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Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

6 Ways To Feel Grounded When You’re Overwhelmed

get your hands in the dirt, mud, clay, paint, etc. There is something inherently grounding about getting your hands in the earth. So many avid gardeners and plant lovers are out there talking about how grounding and calming it is to get their hands in the soil. Scientific studies have been done about this very topic, showing interesting results claiming that gardening can provide health benefits like reducing depression and anxiety, improving life satisfaction and improving mood. For most, getting our hands in the dirt actually boosts our serotonin - aka the ha[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

3 Things To Stop Doing To Live a Life You Love

Are you feeling stuck in a life that doesn't even feel like yours? Craving the ability to live a life you love? Making decisions that end up feeling all wrong? If you're in a loop of dissatisfaction with the life you're living then chances are you may have fallen victim to one of three common life traps, or what I call: The Big Three. When you pull yourself out of the temptation of The Big Three, you'll notice massive shifts beginning to take place in your life. And these shifts will, over time, lead you to living a life you love. I know, it seems to[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

9 Ways To Reduce Stress + Boost Energy

Today I'm sharing 9 simple ways to reduce stress and boost your energy. If you're frequently experiencing heightened levels of stress (or maybe your typical state of being is one within that higher stress threshold), you're not alone. And, you're in the right place! We're living in a world that values hard work and "hustle". Talk of resting, taking a break, doing things simply for the sake of adding more joy or peace into your day are met with eye rolls. Even the most well-intentioned person planning on taking a break from the chaos often finds the[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

4 Self-Love Rituals To Try This Valentine’s Day

Valentine's Day gets a bad rap for being a cheesy Hallmark holiday but it breaks my heart when I hear people say that they don't celebrate Valentine's Day, that they hate Valentine's Day, the "anti-Valentine's Day" movement. After all, Valentine's Day is what you choose to make it and love is love. Of course, self-love (and love in general) shouldn't be limited to one day a year but being reminded to share and receive love is always a good thing. Let this be the year that you start creating a new Valentine's Day tradition by incorporating meaningful self-love[...]

Goal-Getters, Personal Development, Self-Care

4 Steps For Simple Yet Effective Goal Setting

Setting goals is important for helping you stay focused, determined and on track for success. But do you get stuck on actually turning those big dreams into realistic goals on paper? These four steps are simple yet effective ways to help you turn a brain full of scattered ideas into achievable goals.GET CLEAR ON YOUR VISION Before you start writing anything down you need to start getting clear on your vision. No wishy-washy goals around here - envision your goal in as much detail as possible. Get super specific about exactly what this goal is and wh[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

7 Benefits Of A Gratitude Practice And How To Start One

The benefits of a gratitude practice have been seen in the emotional, physical, social and mental improvements of those who choose to practice gratitude daily. Gratitude is one of the positive psychology tools that everyone is able to access all on their own and through consistent, intentional use, you can use a gratitude practice to physically rewire the neural connections in your brain.What does that mean? It means that by practicing gratitude daily you can change the way in which your brain notices and interprets things - reducing stress, negativi[...]

Self-Care, Tips, Planning and Packing, Travel

How To Practice Self-Care While Traveling

Maintaining a self-care practice while traveling is essential to prevent travel burnout and ensure you have the best experience abroad!

Goal-Getters, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Intention Setting 101: Creating Goals With Meaning

What does it mean to set an intention? A guide sharing how to create powerful, true to you intentions with meaning and purpose.

Intention setting is a powerful tool that allows us to create goals with meaning. Everyone is talking about it and sharing their inspirational spaces in which they write their intentions but what even is it? What is an intention and how do we use it? Intention setting is more than just writing your average to-do list full of boxes to check. Writing intentions should be approached as a guide for how we want to be living our lives, how we want to be responding to situations, how we want to act as our best selves. An intention is, at it's simplest, a goal with me[...]

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

How To Create Your Perfect Wellness Routine

Creating a wellness routine was something that evolved subconsciously for me, over time. I didn't sit down and think to myself, "OK, today is the day I start a wellness routine." Mostly what happened was that I would continue to be surprised by how much better something made me feel - whether mentally + emotionally or physically. As time went on, I started to incorporate all of those little things into my daily (or weekly - we aren't all perfect) life and since then, it's been a journey to figure out how to maintain my wellness routine even in the midst of consta[...]