Tag Archives: self care

The Importance of Honoring The Self and Taking Time for Wellness

Here is what I’ve realized lately: Wellness and self care are such important topics to me, not only because of my mental illnesses, but because I never had a good example of them while growing up. Growing up, I was never shown how to truly take time for self, how to truly work on your […]

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The Irony of Mama Guilt and Letting Go of Feeling Guilty for Wanting to Work

I recently have been working on a project, a contribution to a larger project for new mama’s. It’s been awesome and I’ve loved the creativity and releasing of thoughts I’ve gotten from it. My contribution talks about learning to find yourself as a new mama, and feeling less mama guilt. And so as I went […]

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Focusing on Living For Us and Why We Eloped

I want to share an example of how my husband and I recently(as in, during 2013) focused on what we needed in life and employed the idea of Living For Yourself. On October 16, 2010 my boyfriend of 6 and a half years popped the question! Of course, I said yes. The visual inspiration-aholic I […]

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