Take A Summer Vacation

Are you giving yourself permission to have a little downtime this summer? Maybe, you’re off on a vacation overseas, exploring far away lands and getting lost in distant places. Perhaps, a lazy beach trip is more your style, walking on the beach and putting your feet in the sand. You might even decide to stay…

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When Your Feelings Get Hurt

My feelings were recently hurt. If I’m being honest, it didn’t bring out the best in me. I’d like to say I calmly and rationally recognized what happened and then maturely let it go. But, I didn’t. Instead, I got upset. While I knew why I was upset, I allowed my feelings of hurt to…

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To My High School Graduate

It’s graduation season. There are pictures all over social media right now with students graduating from college and Kindergarten and everywhere in-between. It’s an exciting time, and I love seeing all the smiling and happy faces in pictures being shared by proud friends and family members. Many comments such as “What a beautiful picture” or…

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5 Ways to Have a Good Day

Have you ever heard the saying, “The way you start is the way you finish?” If you haven’t heard this said before, think about it. The saying is true, especially when it comes to having a good day. The way your start your day tends to impact the whole day. If you start your day…

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A One-Sided Friendship

There’s nothing nicer than having wonderful friends who love and support you. People you can count on to be there for you when you need them. At the same time, there are relationships that suck the life out of you and leave you feeling used and exhausted. A one-sided friendship that causes you to feel insecure…

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Healthy Eating Made Easy

Are you a healthy eater? Do you even know how to eat a healthy diet? If you’re like most people, you might feel like you could do a better job in the healthy eating category. Truth be told, I live with people who could tweak their daily eating habits and make small changes that would impact…

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Does Change Scare You?

Change. Changes are an inevitable part of life and can cause us to feel anxious and unsettled. Some changes are planned while others are unexpected. Either way, being hit with something new can be a challenge to deal with. That’s the thing about life, it never stays constant. We have to be flexible. We have…

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Take the Compliment Challenge

Compliments are one of those things that are free to give and feel great to receive. I’ve learned there are two types of people when it comes to dishing out compliments: people who frequently gush over others with kind words and people who don’t. I tend to want to be around those who look for…

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10 Items You Should Take With You To Chemo

Going through chemotherapy can be challenging. Trust me, I speak from experience. Here are 10 items I wish someone had told me to bring when I went for chemotherapy. It would have made the experience easier for me. 10 Items You Should Take With You To Chemo: 1. A good attitude – You don’t want…

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How Cancer Changed Me

A cancer diagnosis changed my life. It’s been four years. Four years since my life changed completely. Four years since I heard those terrifying words, “You have cancer.” At the time, I was 42 years old and in the middle of living my life. There are experiences in life that stay with us. Things we…

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