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2- Find Your Support System These are people that you admire, people that will listen without judgement, people that will not belittle your successes or dwell on your failures, instead they will lift you up when you need it and give you the truth when you don't wa...

I didn't diet, I just decided who I wanted to be and everything else fell in place. I still indulged because I decided that I was the healthy girl who loved food and friends and life without guilt because I was a girl that found balance. Don't get me wrong, I s...

If you are like me and find yourself trying to figure out dinner at 5pm, this is your savior. With the Instant Pot you can have all of those homemade meals that used to take hours in a slow cooker ready for dinner in a snap and you don't have to be an experienced c...

Self love and taking time for yourself is never wrong. Taking time to heal in whatever way you need is never wrong. It is never selfish, in fact, quite the opposite. Remember that when you are loving yourself completely you can love others completely. When you are at y...

What you need to know about how to book your flights cheaper, apps to download, how to pack, what to pack and more...

irst, I want to talk about an incredible full circle moment I had and the reality of this post-Italy hangover. When I  was at a low point in my life, having recently discovered that my husband was cheating on me and didn't seem like the nightmare would ever end,

I don’t know what the next eleven days has in store for me, but one thing I do know is that I am going to soak every bit of it in; the moments that frustrate me, the moments that make me laugh, the unexpected and the moments that take my breath away. Every moment is pa...

I am here telling my story, because there is hope. And if you are feeling stuck and in need of a pivot, please know that the pivot won’t be easy at all, but I can promise you that on the other side of it is hope, joy, self awareness and the strength that comes from doi...

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when I lost myself, but I'm pretty sure I know how I lost myself and I feel like knowing how we got to a place is the most vital thing if we want to know how to get back home.  So that's where I begin.

I remember a few years ago w...

Why share? Why air your “dirty laundry” you may say? Well…I have no intention of airing my dirty laundry per say, but instead, owning my truth and sharing my personal struggle because when I was struggling most I did what every sane person does at one o’clock in the mo...