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I Spent A Weekend at a Getaway Cabin & Here's How It Went

I Spent A Weekend at a Getaway Cabin & Here’s How It Went

Hey you! It’s been a minute! How are you? I’ve missed this community so much. I have a few posts saved in my drafts that I intended to publish in 2020 but just could. not. complete. The truth is, my mind was everywhere BUT blogging in 2020. I think I spent the year so embedded in my job, writing online content, that the last thing that I wanted to do with the remainder of my time was write. I…

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#getaway #getaway cabins #getaway house

Learning to Choose to Nurture Over My Nature

Recently, I experienced an exchange with my manager that kind of spoke to me. I needed her insight on how I should respond to a certain situation. I knew in my mind that I could attempt to resolve the situation on my own but I wanted to take an extra step by getting her input first. My manager always encourages me to ask questions and elicit her input anytime so this was one of the few times I…

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5 Steps to Getting Back on Track When You've Lost Your Stride

5 Steps to Getting Back on Track When You’ve Lost Your Stride

“There’s no failure except in no longer trying”

If you started this year thinking that you were going to crush a few goals, started off strong, and abandoned them slowly but surely- this post is for you.

2020 isn’t over yet! Here are a few tips on how to get back on the right track when you’ve lost your stride. (more…)

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Pros and Cons of Working from Home as a Writer

For those of you who don’t know, I work as a technical writer for a pretty large tech company. Because this company has a campus that is so far from where I live, I get to work from home throughout the week.

There are times where I might come into the office for a face-to-face meet but for the most part, I enjoy the luxury of cracking my laptop open and clocking hours without ever having to leave…

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My Experience in Therapy

I am going to try to be as transparent as possible in this post, however, I am not at a place where I can be very explicit. I hope I can be as helpful as possible to those of you contemplating therapy and for those of you who just want to know what it’s like, keep on reading!

Reaching the point where I would book my first therapy session was extremely difficult. Therapy in itself isn’t really a…

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What My Dog Taught Me About the Importance of Space

Ahh, Charlie; a real life sweet-and-sour (among many other things) in dog form. In this post, I explain what his bipolar-self taught me about the importance of space.

He was the most adorable thing I ever saw in my life. His hair was the perfect mixture of white and brown strands. His nose was so cute, short, and round. His eyes were big and dark brown. He had the cutest little overbite.

He was given to me for my 8th birthday. When it came time for me to name him, I looked at the adorable brown and white Shih Tzu puppy and pondered. I thought of his physical…

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No Posts in 2018! What Happened?

I started 2018 with high hopes and a bunch of goals for the blog. Little did I know that in the year ahead of me, I would meet challenges that would cause me to sink into introspection rather than explode with creative expression, as I preferred.

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You Never Know

I forgot how easy it’s supposed to be to write about yourself. I mean, it should be the easiest thing in the world right? They say that people love to talk about themselves, so it shouldn’t be too different in writing, right?

Well not for me. (more…)

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Mid-Year Goal Review

I wasn’t originally going to make a mid-year goal review post because quite honestly, I was scared. Not knowing what life would throw my way in 2018, I shied away from asserting that what I set out to accomplish in 2018 would actually come to fruition. As God would allow it however, here I am writing this post!

I wanted to revisit my goals and intentions post and sort of go through the list,…

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#goal setting #goals #monthly goals #new years goals

Makeup Products to Keep in Your Purse This Summer

Whether you are traveling cross country or simply going about your daily commute, it’s always a good idea to have a few makeup products on hand. You never know when you might need to touch-up on while out and about. Preparation is key and it is unfailingly better to be safe than sorry.

Now that we are approaching summer, I thought it’d be the perfect time to talk about updating the ordinary…

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#makeup #Summer #Travel

Love Without Reciprocity

My Monday morning rant: Love Without Reciprocity. Not sure if this will be an every monday thing, but I hope this post can encourage or inspire you in some way. Feel free to comment your thoughts!

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver

Everyone has a different interpretation of what it means to “adult” during the precious twenties. For me, it hasn’t meant bills and car…

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#compassion #god&039;s love #love

A Time for Everything

I had to revisit the “About Me” page on my blog recently. Out of all of the pages on my blog, out of all of the posts, that is the one page I have struggled with the most. I actually have edited it about 5 times over the course of the (almost) 3 years I’ve had this blog. The truth is, I feel convicted about that page because I feel that I should know its words by heart, but after all of its…

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Motivational Playlists Perfect for Mundane Days

I believe music has a way of influencing people so markedly, that our mood tends to mirror the tone of what we listen to the most. Everything from the tempo, to the notes, to the way the singer is belting out the words translates a certain energy and that energy is capable of having an irresistable impact on us. On me especially.

If I feel that the day is slow and I’m struggling to stay awake,…

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#motivation #motivational #Motivational Mundays #Music #playlist

Enjoying the Wait

Patience is a hard practice. We don’t really have to wait for much on a day-to-day basis anymore, discounting traffic and long lines. If we have a collegiate worthy question, all we have to do is search google and then bam. Collegiate worthy answer. Am I complaining? No, not at all. If anything, I’m the first one to ask for fast responses. Waiting is not necessarily a strong suit of mine, but it…

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#enjoying #the wait #waiting

15 Reasons to Workout Today

Choosing to get up and drench yourself in sweat is not an easy decision. Excuses tend to abound when a workout seems too draining to endure. “Y’know I’m just not feeling it today” or “I just don’t know if I have the time” tend to be my top two. I’m starting to realize though that lack of workout motivation doesn’t always stem from a loss of focus or even a preference to laziness. It can stem from…

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#fitness #reasons #reasons to #workout

Motivational Social Media Accounts Perfect for Mundane Days

The world of social media has an undeniably large impact on our world today. It has changed the way that we communicate and keep up with one another in both beneficial and not-so-beneficial ways. When we scroll through our social media feeds, we are consuming potential future thoughts. It is for this reason that it is really important to carefully govern how we use it. (more…)

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#inspiration #Motivational Mundays #productivity

Kush Mascara by Milk Makeup Review

*DISCLAIMER: I received this product complimentary via Influenster

It is one of the most talked about beauty products on the market right now. Kush Mascara is raising eyebrows due to its usage of a very interesting ingredient: Weed. I have to applaud the marketing team behind Kush Mascara for their brilliant usage of typical references to weed in the context of a mascara (i.e. “One hit for high…

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#influenster #kush mascara #kush mascara review #milk makeup #review #voxbox

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