Hey, hey! Tonight I'm catching the redeye to the east coast! I'm looking forward to time with my family. I haven't been home since the holidays, which is quite awhile for me. Can you tell that I'm excited? This ridiculous photo was taken a few months ago and is too funny not to share. Earlier this week, I continued a tradition that I started years ago of dedicating a day around my birthday just to treating myself to things that I love. It's what I call my "me" day to decompress and take myself on a solo date. I think that for a lot of people, life just seems too hectic to feel like there's time to practice self-love as much as we should - or worse, maybe we don't feel deserving of it. I think it's really important to take time here and there to slow down, appreciate life, ... [Read More]
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Dating Myself This Valentine’s Day Weekend
Hi friends! Well, last weekend marked 2016's holiday of love... and while I love any excuse to celebrate my relationship with my husband, I also like taking time around each Valentine's Day to show myself some love. Self-love is a topic I've written about probably a dozen times, and it's a subject that I like to chat about with you guys because it is so important. You can't have a truly healthy life without having a healthy, positive self-relationship. Sometimes we're all so busy running around handling our business and taking care of everyone else in our life, that we forget that we deserve to be taken care of too. We need to love ourselves first, because a healthy self-relationship forms the backbone of all of the other relationships you have in your life. The concept of ... [Read More]