self-care

5 Reasons To Add “Solo Vacation” To Your Bucket List. Now.

5 Reasons To Add “Solo Vacation” To Your Bucket List. Now.

Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot of racket about solo vacations and traveling alone. I used to think this was a crazy idea. Yea….no. A trip alone sounded beyond boring….actually downright anxiety-provoking in some aspects. What the heck would I do by myself on a vacation? Not interested. But also me…. FOMO (fear of missing…

I’m An Effing Person and I Matter! Moms Need Self-Care.

I’m An Effing Person and I Matter! Moms Need Self-Care.

On an airplane, who is told to put on their oxygen mask first? The adult! Why? Because, if you pass out from lack of oxygen then both of you are screwed! Your child is depending on you to take care of yourself first. So that leads me to my point….I’m an effing person and I…

Learn When To Say No… “I Cain’t and I Ain’t!”
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Learn When To Say No… “I Cain’t and I Ain’t!”

No Means NO! A hard ass lesson I’ve learned since becoming a mom is that I cannot yet operate at the level I did before I was a mom. Don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that I will never operate at the highest of the high levels from my previous life- I AIN’T…

Working Mom Or Stay-At-Home Mom: A 2016 Snapshot Of Our Habits
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Working Mom Or Stay-At-Home Mom: A 2016 Snapshot Of Our Habits

Guess what? Both stay-at-home moms and moms who work outside the home use the hell out of their digital devices and spend a lot of time on social media and watching streamed television shows and movies.

That’s according to Nielsen, a company that keeps track of such things. The latest Nielsen report on device usage makes a great effort to separate what it calls “working moms” from stay-at-home moms, but you and I both know that moms who stay at home with their children are also work

Log Off, Shutdown, Reboot. Steps for Self-Care
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Log Off, Shutdown, Reboot. Steps for Self-Care

Has your groove ever been hacked and you feel the desire to go on strike from everything? Like, just kick your feet up and log out of life? CTRL-ALT-DLT…complete mom shutdown. Has motherhood ever been so emotionally taxing and physically draining that you feel the need to shove everything off your plate? I’m talking about, flipping…

I Need a Do-Over! Tools for Coping With a Bad Day
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I Need a Do-Over! Tools for Coping With a Bad Day

Having a bad day? Some bad days start as early as stubbing your toe upon getting out of bed in the morning, and continue with a domino effect of little things. Yet other days may only take one event to bring you to the realization that you are in need of a do-over. What might…

Balancing Motherhood and Self-Care
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Balancing Motherhood and Self-Care

Did you know that mommy ducks build their nests with feathers they pluck from their chests? Neither did I, but it makes sense. A mother duck is the same as every other kind of mom out there: she endures the often painful sting of sacrifice so that she might create a safe place for her children. It…