Pin itYay! I’ve made it to the third week in the Makeup~Free Mondays Challenge. If you don’t know about the challenge, please check out The Beauty Bean. Today was our Christmas Party at work and I was totally and completely makeup~free and it didn’t bother me a bit, nor did it detract from my festive [...]
Pin it Monday Mingle is hosted by Jennifer at Eighty MPH Mom. Participation is easy: simply record yourself answering the questions, post it on your blog and then hit the link. This week’s questions: Where is your favorite romantic place to to with your spouse/partner? Freestyle! Talk about whatever. Makeup Free Mondays is hosted by [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Permission to Live Obligation Free Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give ourselves permission to live obligation free and not take on more responsibility than we can handle. I didn’t do so well with this challenge but it’s not because I didn’t want to, it’s because I had a windfall of [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Give Up Comparisons Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give comparisons and spend the week drawing inspiration from those I view as successful and acknowledging my own successes and learning from my failures. I honestly didn’t do as poorly as I thought I would with this challenge. There were a few [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Give Up the Gossip Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give up gossip and spend the week speaking love, truth and respect into the lives of the people we encounter. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this assignment. For the most part I was able to avoid celebrity gossip [...]
Pin itYesterday about 6000 of my closest friends and I started the Inner Mean Girl 40~Day Cleanse. The Inner Mean Girl Cleanse is a self~improvement workshop for women that is taught by Amy Ahlers and Christine Arylo and hosted by Stacy of The Mom Renewal Project. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage women [...]
Pin it The Inner Mean Girl Reform School is part of a 40~day program for women where we learn to quiet our inner critic and give voice to our inner champion. For 6 weeks, I will be joining women from all over the world in ridding myself of 6 toxic habits including comparison, judgement, gossip [...]
Pin itI’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been so bleh for the last few days and it just occurred to me that it was a year ago this week that I walked away from everything that meant something to me. Well, maybe not everything, but at least everything when it came to my [...]
Pin itDo you remember what you were like at 13? I was a chunky, braces~wearing, nerd who spent most of my time holed up in a corner with a book. I was socially awkward and did my best to avoid people. Why? Because I lacked self~confidence. Looking back, I was just like every other 13~year~old [...]
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