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Claim Your Care Kick-Off

Claim Your Care Kick-Off

It is time! Claim Your Care December is here. And it is now time for all of us to start claiming our care? Missed the Claim Your Care announcement?  Here’s […]

3 ways to support Circle de Luz this holiday season.

3 ways to support Circle de Luz this holiday season.

  There are three great ways you can support Circle de Luz this holiday season.   What is Circle de Luz? An innovative non-profit with a mission to empower young […]

10 Truths for Your Self-Acceptance Journey

Keynote Speaker at Gaston College in Dallas, North Carolina

photo by Jill E. Williams

Preparing for the New Year: Writing a Wellness Prescription

I love this time of year.  Yes, because there are special occasions- my birthday, the birthdays of other beloved family members, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the anniversary of our official adoption date, […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

Claim Your Care: A Challenge

Last week, I did cardiovascular exercise for the second time since August.  This from a woman who champions self-care and who identifies moving her body as one of the best, […]

this moment...

this moment…

           

a poem for this day…

  wishing you a day full of joy and love and hope and happiness… and starfish. Starfish by Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up […]

Counting your blessings...

Counting your blessings…

To think of summarizing my blessings on one day each year feels a bit overwhelming.  Surely, I’ll forget something or someone and well, then, I’ll just feel awful (instead of […]

Price of Beauty Month 2 Update

Price of Beauty Month 2 Update

You might recall that on October 23 I made the commitment to track my beauty spending in a post called .  I figured the best way to update you here […]

Give Thanks!

Give Thanks!

So, here is a little secret from my world: I typically write my Monday blog post on Fridays (since one of my Basta! commitments has long been to not work […]