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Mental Health

10 Ways You Can Show up for YOU!

10 Ways You Can Show up for YOU!

Showing up for yourself. Is that even a thing? Where is the time? What do I even do? What does showing up for myself even look like? It is a thing.  It has always been a thing. And somewhere between living to take care of your family and working hard against the tide to make it in your career, has left you, feeling overloaded, empty and quite frankly in work mode.  Make it work.  Make it all happen.  Do it  all and do it all well. You are showing up for your family. You are showing up for your significant…

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Mental Health

5 Ways to Practice Self Love Everyday

5 Ways to Practice Self Love Everyday

You know when you wake up one day and feel a sinking pit in your tummy? Like, hello…  you are supposed to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day.  Well that’s the thing, sometimes, for people that suffer from depression, this funk can come and go in waves. I used to be a very positive person with a sunny disposition, I was chatty and inquisitive and generally a loud rambunctious person. But as I grew older, I had a child and experienced postpartum depression which morphed into mild general depression.  This means that I experience days …

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Mental Health

I am Here for You – How to Help Someone Struggling with Mental Health

I am Here for You – How to Help Someone Struggling with Mental Health

Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day. For the last 5 years I have been diligently promoting it on social media every year because I was one of those individuals that was touched by mental illness.  I had postpartum depression right after having my son. I had always been a fun loving person who didn’t have an ounce of sadness in my every day.  But after having my son, I was not able to regulate the hormones in my body and I began to feel things I had never before.  Sadness, doubt, suffocation. All these things that were happening to my…

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REAL TALK

Bullying in Kindergarten – Helping your Child Navigate

Bullying in Kindergarten – Helping your Child Navigate

It really does start early.  Doesn’t it? I figured this would have been a concept I would need to bring up much later.  But I guess I am a little late to the party.My mom had gone to pick up Azu from school yesterday and he didn’t seem like his usual talkative self so she probed him about his day. When I got home, he came to me and said, “Today was not a good day.”  When I asked why, I wasn’t expecting what I heard next.  You see, Azu is a friendly, happy kid who plays with everyone on…

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Collaborations

8 Lessons I Learned in 8 Years of Marriage

8 Lessons I Learned in 8 Years of Marriage

The husband and I got married right after I finished university.  To some it may seem a little on the quicker end of the scale – and in hindsight – it was.  I think we were both very inexperienced and still just learning to manage ourselves. This post is written from the perspective of our specific marriage. We were in a relationship for 5 years prior to marrying.  We really thought it would be an easy transition, but boy, were we in for a wake up call. 8 Lessons in 8 Years of Marriage 1.Year one is the hardest.  Just…

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