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This is the third time writing my New Year, New Mantra post.  It’s something I start to look forward to the end of the year.  A lot of people make New Year’s resolutions.  To me I don’t like New Year’s resolutions.  I don’t think you […]

Self care is not selfish.  Repeat that.  Self care is not selfish.  Self care is NECESSARY!  Before I had my baby I didn’t have to prioritize self care.  My life was full of it.  Yoga every day, massages every other week, spa days, traveling whenever […]

The other night my girlfriends and I got together for some much needed drinks and time together.  We were talking about the stress of COVID and how it’s really hard.  For everyone.  We chatted about at home workouts and weight gain.  One of my friends […]

It’s been awhile since I wrote a “life lesson from a yogi” post.  The world we live in has been so crazy.  It is scary and HARD trying to navigate this new “norm” if you will.  It is astounding to think that literally every person […]

For the past few years I have wrote about the new year mantra approach I have been taking.  I am not one for resolutions because I don’t think you need to wait for a date on the calendar to better your life or make changes. […]

Since getting married in Italy we had been dying to go back.  To the point that I actually had a meeting set up with the Italian Consulate to talk about quitting our jobs, selling our house and moving there for a year.  I found out […]

Last year I wrote about going into the New Year with a mantra.  My mantra for 2018 was “embrace change”.  I originally thought about “accept change” but to me that was just being “ok” with something changing versus really embracing it and being MORE THAN […]

When my husband and I thought about having kids we always thought “either way we will be happy”.  If we got pregnant we knew we would love our little baby, but if we didn’t we knew we would continue on with the life as we […]

  It’s funny when you have a vision in your head of how things are “supposed” to go and it turns out the complete opposite.  Or you make a plan for a big event only to have it go completely sideways.  It’s moments like that […]

How many times do you find yourself saying “I wish I looked like I did when ……”, or “I will fit into my “skinny” jeans again”.  I feel like a lot of people make comments about the bodies they once had and how they want […]