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Living My Best Life: Discover the Ultimate Guide
Living My Best Life 101 I am living my best life, even in 2021! This site exists in order to vulnerably share pieces of my journey that may motivate and will equip people with strategies to live their best life too, right now! No, not when the pandemic is over, not when you retire, not when you are debt free or lose the extra pounds. I’m talking about today, finding the grace and joy in your next waking hours. Living my best life takes thought, reflection, gratefulness, a growth mindset and a constant effort towards a positive attitude. Without effort towards creating healthy habits, we can easily get into routines…
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Journey to Self Love in the Kitchen
Self Love Goal: Show Yourself Love With How You Eat. How is your relationship with food going? What you choose to put on your plate says a lot about how much you love yourself. Sure eating is a form of survival but it is also a form of self love. On your cyclical journey to self love remember that food is at its core, medicinal or poisonous. Our relationship with food can be a beautiful thing. Food nourishes not only our bodies but also our souls (ie comfort food/soul food/ grandma’s cooking). That is why I choose to follow a non restrictive diet. I’m not turning down a traditional plate…
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Welcome to Fitness and Wellness Motivation for Goals
I am so excited to kick off this new section. Watch the video to learn more.
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Back Pain Recovery: My Successful Journey
The Goal: To recover from life debilitating back pain so that I could enjoy pain free movement. The Work: Confronting the Pain If you read the intro to this category, then you know I have back issues. The doctor had me on oxycodone and muscle relaxers because I literally could not walk without excruciating pain. I began physical therapy that focused on strengthening my core and stretching my hip flexors. As I was finishing my physical thereapy, I got off the meds. I did not want to be dependent on them. It was time to get to the root of the problem. So I began seeing a chiropractor 3 times…
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How to Successfully Execute Your Bucket List in 2021
Go for what you desire in 2021! What is the worst that can happen, it doesn’t work out? SO WHAT. This life is yours to live. So as the pandemic restricts us in some ways, it does not have to dismiss your bucket list. Perhaps it will delay their execution a bit. However, it is also affording us the time to really reflect on and create a solid path towards what is actually important to experience. “Failures” are Building Blocks and Blessings With that in mind, it is the perfect time to reflect upon and list your desires. Without crystal clearly knowing what you want, how in the world can…
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How to be a Calm Person on a Stressful Day
With a tightening of my chest, I am sitting outside of emergency at Park Ridge Hospital. At a time when all I want to do is hold my mother’s hand Covid has me locked out. I take turns sitting in the bottom numbing chair outside of the emergency room door and sitting in my car with my technology. This is Devastating but I Still Want to be a Calm Person So I’ve taken to sharing this incredibly scary and hard day with all of you. If for nothing else, to make sure that I’m not coming across as unrealistically painting a picture about everything being joyful and great all of…
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Guided Visualization Meditation: Create Your Life
From Guided Visualization Meditation to Vision Board to Success This guided visualization meditation will help you brainstorm goals for yourself. After doing this meditation, be sure to visit the “How to Create a Vision Board” article. Then use the information in “Monthly Goal Setting to Help You Live Your Best Life” in order to achieve success!
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How to Create a Vision Board
First You Must Understand Visualization The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. -Emily Dickinson I have taught students from K-8th grade how to visualize in order to help their reading comprehension. It is not difficult for children to do because they are not far removed from using their colorful imaginations during play. Adults on the other hand have to really settle down and practice this strategy. Learning how to create a vision board definitely helps. More importantly, it can help you actually manifest your dreams into reality. No, I am not talking about wishful thinking. Without the work visualization will stay just a dream for your future. However,…
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Monthly Goal Setting to Help You Live Your Best Life
Are your goals important enough to you to put a plan into action for accomplishing them? Then you are in the right place. After this article, you will be fully equipped to set and crush your monthly goal! “You HaveNothing to Fear Except Fear Itself.” Roosevelt said that back in 1933 and although he is no personal hero of mine (I prefer to praise Eleanor for her Human Rights work), these words have stuck with me since my youth. They ring true. Do not let fear decide your future. This is your life to create! So when setting goals what is the worst thing that can happen? You don’t reach…
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Silence: A Black Lives Matter Poem
Paper Version of “Silence: A Black Lives Matter Poem” by Rosalie Ortiz I haven’t published in weeks. So much to process I needed a break, Lying in bed with social heartbreak. Yet another Black Death, murderers with No Consequence. Hence, I’ve been marching since Trayvon. Thinking of those who marched before yet the injustice Goes on and on. On my Breath Bounce the words, No Justice No Peace. It’s salty smell seeps back into my mixed race blood, boiling over Like a weeping fog of pain, entwining my muscles, joints, organs… Stifling my throat. Feeling like I could choke. Unable to put into words what I feel. In mourning I…