(contributed post) If you’ve been feeling down in the dumps lately, there is a decent chance you will benefit from some of the following advice. Caring for your emotional health is critical and can hugely impact your physical health if you don’t. Sometimes you have to think outside of the box to turn things around, […]
Category: Life Lessons
6 Easy Tips to Stay On Top of Your Well Being
(contributed post) Self-care has become a hot topic in the wellness industry and popular media lately – the idea that little acts of tuning into ourselves, listening to our instincts, and taking small steps to address potential problems or complications can have a big impact in our lives. And it’s true that small steps over […]
Why You Should Get Organized and Reduce Your Stress Level
A couple years ago, I picked organization as my word of the year, and I did get more organized. But I still have a long way to go! It is so true that when you are organized you have less stress–it doesn’t mean no stress, but there is less. So I really liked this contributed […]
Maybe We Should React With Empathy: The Situation at the U.S. Border
I have read so many incredibly disturbing stories, tweets, and Facebook posts about the situation of illegal immigrants’ children being separated from their parents at the U.S./Mexico border that I can’t stay quiet any longer. Maybe I’m encouraged by Brene Brown’s book, Braving the Wilderness, and I will try to state my opinion clearly and […]
How to Survive the Silent Treatment by the Narcissist
If you know a narcissist as a friend, parent, family member, co-worker, or partner, then you’ve experienced “the silent treatment.” This is on my mind today because I’ve been working on a novel with a narcissistic character, and he just gave the main character the silent treatment. I also recently saw a post on a […]
What Happens When You Surround Yourself In Positivity
I really like this post below, which came to me as a contributed post. What I like about it is that they aren’t really telling you HOW to be positive, but they are showing you that if you can manage to have a positive attitude, here are the benefits. And I agree with everyone of […]
Finding My True Self: A Work in Progress
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. ~Richard Bach I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the subjects of shame, belonging and authenticity. This is not light, beach reading, obviously, and sometimes, it takes me to places that I’ve been avoiding, well, my entire life. But I also know […]
Love and Loss: Some Healthy Things To Consider When Life Goes Wrong
(contributed post) You have always considered yourself to be a positive and outgoing person with high prospects for your life. There aren’t many things that could hold you back from being the person you have always wanted to be. You practice self love religiously, and you have a caring family who is always there for […]
4 Ways to Deal With Mental Health Issues
(contributed post) It’s simple, taking care of your mental health makes your life so much easier and more enjoyable, and who wouldn’t want that for themselves or the people that they love? To that end, it is vital that you prioritize any mental health issues and deal with them in appropriate ways. Know when something […]
Motherhood: How Can We Be a Good Parent and Yet Be Fulfilled as a Woman?
Today I welcome Wendy Brown-Baez, author of Catch a Dream, who is on a blog tour with WOW! Women On Writing! She has written this wonderful guest post below on motherhood and also being an adult with feelings, desires, and passions. What she says below is what I feel like I struggle with constantly and somewhat the same […]
