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What’s Bugging You for Attention?

As spring gets closer and the weather turns warmer, we’ve had a lot of ladybugs in the house. I mean, a lot. It kind of happens every year, but for some reason this go-round feels extra-early. And extra-abundant. As I made my umpteenth trip to the window to grab and release yet another colorful,spotted, miniature […]

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Stop and Smell the Stillness

We all have felt overwhelmed. Sometimes it’s low-grade, other times it’s intensive. Regardless, we need self-care when it hits. Lucky for us, there is a remedy that works in response to stress and overwhelm. And bonus: it also works as a proactive measure for the same! Meditation. And it’s not necessarily what you think it […]

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Grand Adventures

The final episode in Season 3 of The History Channel’s Alone gave me a huge AHA. For those of you who may not know, it’s a solo survival contest. This season, the last one standing made it 87 days surviving by themselves in the wilderness of Patagonia. 87 days. No support, no partner. On the […]

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To: Me. Love, Me.

This holiday season I’m doing pretty well with keeping my sanity. That said, I still do slide toward cray-cray. But this year I’m doing better at turning the sleigh around before actually arriving at Crazy Town. Wanna know my secret, Santa? Receiving. I have been consciously shifting into receptivity, replenishment, renewal. In the moment, not […]

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Umm…

Meditation intrigues me. I’m a huge fan of it in principle, it’s just that I don’t always practice it regularly. Much like yoga, walking the dog, journaling, and writing — my other daily disciplines that I’d like to aspire to. And I always feel so uplifted after doing any of them, you’d think I’d be […]

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