Category: Personal Development
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Curves, Clarity, and Zero Apologies: A Goddess’s Guide to Self-Love
Full disclosure: this is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. Anything for breaking beauty standards and empowering women, amirite?! Shoutout to all my fellow curvy girls! This one’s for you. 🫶🏻 I’m highly aware that whether you’re on the slimmer side or the voluptuous side, or even the muscular side,…
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Comparison Called, I Declined. Here’s Why You Should Too.
Primary photo credit: Magenta on Unsplash.com “Comparison is the thief of joy,” ol’ Theodore Roosevelt once said. Which comes as no surprise as I first heard this quote from an American. So, it totally tracks lol. Dealing with envy these days is the trickiest rabbit hole in existence. It’s literally at the palm of your…
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Right, Wrong, and Everything In Between… Minus Murder
I’m no philosopher obviously. But I’m going to let my Sagittarius North Node and Scorpio Mercury in the 9H take over this blog post. Don’t mind me. Astrological disclaimer aside, it’s been a few years since I’ve embedded the gray area of right and wrong in my belief system. Because throughout all of my life…
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How to Stop Taking Things Personally and Start Living with Peace
Ever reacted to someone else’s remark or behavior without thinking? Lashed out from a place of hurt, not caring about the looming consequences? Spoke too soon only to eventually regret it? I know I have. If you haven’t, congrats (I guess), and good for you HAHAHAHAHA. Taking things personally is quite a tricky defense mechanism.…
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Hitting the Bullseye: How to Align Your Goals with Your Vision
This is an important PSA to all fellow big dreamers out there! 🗣️ I know the year has just begun, but it’s never too late to start setting purposeful goals you’ve always wanted to achieve. Gotta make use of all that new year buzz, amirite? While I’ve only been properly writing my vision and goals…
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How to Own and Speak Your Truth From the Heart
I’m not gonna lie. This post may or may not be inspired by my previous one, which talked about clear (ergo, kind) communication. A part of practicing clear-kind communication is owning and speaking your truth, whether it’s with a loved one or a colleague/business partner. I want to take that a step further by daring…
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Why We Must Be Clear To Be Kind
If you read the title of this blog post and a specific Letters to Cleo song played in your head, then you are one of my people. High-five! 🤪 Anyway, circling back to what we’re here for. Bridging the relationship between clarity–particularly clear communication–and kindness isn’t new, but I do believe it’s important to emphasize…
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Reframing The Concept of Happiness for a Holistic Way of Life
If you watch enough movies and TV shows, you will encounter at least one character that’s gung ho on their pursuit of happiness (pun intended – I have yet to watch the film though). There may be a scene or two where this character gets asked, “Where do you want to be in five years?”…
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Owning Your Authentic Self: 5 Ways to Build Confidence
At the time that I’m writing this, news just broke out that Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year is “authentic”. As I like to say here: coincidence? I THINK NOT! Bear with me since I like to revel in these moments where the universe gives me a solid confirmation about the things I do. Anyway,…
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How to Claim Your Universal Magic Through Spirituality
Spirituality is a concept that some people may get intimidated or put off by, because as one of my good friends say, “They tend to think of hippies.” Contrary to popular belief, many spiritual individuals (including me) don’t really subscribe to the hippie lifestyle (the 1960s one in particular, because drugs and zero bathing? Not…
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