10 Years Later...

It was 10 years ago when I first started blogging.  Since then, I've graduated from college, moved to Chicago, earned a Master's degree in Education, got married, and started my career as a teaching artist. 

Since then, I've also experienced one of the most difficult times in my life.  While I will open up about it more sometime soon, I'm not quite ready to share the full details of my experience.  What's important to share is that following a personal loss, I was forced to confront many feelings and desires I had neglected.  Through support from friends, counselors, and books (Happier Now by Nataly Kogan and Super Attractor by Gabrielle Bernstein), I reflected on my emotional and physical health, and what I can control to move forward in my life in a positive way.

With that, I'm choosing to return to blogging.  I'm choosing to return to a life focused on positivity, self-care, and wellness.  I'm choosing to share my journey with you, and I hope you will join me on this path of rediscovery.

Stay tuned for updates on fashion trends, skincare products, healthy routines, and more.  Live your best life, 24/7 365.

For now, I will leave you with this quote from Nataly Kogan;
"Happiness doesn't arise from making everything in our lives perfect.  It comes from embracing life as it is and finding small moments of gratitude, joy, kindness, beauty, and human connection within it.  By truly being present for those moments and being grateful for them, we find the resilience to weather life's storms."

       


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