Blogmas Twenty-Five Days of Christmas: The ULTIMATE Christmas Inspired Self-Care Ideas

From now until Christmas day, I will be posting a list of twenty-five tips and ideas that will help you get through the holiday season. On Christmas day I will have offered you over six hundred ideas that you can enjoy alone or with family and friends.  I don’t think I could have created the

Four Ways To Master Aggressively Editing Your Life (INCLUDES AN EMOTIONAL SELF-CARE WORKSHEET)

I don’t like the cliche’ of making New Year resolutions. I prefer to say setting goals because in my mind for some reason they are more achievable. We are nearing the end of the year so this is the perfect time to start aggressively editing your life and work on improving your emotional self-care. Generally

Seven Quick and Easy Daily Self-Care Tips (INCLUDES FREE PRINTABLE)

I was having a conversation with my mom before I wrote this blog and I asked her if she ever participates in any of my challenges. She said, “I don’t see how you find time for that.” LOL!! I told her self-care doesn’t have to take all day. I think a lot of people think

Secrets to Becoming a Better Listener

One day at Barnes and Noble, I happened to sit by two older women having a conversation about life. I came in the middle of their conversation so I wasn’t exactly sure what they were discussing.  My initial thought was; “will they ever shut up, I want to get some work done before I leave and

Seven Quick and Easy Daily Self Care Tips

A new week equals a new set of daily challenges. By the way, if this isn’t your first time here, thanks for sticking with these challenges for the past five weeks. If this is your first time, WELCOME! follow and share. As per my usual opening, each week I will challenge us to do one

A Popular Phrase We All Use That Holds Us Back

On several occasions in the past, I’ve had friends and family members admire accomplishments that I’ve made which I don’t give myself credit for (e.g. finishing my Masters, going for my PhD, changing careers, etc.).  They were just not a big deal to me.  Reason being; the things that I want to do, I do it.

Seven Quick and Easy Daily Emotional and Physical Self-Care Tips

I can’t believe it’s been a month since I’ve initiated these weekly challenges. I’ve been having a lot of fun doing them and I hope you are too. As per my usual opening, if this is your first time here, each week I will challenge us to do one of the self-care options below for

Three Ways You Might Be Blocking Your Own Growth

Growth! Not in the physical form but the ability to shed parts of ourselves to become who we are meant to be (a metamorphosis if you will). We are all capable of growing in this way. Some of us admire the growth in others by saying; “I wish I could be more like you,” “I’m

Self-Care Sundays: Seven Things You Can Start Doing This Week To Improve Your Physical Self-Care Habits

It’s a new week! which means I have seven new ideas for our weekly self-care challenge (now in its third week). If this is your first time here, each week I will challenge us to do one of the self-care options below for each day of the upcoming week. I encourage you to keep a

How I Made Jamaican Saltfish (Codfish) Frittas

Of course I’ve had these before but I’ve never made them myself. The decision to make them started with an overly riped banana which I was going to use to make banana pancakes but my boyfriend (who’s also Jamaican) suggested frittas. Before I go into more details about the frittas let me address a few