We all have goals in life, but depending on our circumstances, we sometimes end up feeling equally pressed to address several goals at one time. I have been in this situation for five years. The problem is that each takes from the other and the progress we make on all...
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If you read Mocktails for Mommy, you know I recently decided to take a break from alcohol for a year via One Year No Beer (OYNB), an online program which I highly recommend. If you too have any concerns about the impact of alcohol on your life or want a status update...
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1) Traveling to a new place is exciting; an adventure. It makes you feel alive. As Tim Ferriss says, “the opposite of happiness is not sadness. Happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin, but the opposite of happiness is actually boredom.” The...
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We all have things we want out of life; things we want to do, places we want to see, people we want to be…Yet if you looked at the majority of people’s timeline to get “there”, the common term would be “someday.” The problem with “someday” is that it never comes. It...
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Some of us have physical scars, but we probably all have emotional scars. I think it’s natural not to want scars to show, at least not to everyone. Having lost 155 pounds in a pretty short amount of time, I had to have a few surgeries afterward to remove excess skin...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.