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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Charlotte Today Guest

Guest on live lifestyle television program in Charlotte, NC

You have to go pure.

You have to go pure.

I was recently talking to a dear friend who is at a different stage than I am- she’s very established in her career, a few years away from retirement, and […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

the break-up is only the beginning

And I’ll get to the now what, I promise.  But first, this perspective… Last week, someone retweeted a column I wrote for the Charlotte Observer for Love Your Body day […]