4 Reasons You Should Hire a Housecleaner Today
You Are More Than Any Body Part
Rejecting Diet Culture and Loving Your Whole Self My friend, Jamila Hume, is on a mission to guide and empower women to create balance and harmony in their lives—to live from a place of radiance. She knows from experience how life’s daily challenges and stressors can alter a person’s well-being. That’s why she’s all about […]
7 Things I Refuse to Be Judged For
How to Proudly Wear The Labels Others Give You We live in a society of labels. There’s always someone trying to slap a descriptor on us … telling us how we’re supposed to act, feel, talk, dress, look. How we’re supposed to BE. We get these messages from family, friends, our communities, the culture. And we’re […]
Stop Asking for Permission
Embrace Being the Boss of Your Own Life Four years ago, I told my husband, Scott, that I wanted to launch my own education consultant business at the beginning of the new year. His response? “You’d give up a stable curriculum director’s job and amazing insurance to start you own business? That feels too risky.” […]
My New Life as an Empty-Nester
Learning to Appreciate All the ‘Last Times’ If you’ve been following me on social media at all this year, you’ve probably seen me having little meltdowns about my son, Spencer, leaving for college this fall. I’ve spent the last few months trying to soak up every single moment with him (and even considered cancelling a […]
The 2 Reactions to Your Transformations
How to Let the ‘Haters’ Fuel Your Fire to Succeed As I read my friend Susan Hyatt’s new book, Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You, I felt myself nodding in agreement at nearly every page. But there was one […]
High-Maintenance—and Proud Of It!
Why Women Should Embrace the Label The hubs and I recently took a blissful seven-day vacation to Cancun (sans kiddos … a once-a-year necessity!). It was a full week of poolside cocktails, time with my guy, and meeting new people. Among the new people we met was a couple at the pool. I was chatting […]
Overcoming ‘Mom Guilt’ & Pursuing Your Passion
Existing inside of a mom body can be exhausting sometimes. The guilt alone is overwhelming—hell, it’s practically part of our cellular makeup! Guilt is a living, breathing, constant companion that saps our energy and makes us feel so much unnecessary shame.
Accepting the Big, Beautiful Mess of Life
One of the most empowering moments in your life is when you find the willingness to let go of what you thought should be and embrace what is.
It’s not easy and it takes time, but when you can finally do it, it’s so damn freeing.
Caring for the ‘Couple You’
This may surprise some of you, but sometimes the Happiness Coach has to coach herself. It happened recently, and it happened because I started having anxiety, guilt, and stress about a beach vacation. (Yes, a vacation … I promise this will make sense!)