Whether you’re kicking off this list mid-December (it’s okay… you’re not the only one) or you’re starting the year with a bang, it’s always a good idea to make note of the things you should do before the end of the year. This doesn’t mean you have to add more to your plate, it’s not…
We see people treating happiness as a destination, when really it’s made up of all the moments in our days and the choices we make. Happy women haven’t ‘arrived’ at happiness, they’ve made a conscious choice to make happiness part of their lives. In doing so, there are some things that happy women don’t do,…
“Wait… you’re not wearing makeup?” Hearing this is actually a really nice compliment, but it also amazes me how much my lack of makeup surprises other people! I get all kinds of questions about why I don’t wear makeup and what I do wear so I figured it was a great topic to start talking…
Everyone has different ideas of what success looks like. For some, it’s having a stable career, climbing the corporate ladder, owning a home, having a bunch of money. For other’s it’s creating a family, having a happy marriage, and raising happy independent children. And for some, it’s a hybrid of the two, or something totally…
When we were in our teens our metabolism had our back, we could eat cheeseburgers for breakfast, lunch and dinner and a ‘healthy’ meal consisted of whatever our parents cooked on the weekend. But as we get older we learn that healthy has a totally different meaning. We start to seek out our own healthy…
Whether you’re at a point in your life when you want to change things up, you’re working on your own personal development, or you’re facing the New Year and want to make this next year your best one yet, you need some inspiration and motivation behind you to get you there. One of the best…
One of our biggest expenses by far is food. I see it time and time again, when people go through their expenses and work out how much they have been spending, in comparison to how much they think they’ve been spending, one of the biggest disparities is always around food. Which is why I talk so much about how…
If there is one thing I have heard more than anything else, one struggle, one question, one topic that comes up more than any other topic it is this: How to get your husband to open up and talk to you when you can barely hold a conversation without either fighting, or just not being…
If you read any articles about marriage after kids, you’ll most likely read that it’s more hard work, that you have to make more effort or any other derivative of ‘hard’ and ‘work’. Which is true to some extent. But I don’t think we focus on the positive enough, the ways in which marriage is…
Feeling a little stuck in a boring marriage? You’re not alone. So often we hear of couples who feel like they are in a rut, or that the spark of their marriage is gone. It’s no wonder it happens too. When you first start dating and in the early days of marriage, everything is new…