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5 Tips for My Curly Girls Going Straight for Fall
Silk press + Blowout season is upon us!! For my curly girls like myself (4C standup!), October marks the beginning of safely straightening your curls without fear. And I for one have been patiently waiting. Why do I silk press? A silk press or a professional blowout is a curly girls dream specifically in the fall. It allows us to dabble in both worlds, the curly + the straight. With both a silk press and a blowout the hair is straightened using a blow dryer, flat iron and sometimes a roller brush. The hair is treated, straighten and often times trimmed. As a curly person, you do not have to…
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3 Easy Stretches to Release Tension
With many locations still closed or operating full remote due to Covid, some of us have the luxury of being able to still work from home. Now while there are many positives to having the ability to work from home, there is no denying that there are some downsides to being in the same space for the majority of your day. Movement is an important aspect in promoting positive mental health. Through movement, you can energetically lift your spirits and increase circulation throughout the body. This can even be done in as little as 20 min. Whether you are working from home, working with short breaks or small spaces you…
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3 Tips for Moving Plants Inside for Fall
This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill. To all of my new plantparents, or this might serve as a reminder to my OG plantparents. The time has come to move your outdoor plants indoors. Depending on where you live in the world, fall may be showing its face a more and more with each passing day. Here in NC we have started to see consistent low temps which tells me its time to move my plant babies inside. During the spring and summer due to the warmer weathers, especially at night, I like to move certain plants outside to be as close to their natural…
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A Week of Mindful Eating
I started eating mindfully and it has completely reshaped how I view mealtime. I wouldn’t categorize myself as a fast/quick eater before last week, but after completing a full week of mindful eating I now know I have been scarfing down food hand over fist since Ive been old enough to feed myself. Why do we quick eat? There are a lot of situations that can produce a behavior of quick eating; from growing up in a large family down to lunch time in school we have all experienced situations that have conditioned us to eat fast. Even as an adult I have experienced “30 min” lunches or visiting restaurants…
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Easy Slow Cooker Oats
Ok, so I was this years old when I discovered Slow Cooker Oats! I literally had no idea that was even a thing. But once you know better you start doing better, am I right? With the months cooling down while the schedules are ramping up, you know I am all for things EASY. So when looking for easy breakfast ideas I came across a few variations of overnight oats. One thing led to another and boom! I was down a rabbit-hole of Slow Cooker Oat combinations. Slow Cooker Oats is really no different than regular oatmeal or even overnight oats. The beauty however lies in the fact that you…
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7 Affirmations of Grace
Have you ever heard the saying “Words have power”? The words we speak have the ability to either breath life + manifestation or it can fuel negativity + tear down esteem. For the most part we have all been taught to speak kind to one another, the ole “if you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”, but for whatever reason those rules tend to not apply when thinking of self. Negative self talk is REAL. We have all been guilty of it at some point or another. Didn’t get the job? We pick apart why we were not qualified. Didn’t fit into the dress?…
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Spaghetti but Make it Fashion
If you don’t know anything about me by now, know this. I LOVE an easy throw together meal. And if that meal can be one of those comforting meals, then we are really hitting on all cylinders. Now while a pasta dish is essentially mandatory at least once a week in my household. I have to admit I have made this particular one 2-3 times in one week before. It really is that easy and delicious. So think “spaghetti” but make it fashion. This dish is both nutritious and can be made with simple ingredients that you likely already have on hand. I also love that this sauce can really…
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Cold Showers are the New Black
This summer has been unseasonably warm here in the Carolina’s and honestly the weather all over the US for just about all of 2020 has been questionable. Speaking as a person who “run’s hot”, (I heat up pretty quickly internally + have trouble cooling down, a not so awesome side effect of Grave’s Disease), finding ways to stay cool is literally my pastime. So this summer with virtually nowhere to go due to all the closings, I had to get a little bit creative when it came to staying cool. *cues music* This is where Cold Showers became an every day thing in my household. So I know what you…
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Celebrating Wins
I left the house TWICE this week without my wallet + once without my keys (I took my hubs)🤷🏾♀️. I let a cantaloupe go bad because I completely forgot it was outside. Sigh. Let’s just say on more than one occasion this week, I was given “signs” that I needed to slow down. This week was hard. Things didn’t go as planned. I had to pivot + dodge. And I have never been happier about seeing the weekend. Why is it so easy for all the things that went wrong to roll off our tongues? Why don’t we take the time to celebrate our wins? Not just the big ones,…
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Got Breakfast? 5 Quick Morning Ideas
For the longest time I’ve avoided breakfast. I even deemed myself as a non breakfast eater for much of my twenties + even the start of my 30s. The issue wasn’t as simple as not being hungry in the mornings. My issue was I never knew what to make AND the things I would think to make seem to have an ingredients list a mile long. So like many people I just loaded up on ice coffee or beverages and thugged it out till lunchtime. This of course left me STARVING by lunch, which was a domino effect of bad food decisions for the rest of the day 🤦🏾♀️. What…
