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The Importance of Grounding and Why Hygge Helps
What the heck is grounding anyway? Today’s topic covers the importance of grounding and what it is specifically. Further down you will find common symptoms when grounding is needed, ways to ground, and I will explain why Hygge helps. Although, if you are a Hygge Lifestyle lover you will see the connection quickly. We live in a world where shoes cover the feet, busy and hustle are encouraged, and pills cure the disconnected feelings and inflammation within the body. Though, it never used to be that way. I remember running in the grass with bare feet. There are memories of neighbors dropping by and life slowing down to connect with…
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Love Requires Choice
You may have heard people say “love is a feeling”, or “love is a choice”, and found those statements didn’t quite resonate somehow. I am with you on that, 100%! Energetically love is not just a feeling, and while it isn’t a choice, love requires choice. This article is going to discuss love from a unique perspective and show you how love requires choice. Wait though…before I go too far, this article is about all forms of love within relationships: with another person, with life, with the Divine, and with yourself. After all, love is one of the foundational laws of our life here on earth, so it is imperative…
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How Life Goals Impacted my Family
For many, goal setting is being intentional towards a career aspiration, a financial target, or a health goal. For me, life goals were so much more. I was desperate to create a life I love, and one that I could find happiness every day. In short, this journey started because for me, life sucked and it was headed down a dark lonely path if something didn’t change. This is part of my story and how life goals impacted my family. When I was a kid, I didn’t grow up pretending to be a mom. My only doll wasn’t a baby, it was a bride that I envisioned going to work…
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What To Do When There is Too Much To Do
There is a common theme among women that are trying to do it all; trying to have it all. They have a long to-do list that tends to be never-ending and never fulfilling. I’ve discovered what to do when there is too much to do, and I’ve streamlined it so well that I’ve ditched the long to-do lists altogether. You might be thinking it’s impossible but I live my days and weeks exactly this way and it works over and over again. This process is one of the steps I’ve used to simplified my life and with practice you can do it too. As busy moms, we tend to have…
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Comparison Kills Relationships | What to do Instead
News flash: comparison kills relationships. The truth is many of us, including me, have a tendency to look over at other people and wish we had what they had. We look at their social media and want perfection too. But is it perfect? It might be for them, but what works for them might not work for you. I’m going to get really clear about the dangers of comparing your relationship to others, and then we can look at what to do instead. Ready? My husband and I have been married for 27 years this month. There have been good times, great times, and times I felt like it was…
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Bridging the Relationship Gap with Your Teen
Are you struggling with your relationship with your teen? You try and try but nothing seems to work? Does it feel like you are banging your head against the wall when you try and talk with them? There are many parents in this exact situation. You aren’t alone. If you are wondering how to start bridging the relationship gap with your teen, you are in the right place. I’m going to explain how to get started and lead you to some valuable resources you can use to keep it going. Parenting a teenager is completely different than raising a young child. We found this to be extremely true as we…
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How Hygge Helped Us Transition Into Our New Normal
Life is flipped upside down for many of us around the world right now and it perfectly natural to feel all the emotional feelings you are feeling. We are all on our own journey to try and figure out our new normal; what it looks like and how we fit into it. For our home, the transition wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be, and when I looked at why one of the reasons pointed to our Hygge lifestyle. This is how Hygge helped us transition into our new normal. You may be feeling overwhelmed with everything you’re trying to balance right now. The work, the family needs,…
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A Mom’s Wish for all Teen Girls | Parenting Teens
As a mom of a teen girl, I have a wish. My wish for all teen girls is for the cycle of judgment between females stop. I wish the constant need to feel better than others could be replaced by wanting to empower one another and lift each other up. Why do women feel threatened by each other? Why is there a need to judge another by the school they go to? Or the clothes they wear? Or any other ridiculous characteristic? A Mom’s Wish for all Teen Girls My daughter was excited to go to an event today. It was going to include friends and other girls that she…
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Raising Kids to Have a Voice of Their Own
Times have changed since my youth. Some for the better and others not so much. I woke up recently stuck with the phrase, “children should be seen and not heard”, running through my head. I heard this a few times growing up. We chose a different route when raising our kids. We are raising kids to have a voice of their own while still being respectful. The parenting style that I grew up with, was not the parenting style that I intentionally chose to follow. While I love my parents deeply, I also know the thoughts I struggled with growing up. Ones that I never expressed openly, but ones that…
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5 Ways Hygge Uses Intentional Living
After researching creating an Intentional life and what is Hygge life, I’ve discovered why the Danes are so great at balancing personal and professional life. They use intentional living to enhance their Hygge lifestyle. Here are 5 ways Hygge uses Intentional living. How is this helpful? Well if you are struggling with gaining a semblance of balance in your life between striving to meet your career goals, Hygge might be something to intentionally add to your life. Do you need to go all drastic and be all Hygge, all the time? No. I personally didn’t know about Hygge when I started my simple life journey, but have since discovered that…
