• Beauty,  Style

    Up Your Beauty & Style

    You can change direction and up your beauty and style game at any point, it just takes learning, practice and a lot of self love.  I haven’t always felt like a beautiful woman.  In fact, the majority of my youth through my thirties was spent feeling pretty average, uncomfortable in my body, unsure of what to wear and doing very little on the hair and makeup front. Several years ago I met a woman who I wouldn’t consider to be naturally beautiful but after spending time with her, I decided she was the most beautiful and feminine woman I had ever met.   This post is not sponsored. I only…

  • Travel

    Packing & Travel Anxiety

    My top 10 ways to get you through it Having just returned from vacation this week, I think its well timed to write about my travel anxiety and what I’ve learned about getting myself out of town and integrated back into life again without a complete melt down. If you do a google search for travel or packing anxiety you’ll quickly realize it’s definitely a thing, not just a me or maybe you problem. For me it started sometime around when I became a mom. I remember traveling and particularly packing becoming a real struggle. What I once enjoyed as an independent free spirit became burdensome and stressful. Forgetting to…

  • Beauty,  Self-love

    Bad Day or Feeling Not So Pretty?

    This is my favorite calming and comforting routine to feel better quickly. It’s easy enough to feel pretty when everything is going well.  But what about the days where life feels like thick sludge that you are having to wade your way through?  It’s not nearly as easy to feel good yet alone pretty on these days. Even more troubling is that these days come at us no matter where we are in life.  We could be really bogged down in a difficult time or stage of life and you will still have days where you feel good and days where you feel not so good, days where you feel…