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Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: Three Steps To Owning Your Power

Today we're digging deep into how we can start overcoming our limiting beliefs. We all have a little friend whispering to us inside our heads - sometimes she's as silent as a whisper, other times as loud as a scream. However loud or quiet she is, she's there, ready to voice her opinion at the moments she deems necessary. Maybe it's when we are about to take a step outside of our comfort zone, perhaps it's when you find yourself in the dressing room of a clothing store. Whenever your friend decides to rear her head, her words have likely been with you[...]

NEW TO SELF-CARE?, Personal Development, Self-Care

What Is Self-Care, Really?

Self-care is the buzz word of 2018. It has become a trendy thing to take care of yourself, which is wonderful because it is promoting health and wellness for ourselves. And that is GREAT. But people are lacking the knowledge of what self-care really is. In fact, it is so vaguely defined that a lot of people don’t really have a solid grasp of what the heck it even means. It’s just that kind of wishy-washy word tossed around here and there. Self-care is actually an important thing for our health and I hope that after reading this you might leave[...]

Mindset, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Get Out of a Bad Mood in 3 Easy Steps

Sometimes, bad moods are inescapable. For whatever reason, you're experiencing a day, or a week, or a month, where you're just not yourself. That's okay! I try to put out good energy, be good energy, and be someone who always has a smile easily available for whoever needs it. I think we all aspire to be that kind of person but some days, some weeks, it's hard. And that's okay. While it's important to sit with all of our emotions, even the negative, there comes a point where the more we wallow in it, the worse it becomes. And we start to take our bad[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

The Importance of Taking Care of Your Introvert Self

I have always been an introvert. On the Myer-Briggs scale, I am considered an INFP personality type: introverted (energized by time alone rather than with others), intuitive (focuses on ideas/concepts rather than details/facts, feeling (makes decisions based on feelings/values), and perceiving (spontaneous/flexible rather than organized/planned). While I've never paid for a professional test, all of the ones I've done have come up with the same answer and nearly everything about an INFP rings true for me.As a pre-teen and teenager, I was both an intr[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care, Travel

7 Steps To Get Over Travel Burnout

We've had a conversation about post-travel depression here in the past, but what about when you're actually on the road and feeling a bit.. bleh? Have you ever had the realization that the things you used to love about traveling were only weighing you down? Have you stopped feeling inspired and excited about the places you were going and instead, don't feel much of anything? Or you're feeling constantly exhausted and couldn't really care less if you were in that beautiful destination or at home? If so, you might have been experiencing something called travel burn[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

New Year’s Eve Rituals To Celebrate With More Meaning

New Year's Eve is one of the most powerful opportunities to re-focus and begin creating and setting meaningful intentions for the year ahead. And what better way than with a few New Year's Eve rituals? In the past, this time of year was all about attending a crazy party and setting "new year's resolutions" that usually revolved around getting skinny and falling in love. Over the last four years, I've practiced a different kind of New Year's tradition that focuses entirely on creating time for myself and going into the new year with clarity, commitment and an i[...]

Tips, Planning and Packing, Travel

4 Signs You Need To Quit Your Job And Travel ASAP

So, you've graduated college and here you are - the real world. It was exciting at first; your very own desk, a work phone, your name on a shiny gold nameplate at the front of your desk. You even had free reign to personalize your office space - you had your seashell collection from around the world in a mason jar, some inspirational quotes, perhaps some flamingos hanging from the ceiling? If you were going to be spending the majority of your life in this office, it was going to be a place you wanted to be. At the very least, it would remind you of the best momen[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Stop Apologizing For Laughing Too Much: 4 Ways Laughter Leads To A Better Life

There was a moment in my life when I did the unthinkable. I was sitting in the front row of my late uncle’s funeral service. Somebody was up at the podium, delivering a tear-stained speech, and I was sitting there, listening. But I was also thinking about a time I had spent with him, a hilarious moment where laughter had been contagious and we had both gotten belly aches from laughing too hard. So I did the unthinkable. One of the most horrific social taboos at a funeral: I laughed. A bubbling giggle erupted from within, and I laughed in the middle of a very s[...]