I’ve been in corporate marketing for many years. I enjoy working for small companies where I feel I can make a difference and collaborate with cross-functional teams. I earned my bachelor’s degree at a time in my life when my complete focus was on school. That wasn’t the case when I decided to study forContinue reading “Tips for Going Back to School”
Author Archives: Stephanie Lema
Finding Your Passion as a Working Mom
Being a working mom is hard. Sometimes it feels like a constant state of multi-tasking schedules and shifting priorities. Your time is spent from the moment you wake up until you crash in the evening. It can be really easy to let go of things you loved to do before you became a mom. WeContinue reading “Finding Your Passion as a Working Mom”
Book Review: The Happiness Equation
The Happiness Equation is a practical guide to developing the happiness muscles in your brain. It gives the reader a framework with real, practical ways to train your mind for the positive. The book outlines nine secrets for achieving happiness. And while these “secrets” are really nothing new, the approach and framework provide the toolsContinue reading “Book Review: The Happiness Equation”
Why We Love Special Olympics
It wasn’t so long ago I found a Special Olympics Arizona notice in my daughter’s backpack. I was so grateful her school offered participation in the events. Special Olympics is a wonderful organization that supports children and adults with intellectual disabilities through sports. The organization also improves the health of others through collaborations with healthContinue reading “Why We Love Special Olympics”
How Do You Define Success?
It’s the million-dollar question that you have to look from within to define. Success is subjective. It’s an intangible that to some are only defined by the tangible. To others, it comes from a feeling of accomplishment. However you define it, Success Magazine is a good place to find the cornerstones of self-fulfillment that definesContinue reading “How Do You Define Success?”
Homemade Trampoline Therapy Activities
It took over five years to get our daughter’s conditions diagnosed. We moved to a new state in between all of the doctor appointments and it was a very long journey. Her first neurologist couldn’t figure out her diagnosis. He looked at me that last day I saw him and said, “She is a littleContinue reading “Homemade Trampoline Therapy Activities”
Benefits of Practicing Daily Gratitude
We’re already a month into the new year. Hard to believe how fast time flew by this month. Resolutions were made and broken within the first few weeks of the year. One poll suggested that 80% of the people who set a resolution failed by February. Yikes! Don’t despair if the resolution didn’t work outContinue reading “Benefits of Practicing Daily Gratitude”
Kids, Bikes and Adaptive Play
For moms like me, watching that moment is inspiring and also bitter-sweet. It’s hard for me to imagine our girl taking off on her own two-wheeled bike. She has balance and coordination challenges along with other conditions and intellectual disability. She tries very hard to ride her bike and she really just wants to joinContinue reading “Kids, Bikes and Adaptive Play”
Book Review: Live Happy
It’s not often I come across a book I want to read a few times over. Live Happy: Ten Practices for Choosing Joy is one of those books. I read it three times so far! Live Happy combines the science of happiness and ways you can create joy each and every day. From an attitudeContinue reading “Book Review: Live Happy”
A Mom’s Journey into Inclusive Play, Advocacy and Partnership
Advocacy has many meanings. When I think of that word, I imagine protests in the streets to build awareness or a fight to right a wrong with a certain issue. It’s a way we rise up to support people who are underserved. It’s how we support a cause to achieve a common goal for theContinue reading “A Mom’s Journey into Inclusive Play, Advocacy and Partnership”
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