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Embrace Your You-ness!
(inspirational collages!) I love the outliers. The beatnicks. The people who are unapologetically themselves. People are tortured by trying to fit in. It is a whole lot of energy wasted that can much better be channeled into cultivating your personal genius. There are...
Why Real Wellness Is All About Your Whole Life, Not Just Parts Of It!
Wellness isn't a green smoothie or a yoga practice. Wellness is holistic. It took me years to learn this for myself, and I wish I "got" it sooner! You may have a stunning career and no social life. Romance may be booming for you, but you can't quite pay your bills....
6 Ways To Create A Living Room Worth Showcasing!
(domino) Great design usually requires less rather than more. Amazing interiors are often more a fuction of care for detail rather than splashy accessories. If you have always dreamed about living in a space worth featuring in a magazine, these tips can definitely get...
Four Quick Ways To Feel More Empowering Balance In Your Life!
(via) When you are racing through days, perhaps already feeling behind, the idea of focus and engaging with the energy of the moment flies out the window. When you are under stress, in grief, or just having a difficult time of it, that peaceful core is not easy to...
Open Up & Feel Your Life!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It is so easy to hide out, retreat and pretty much close down to the world... but when you open up, instead, no matter how much or many things have gone wrong in the past, you let help come. You let life prove that there is immense amounts of...
Eternal Youth In Astonishingly Beautiful Paintings!
Zhongwen Yu is my art pick of this hot Spring day. His photorealistic painting still has a touch of the brush stroke and a dose of the wonderment of youth shining through each canvas eternally! When transparency is articulated so that bubbles have full, dewey volume,...
Fast Feng Shui To Fill Your Days With Joy!
(via) Lots of us tend to prioritize in unique ways. We do what is the "has to get dones" and put off things like FUN or ART for later. Maybe they will get sprinkled on top of a very busy week from time to time when we start to feel robotic. That's no way to live....
20 Life Lessons From My Mom Who Triumphed Over Tons… And Always Smiled!
If I could turn back a clock I wish I celebrated my gorgeous mother more for her triumphs and all of the time- over a massive phobia that kept her for years in her house as a young adult, for her abilty to raise my sister and I on her own after learning my dad had two...
You Can Do Anything!
(via) My mom used to tell me this, almost verbatim, when I was not sure what to do with my time and my life. I wish she was here to see it all in action, but maybe she is?! All those hurdles to jump just make you stronger. And help you relate more to the world at...