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I love spending time at home. My home is my sanctuary, my happy place. I want you to have it too so in these posts you will find suggestions about making it so (to quote the great Captain Picard :))
Ah, December. The month that arrives wrapped like a gift—sometimes beautifully, sometimes with suspiciously lumpy corners, and always with just a hint of chaos. Doing a bit of December self-care — and keeping in mind a few gentle holiday boundaries — makes the season a gift, not a to-do list. Whether you’re a holiday super-fan …
Read moreI thought autumn would be a perfect season for this theme, because we naturally want to slow down in autumn, and we feel the need to slow down. We actually talked about this in the recent post about autumn. Slow living, the gentle art of doing less, reminds us that the richest moments often happen …
Read moreLast time we talked about self-acceptance and how this is something that needs constant work. Well, it’s the same when it comes to happiness. The daily happiness habits we build in small moments are what carry us. We often think we’ll be happy when we achieve a goat we set, like finding love, build a …
Read moreI’m sure many of you smiled when you saw the title, because you know exactly what I’m talking about. Bob Ross. And Bob Ross put so many smiles on so many faces — one look at a painting like Sunset Aglow and you feel it. Even though he’s not with us anymore, his joyful legacy …
Read moreI love this season. I love everything about it. The fiery red and the calming yellow in trees, the leaves covering sidewalks, the wind that carries them around, even the rain, and the serenity it brings. For me, autumn is the it season for self-care and coziness. It won’t be long before we see the …
Read moreOh yes, summer has finally arrived. 🙂 Whether you’ve been waiting for it the whole year long or are just realizing it’s that time of year, a summer mindset is a good thing — and so is a little summer self-care, even a slow digital detox under a tree.Why?There is something about the summer that …
Read moreDo you ever hear your parents or grandparents nostalgically talk of the simpler times? Why was it simpler? Because it was slower. probably the most important thing for us to learn is that slowing down is not laziness.This fast-paced mode we live by, created a hectic world to live in.We were taught to multitask to …
Read moreThanks for coming back for Part II 🙂For those of you jumping in just now, Part I of Considering Yoga was about my positive experience and change for the better that came with practicing yoga. So let’s try to simply explain different types of yoga. Now we’re going to focus more on some basic yoga …
Read moreLast time we talked about physical activity, I said that yoga was “it” for me — how (even a beginner) yoga changed my self perspective, so now I want to elaborate on that. Not only what yoga did (and does) for me, but also what it does in general. We’ll make this a two-part post, …
Read moreToday’s lifestyle is mostly about sitting. We sit at our desks, our computers, our offices, our classrooms, we sit a lot. And we know that sitting is bad for us. Some companies give you a standing desk option, and while standing is better than sitting, nothing beats movement.We are built to move — and even …
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