Dear Mama, As a stay at home mom, I know it can be lonely at times, especially if your husband is always at work. My situation is a little different from others. I am alone more than MOST stay at home moms. My husband works full time three days a week (12 hour shifts) at a hospital, and on his off days he works 8 hour shifts at a family run real estate office. My husband never really gets a day off. Every once in a while (perhaps every three weeks) we will be ...
Healthy, Happy Mommy Habits: Yoga At The Park
I invite you to join my girls and I in tension releasing stretches at the the park, this beautiful, sunny afternoon. After we have released our tension through our early afternoon stretches, we will read a book at the park in downtown Orlando as the warm, bright sun kisses our skin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ymhqcEztQ Meditation is one out of many ways to nourish a healthy mind, body, and spirit. You can meditate in many ways. Some like contemplative meditation, others like ...
How To Look AMAZING, Classy, And Modest On A Budget As A Stay At Home Mom
This video explains how to dress classy and look attractive as a stay at home mom and wife all while on a budget. As a stay at home mom, we often need reminding to revamp our style and wardrobe. From time to time women need to look good to feel good and the way we dress tells A LOT about ourselves. Being a stay at home mom more than likely means we are relying on one source of income in the home so we do not have the ability to spend tons of money on new outfits. That is okay! All mothers can ...
Better Than A Back Massage Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
In my home we have banned all things dairy. That means no regular ice cream, no cow’s milk with our cereal, and absolutely no mac and cheese for the littles. Don’t get me wrong, we love cheese. If I could eat it every day I would. But after suffering from terrible hormonal breakouts on my jaw line for a year straight I had to reevaluate my diet. I found that dairy was the main culprit in these constantly painful flare-ups on my skin. I also found that large amounts of caffeine and ...
What Exactly Is Spirituality?
Spirituality is how a person finds and communicates self-meaning and purpose. To nourish your spirit is to find a way to connect to yourself, to others, to nature, to the present moment and to the significant or sacred. There are great deals of people that find solace in one or more deity or God. Many people may call their sacred authority God, Yahweh, Allah, The Universe, Mother Nature, Gaea, the list could go on forever. A great portion of people find being associated with a church, ...
What Is My Favorite Way To Manifest Positive Energy?
Our everyday lives are filled with many twists, turns and surprises that it may seem like we are often times riding on a metaphorical roller coaster. There are times of joy, and times of depression. There are times of stress and anxiety and times where there is drama and you consider submitting your life story to a scriptwriter to perhaps be considered for a spot on The Lifetime Channel. We laugh, we cry and we move on. Pieces of our past stay within us, sometimes buried deep down inside our ...
When and Where Can I Manifest Positive Energy?
This was a question I asked myself numerous of times as I was developing in my spirituality. It took many years of soul searching, studying, and mental exercise. Finally, I was spiritually enlightened and the answer was so simple, I couldn’t believe I made it out to be such a complicated aspect for most of my life. In my previous post “What Is My Favorite Way To Manifest Positive Energy?” I explain that I choose prayer as my means to connect with whom I view as my Higher Power. So in this ...
My Acne Journey: How I Was Led To Treat My Acne Naturally
I began experiencing breakouts on my face around the age of thirteen years old. I remember my first pimple was on my chin and I had no idea what it was. It was right before my piano recital and my step-dad tried to wipe it off thinking it was a crumb, but it wouldn’t budge. Little did I know that would be the beginning of my very long, excruciating journey with troubled skin. My mom suffered from severe acne. She had it since I could remember. When I was little I remember innocently using it ...
8 Undeniable Reasons Why You Need Goji Berries In your Life
Goji berries are, in my opinion, a secret gold and the world’s best-kept secret amongst all nutrient dense berries. If you are hearing about this fruit for the first time, it may have an odd ring to its name. Believe me, as you get more acquainted with the goji berries amazing capabilities, you will wonder haw you ever lived life without it! The Goji Berry History The Goji berry also goes by the name “Wolfberry”. It is the fruit of the Lycium barbarum, which grows in a tall and slim shrub ...
How To Build Confidence And Embrace Your Acne Prone Skin
Suffering from acne, not matter what the type and level of severity, can be physically, emotionally, and mentally painful. Acne prone skin is often seen as dirty or disfiguring to the public eye which causes a lot of people to suffer from low self esteem, embarrassment, depression andanxiety. You may be a teenager picking at cystic acne, a person crying about their nodular acne, or scraping by through life with adult hormonal acne. No matter what your story is, this video will help remind you ...