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Dec03

10 Tips To Ease Your Holiday Blues

Posted on Dec 3, 2020

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...

Nov30

11 Immune Boosting Behaviors That Will Keep You Healthy During The Covid Holidays

Posted on Nov 30, 2020

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...

Nov26

A Very Covid Thanksgiving

Posted on Nov 26, 2020

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...

Nov23

5 Tips To Keep A Conscious Mindset During The Covid Holidays

Posted on Nov 23, 2020

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...

Nov19

Travel During Quarantine

Posted on Nov 19, 2020

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...

Nov16

The Truth About Trauma

Posted on Nov 16, 2020

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...

Nov12

Depression Vs. Sadness

Posted on Nov 12, 2020

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...

Nov09

The Thing About Depression

Posted on Nov 9, 2020

This word carries such a stigma within our society – Depression. People want to avoid it and pretend it is not real. And unless you have dealt with it or are close to someone who has, it can be really hard to understand. It is right up there with domestic violence on the list of things people are hesitant to admit and talk about. But we have to keep the conversation going, we have to become aware of the problems plaguing our society....

Nov05

My Daughter’s Bike – A Story Of Projection

Posted on Nov 5, 2020

Everyone is abuzz with Thanksgiving this month! I love reading stories of praise and thanks all over social media and hearing them from friends around town. It is great! I have my own bizarre but true story that just recently happened that is just so good, I have to share it with you!! A story of positivity and projection. A story showing that community can come together and create really good things, randomly, with a little...

Nov02

20 Reasons To Be Thankful In November 2020

Posted on Nov 2, 2020

The holiday season is setting upon us! I love this time of year. And just like everything else in 2020, this holiday season is going to be different – amazing, but different. Covid Quarantine has changed everything. I remember when we first went into lockdown reading a meme that said I think the universe is punishing us and just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we have done. And it is so true. Humans, Americans especially,...