What Is Conscious Living?
As these two words become more mainstream, I get asked this all the time – What is Conscious Living? A simple question with a very powerful answer, one that I love giving because most people don’t yet understand what it is to live consciously. What is Conscious Living? Conscious living is pretty straightforward. It is simply waking up and taking control of your life. When you begin living consciously you start thinking about your...
Conscious Co Parenting
Let’s face it, no divorce is easy. And picking up the pieces after can be quite the challenge. Especially when there are children involved. No matter what we do, think or feel, our children are a permanent link to our ex-spouse, making both parents equally important to them. Given that our children are the most important things to us in our lives, we don’t want to cause them any further unnecessary pain, right? Think about yourself....
Easy Ideas To Start New Conscious Holiday Traditions For Every Single Parent
There are so many different circumstances that could have landed you where you are, but whatever yours may be, the fact is that we now have single parent households and are facing the holidays. This may bring on a bit of the holiday blues, but it doesn’t have to! This will be my 4th season as a single parent and this year I am looking forward to doing all of the fun new conscious holiday traditions I started a couple of years ago....
10 Tips To Ease Your Holiday Blues
The Holidays are filled with festivities, holiday cheer, jolly music, decadent foods and everyone is supposed to be happy and thankful, right? No pressure at all… just be happy, right? Wrong!! The Holiday Blues are a lot more common than you may realize. In fact, it is suggested that more than 64% of us feel stress, anxiety, depression or some form of sadness during the Holiday season at one point. I know I do. And this year will be...
11 Immune Boosting Behaviors That Will Keep You Healthy During The Covid Holidays
It is always important to look for the positives in life… One silver lining in this current pandemic situation is that with fewer social engagements on the calendar, keeping our immune systems strong will be that much easier this holiday season. Beginning with taking a commonsense approach to covid, quarantining ourselves and taking care of our mental health during the covid quarantine, we also need to be mindful of our bodies and...
A Very Covid Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! I wanted to take this time to share a poem with you that I have written, to help my children understand that hope is alive, that good things will come, that through understanding there will be awareness. We hope you have a wonderful day today, and I hope this sparks a little thought and lends a little hope to you. Thanksgiving 2020 is sure to be a most unusual day, As many families give thanks in a new and...
5 Tips To Keep A Conscious Mindset During The Covid Holidays
The holidays are indeed upon us and as with everything in 2020, I’m sure they will prove to be most unusual for sure. With Thanksgiving just days away, many people’s plans are still up in the air, confused as to how to create a special day for our families in this strange new normal of Covid Quarantine. Maintaining a conscious mindset can be hard, but it is entirely possible! The memes have been entertaining, the news has been...
Travel During Quarantine
It’s been a while since I have shared a travel post. Covid has changed the face of everything, being quarantined has definitely impacted our travel habits, wants and needs, among other things. Many are frightened of travel during quarantine. The reality is, Covid is here to stay. It is not going away and even if they come out with a vaccine, it will be a decade at least before we know it’s true effect. Life has to change. Humans need...
The Truth About Trauma
Trauma is another one of those words that sparks a lot of misconception. Often when we hear the word trauma we think immediately of someone being beaten or abused in some devastating way or some extreme, highly stressful circumstance. Which stems from trauma being defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Turning on the news now, and even just checking out your social media, we see all kinds of violent tragedies...
Depression Vs. Sadness
What You Need To Know Each and every one of us will experience sadness at some point this year. In the USA, around 18 million of us will also experience depression this year. From the outside, sadness and depression can look very similar. Just as the cold and the flu look similar on the outside, right? But they are not! Not at all… in fact, if sadness were to feel like getting a cold, then depression is to feel like getting Covid-19...