What does balance look like to you? For me, I am looking to be less of a workaholic in 2022, embrace more white space, say no when I just need to rest, and find room in my day-to-day to take care of me. One way I started finding more room to rest in 2021 was [...]
Category: Mindful Living
hello, 2022!
In preparation for writing this post, I literally had to go back and find my 2021 word of the year, I couldn’t remember it and clearly, I had not written it down in my planner. I feel like my 2021 word of the year began to really reveal its self at the end of the [...]
Mindfulness | A Fall Meditation
As we begin the transition from fun and spontaneous summer to cool and mellow fall I wanted to share with you a meditation for the new season. Each season has it’s own energy, rhythms, colors, and celebrations. In nature fall is the season of pruning and preparation. It happens throughout nature as trees and shrubs [...]
Greenwashing in Fashion
The first question is what is greenwashing & what does it have to do with the fashion industry? According to The Fashion Law; Greenwashing is a term that was coined in the 1980’s by environmentalist Jay Westerveld, who saw the inconsistency in hotels that did not employ concrete recycling programs but encouraged the reuse of [...]
Mindfulness | Summer Social Media Break
Summer Break doesn’t hit home the way it did when I was enrolled in school. It’s basically more of the same, plus the heat and being jealous of everyone’s vacation photos. So, this year for the summer, I tried to take a break from social media or at least spend less of my time making [...]
Mindfulness | Longterm Friendships
June 8th was Best Friends Day or something like that. Honestly, it was the rest of social media that reminded me that it was a special day! The biggest revelation to me post-college was that making friends as an adult is so different. When you are in school and even as a kid you tend [...]
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, as the spouse to someone who suffers from mental health illness, this month is an important one to me. Over the last few years, we've learned how to live with these illnesses and take care of our collective & individual mental health, our shalom is connected and when one [...]
Shine a Light on Women’s Health Month
This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. May is Women's Health Month, and after another endless winter here in Colorado Springs, I am finally getting outside to enjoy the [...]
Earth Month 2021
April was BUSY! Not only does April contain Fashion Revolution week, but it was Earth Month! This year, I celebrated Earth Month by participating in the Eco Life Challenge stretching and practicing my eco life skills for the whole month. Some of the big takeaways from the month for me include composting, gardening our own [...]
Who made YOUR clothes?
This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. Since 2014, a group of global citizens has been raising awareness of clothing factory conditions since the collapse of the Rana Plaza [...]
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