Today you’re hearing from Melissa about letting go of toxic people in your life. But not just any toxic people, family members. When women suffer postpartum, sometimes family can turn out to be the opposite of warm and helpful and sometimes drastic measures are needed to protect your mental sanity as well as your family….
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3 Foundations of Self Care
We need to master basic life skills before changing or modifying things. Because what happens is, if we don’t have a foundation, the whole system crumbles. So you need to have a solid foundation in order to build on things.
Meditations & Affirmations for Anxiety
Holistic Healing Methods: Strategies To Cope With Anxiety
Reading with Toddlers + Book Review
Don’t Ever Look Behind Door 32 Book Review and Sanity Saving Tips on Reading with Children
Hot mess express?
Style your way into motherhood It was 6 months after I gave birth to our first born. A sweet, big blue eyed, miniature version of me. She was sleeping through the night, about 10-12 hours, nursing, and hitting all the milestones on the dot. It had been 6 months since we moved away from our…
Father’s Day Made Simple
**blog post may contain affiliate links. I do earn a commission off of these at no additional cost to you, but it helps me feed my family every month** I’ll admit, I’ve never been that great of a gift giver- it isn’t my love language, and it isn’t something I’m great at. So buying thoughtful…
Self Care with a Newborn
Self Care has become this incredible topic that I see more and more women trying to embrace. But what I see a lot of is people thinking that self care has to cost a ton of money or take a ton of time. And let’s be honest- when you have a newborn, there really isn’t…
Connecting Body & Breath – Guest Blog
Welcome to Motherhood! This is one of the most wonderful and crazy adventures you will experience. At this point, you may already be experiencing some of the Motherhood ‘symptoms’ that aren’t discussed much. The hormones are wild, sleep is a very different activity than it once was, and life as a whole is different….
Levels of 10
A few weeks ago I was having this really amazing conversation with a dear friend of mine and she brought up how everyone has “hard days”. Sometimes when I’m venting about a hard day, in comparison to others- it’s rather small and insignificant. But each day the level changes. Moms, I know you feel me…
Tired as a Mother
How many moms out there have seen the endless parade of ‘tired as a mother’ coffee mugs and shirts? Or all the funny memes about how parents never get any sleep once they have kids? I’ll be honest and say that I’ve laughed at a few of them myself because BEING A PARENT IS HARD!…