International Women’s Day 2019

Today, March 8th, is a day on which we take the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of our sisters all around the world. On this day, may I suggest that we also look at one very special woman in particular? In order to do this, I need you to get...

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Happy Day of Love

We've spent the last ten days thinking about ways we can love ourselves and others, and I hope you have enjoyed it. I'm so thankful and grateful for the love of my husband, my mother, daughter, bonus children and extended family and friends. I'm also incredibly...

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Day 10 – Love Challenge

Gonna Love You From Head to Toe Are you now singing the old 80’s hit by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam?  There’s your “ear worm” for the day – you’re welcome!  With today’s blog we are at the end of our 10-Day Love Challenge, and I'd like to address women's health.  (Oh, and...

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Day 9 – The Love Challenge

What the World Needs Now... Love! We’ve focused much of our Challenge on how we can care, nurture and love ourselves, our relationships, and our community.  Now let’s take it a step farther – LET'S SHOW OUR LOVE TO THE WORLD - OUR EARTH! We have been given this...

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Day 8 – The Love Challenge

How Can I  Learn to Love My Life? For many of us, life didn’t exactly turn out the way you planned.  You’ve had some major setbacks, or a lot of little bumps along the road that seem never-ending.  It may make you angry, or you may be reading this and...

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Day 7 – The Love Challenge

Want to know some essentials secrets to self-care? Today I’d like to share another way to pamper and nurture yourself – using essential oils.  Long before essential oils were wildly popular like they are today, I was using patchouli oil as my “signature...

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Day 6 – Love Challenge

Giving of yourself is priceless and incredibly rewarding. Yesterday we talked about self-care and nurturing you with #nuture900. Today (now that you are sufficiently nurtured, that is), we're turning around the focus and looking at how we can serve and nurture those...

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Day 5 – Love Challenge

You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup Nurturing yourself - what does that mean for you? Do you have visions of lying on some sandy beach with turquoise waters?  A spa day?  A weekend getaway? Some thing or activity that is lovely but expensive and time-consuming and...

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Day 4 – Love Challenge

When was your last date night??? Here’s a real challenge – finding time and energy for a date night, with your significant other or a friend.  After a long week of juggling work, life and everything involved in that, you can barely make it to Friday without...

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Day 3 – Love Challenge

Today I Will Love Myself Enough to Exercise! Give those muscles, tendons and bones some serious love by exercising them!  The perfect couple for health is diet (aka fueling your body), and exercise.  They go hand-in-hand towards maximum energy, longevity and fitness. ...

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