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21 Day Anti Inflammatory Diet for Beginners | Looking for an anti-inflammatory meal plan to help boost your immune system and keep your autoimmune disease under control while also helping you to lose weight? We’ve put together a 21-day meal plan for beginners, complete with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack recipes you’ll love.

21 Day Anti Inflammatory Diet to Detox and Reduce Inflammation

Journaling for Mental Health | Lots of great ideas to teach you how to start journaling for anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges as well as for therapy and general self-care. Find out how to get started writing today, keep your thoughts and creativity flowing on the daily, and check out 15 of our favorite therapy journal prompts!

Journaling for Mental Health: How to Start Journaling and Keep at It

13 Logical Consequences that Actually Work | Enforcing logical consequences in the classroom and at home is a fabulous way for teachers to encourage good classroom behavior and parents to get kids to behave without yelling, but knowing HOW to use logical consequences (and how to implement them successfully) can be tricky. We’re sharing our best positive parenting tips and 13 logical consequences that actually work!

How to Discipline a Child: 13 Logical Consequences that Actually Work

How to Dress to Look Thinner | Want to lose 10 pounds without exercising or dieting? Whether you’re plus size or just want to know how to dress for your body shape, these tips and ideas are for you! We’ll teach you what to wear, the importance of choosing clothes that fit, how to avoid cellulite on your legs, the best neckline, and everything you need to know about skirts, jeans, pants, patterns, and more! #lookthinner #dressthinner #looktaller #fashionhacks #beautyhacks #loseweight #flatbelly

How to Dress to Look Thinner: 23 Slimming Fashion Tips That Work!

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14 Natural Common Cold Remedies That Work | If you want to know how to get rid of a cold and all the symptoms that come with it fast, like a runny nose, sore throat, cough, chest congestion, headache, and fatigue, we're sharing 14 natural cures to help you feel better sooner! These DIY remedies will boost your immune system, giving you quick relief that lasts, and most of these can be used with babies and kids! #naturalremedies #homeremedies General Health

Feel Better Sooner: 14 Common Cold Remedies that Actually Work

If you’re looking for common cold remedies that offer relief from symptoms like a sore throat, sneezing, coughing, runny and/or stuffy nose, and headache, we’ve …

7-Day 1500 Calorie Diet Plan for Beginners | If losing weight is on your mind, and you're looking for easy meal plans, this post has it all! With 7 days of recipes each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, these menu options will teach you all about portion control, and how low carb and high protein options can help you stay full for longer for fast results that last! Perfect for women and for men, the 1500 calorie diet works! #1500calories #1500caloriediet #1500calorieplan Breakfast

Low Carb 1500 Calorie Diet Plan: 7-Day Meal Plan for Weight Loss

The new year is around the corner and everyone is looking for the best eating plans to fuel their New Year’s weight loss resolutions. After …

How to Look Expensive on a Budget | If you're looking for fashion tips and hair and makeup hacks to make you look rich and classy for cheap, this post is for you! We're sharing 18 simple ideas to help you choose the right clothes and fool the world into thinking you spend thousands of dollars on your outfits. We're also sharing our best beauty hacks to make your hair and makeup look chic using affordable drugstore products that don't break the bank! #lookexpensive #howtolookexpensive Beauty

How to Look Expensive on a Budget: 18 Tips Every Girl Needs

If you want to know how to look expensive on a budget, you’re in for a treat! We’re sharing 18 simple tips you can start …

Intuitive Eating for Beginners | Want to know how to stop dieting without gaining weight? This post has 14 brilliant tips to help you learn how to fuel your body for optimal performance while also teaching you how to listen to your hunger cues to ensure you don't overeat. We've also included the principals of intuitive eating to help you learn how to make peace with your body, honor your hunger, stop emotional eating, and embrace the anti diet culture! #antidiet #intuitiveeating #mindfuleating Food

Intuitive Eating for Beginners: 14 Tips to Fuel Your Body without Guilt

We grow up with the notion of dieting all around us. From ads to movies, to friends and family, society has created a complicated relationship …

The Perimenopause Diet | If you’re looking for natural remedies to help you beat perimenopause symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, and weight gain, a healthy eating plan is a great place to start. Food plays a huge role in balancing hormones, and we’re sharing 15 foods you should eat and avoid to help you feel more energized and less irritable, manage hot flashes and sleep better, and avoid weight gain and belly bloat! #perimenopause #menopause #womenshealth #weightlossafter40 General Health

The Perimenopause Diet: 15 Foods to Eat and Avoid

If you’re suffering from bothersome symptoms of perimenopause, such as hot flashes, irritability and mood swings, insomnia, fatigue, and weight gain, you may benefit from …

