly scream holiday spirit to me. In an effort to help you do good and feel good in this season of giving, below are 5 alternative options to make your holidays a bit more sustainable and kind. Let’s give back to…
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The Enemy of Good is Better

Growing up, my Mom often repeated the phrase, “the enemy of good is better.” I think of these words often in my days and weeks- typically in mundane tasks like trying to fix my ponytail and only making it worse or tweaking a perfectly fine recipe and ending up with rock hard chocolate chip cookies,…
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Gather Around the Table

I want you to imagine a very loud room. Everyone’s talking over each other, you can’t make out if someone is laughing or crying and the person sitting next to you just wants to tell their version of the story… by the way, welcome! You’ve now accurately created an image of any dinner party with…
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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…