19 Inspirational LGBTQ Quotes | Love is love! Whether you're in the process of coming out of the closet, looking for equality truths to share as part of your gay pride awareness campaign, or you want to find a way to support the feelings of the beautiful LGBTQ people in your life and community, this collection of short but powerful pride quotes is a great place to start. #LGBTQ #LGBTQquotes #lovequotes #gaypride Live Your Best Life

Love Is Love: 19 Meaningful LGBTQ Quotes to Inspire You

When I was about 23, I had a phone conversation with my mom that I’ll never forget. I remember being surprised to see her number …

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  • ‘NO WINTER LASTS FOREVER; NO SPRING SKIPS IT’S TURN.’ —Hal Borland⠀ .⠀ I don’t know about you, but I was NOT ready for the snow and cold last week. 😩 I feel like we barely got to enjoy fall fashion this year, and my Achilles’ tendon has NOT appreciated the transition from heels to flat, sensible boots, lol. But the cold weather has definitely put me in a festive mood, and I have to admit I’m much more productive when it’s too miserable to be outside. 🤗⠀ .⠀ Here’s to a happy and productive week!
  • ‘ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH COFFEE AND DRY SHAMPOO.’ —Unknown⠀ .⠀ Here’s to being lazy and spending time making memories with the people we love this weekend! ☕️
  • ‘WHO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME WITH WILL HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU LIVE. SPEND TIME WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE.’ —Joel Ostend⠀ .⠀ OMG, truer words have never been spoken, am I right?! Here’s to focusing on the positive people in our lives, and not allowing the negative thoughts of others ruin our spirts. 🙌
  • ‘YOU, AND ONLY YOU, ARE ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHO YOU BECOME AND HOW HAPPY YOU ARE.’ —Rachel Hollis⠀ .⠀ I’m part of @msrachelhollis monthly Life Coaching group, and finally caught October’s session last week, which was about ‘mortality motivation’. Sounds really morbid, I know, but those who have lost someone suddenly and unexpectedly like I lost my dad can appreciate how you’re never really the same afterwards. The pain goes away and you focus on the good instead of the bad, but the experience makes you see life differently. There’s always this underlying fear about when the next bad thing will happen and whether or not you’ll be able to cope.⠀ .⠀ Anyway, the topic was timely given that I’ve been trying to figure out what I was meant to learn from losing my dad lately, and Rachel gave me so much to think about. Am I showing up for my life authentically? Am I giving 100% of myself to the people who really matter to me so I don’t end up regretting all the things I didn’t do or say? What legacy do I want to leave behind for my daughter? Will she be proud of the mom who raised her? ⠀ .⠀ It was SO inspiring, and I have been feeling so much lighter, motivated, and focused since watching it. It gave me clarity on what’s important, and reminded me to appreciate the gift of TIME.⠀ .⠀ Yesterday is gone and tomorrow isn’t promised, but today is a blessing, so don’t lose sight of what’s important. ✨
  • ‘EVERYONE HAS TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING. I BELIEVE I’LL HAVE ANOTHER GLASS OF WINE.’ —Unknown⠀ .⠀ 👆Exactly! I have had A WEEK, and have been dreaming of a glass (or 3) of white. It’s a date night for us and I can’t wait to spend some time with my sexy husband. Happy Friday, my beautiful friends! 🥂
  • I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately and all the ways life has changed since he died. Losing him was totally unexpected, and if you’re close to me, you know the aftermath of his passing was nothing short of awful. My daughter was only 3 when he died, and I remember feeling like I was on autopilot throughout the whole ordeal and I’m not sure I’ve ever really come to terms with it all.⠀ .⠀ Last week I asked my sweet girl if I could read Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book to her. My dad used to read it to my sister and me, and we always laughed at how he mixed the words up, and I thought it would be fun. She agreed and let me read the entire thing from cover to cover, even though I could tell she lost interest about halfway through.⠀ .⠀ When we were done, she looked at me thoughtfully and asked, ‘do you wish he was still alive?’ Bless. It was such an innocent question that could’ve thrown me over the edge, but my dad would’ve loved how brave she was to ask me that, and her directness and innocence would’ve made him smile.⠀ .⠀ As awful as it was to lose my dad, I’m slowly realizing how much I’ve learned from the whole experience. It’s made me a better mom and wife, it’s taught me the importance of creating a happy and healthy home, it’s reminded me not to take the little things for granted, it’s given me permission to let go of things outside of my control, and lately it’s reminded me not to take my own health and well-being for granted so I can be fully present with my own family. And for that I’m grateful.⠀ .⠀ If you’re missing someone today, I hope the happy memories outweigh the bad. I’m not sure we’ll ever understand why the people we love most are taken from us too soon, but I believe we must find a way to honor their memory by living our lives with as much purpose as possible. 😘
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