Tag: Me Time

How To Find Inspiration When You’re Just Not Feeling It

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Inspiration can come at any time and from anywhere. It can also feel like it’s lost in the uncertainty of the times were experiencing now. We can easily get bogged down with online school, remote work and the thousand things dragging on us each day. I have felt that lack of inspiration many times over the last few months.

How can we feel inspired when the nation feels like it’s falling apart? What can when do when our time and energy is spent teaching our kids and completing our professional work? We can regroup and refocus. All it takes is a little bit of action to help you get back to your center. Continue reading →

Soup to Sooth Your Soul and Your Gut

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Comfort food can come in many forms. Until Fall of last year, I’d dive into fried foods, mac-n-cheese and wine without a blink of the eye. I’m on the go being a working mom so convenience food helped me along the way. It was all tasty and good to me. I ate my kids’ food too and it didn’t matter the time of day or night I’d indulge. I just loved to eat.

I paid for it though. Weight gain and discomfort led me to see an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. She suggested that I cut the acidic diet. I had no idea how badly I was eating until I really looked at the foods and drinks I was consuming each day. The fruits and vegetables I thought were healthy weren’t for someone with an acidic gut. The foods were highly acidic and contributing to my health issues. Continue reading →

Dream It. Plan It. Do It.

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Have you ever been around someone who constantly talks about how busy they are? There’s so much work to be done yet not much ever gets accomplished. The conversations revolve around all the things on the list instead of actually working on it.

This thought process becomes a repetitive cycle of the perceived busyness versus being productive. So how do you break the cycle?

As we move into 2020, the resolutions will likely fail and we’ll fall back into bad habits. I know that sounds negative but the statistics about New Year’s resolutions are pretty bleak. Instead of another post about setting resolutions, I thought I’d share 3 steps to get started on your next accomplishment. Continue reading →

Finding Your Passion as a Working Mom

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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.

We all have the same 24 hours in a day. I always wondered how some moms make it look so effortless to do it all. I realized after being a working mom for so long that it really isn’t effortless. It actually takes a lot of effort. A LOT. Continue reading →

5 Ways to Live Your Dreams without the Fluff

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Live-Your-DreamsAre you a dreamer, but already grown up? I remember being a kid and dreaming about becoming a championship horseback rider. I also wanted to ride skateboards for a living. I could do a mean 180 back in the day. I was a fearless dreamer.

I also became one of those young adults who didn’t know what I wanted to do. I went to college and obtained my communication degree. Yes, that’s communication not communications. There’s a difference. And then I fell into marketing and stuck around ever since. Continue reading →

5 Ways to Thrive as a Breadwinning Mom

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5 Ways to Thrive as a Breadwinning MomDid you know that moms are the sole or primary breadwinner in four out of 10 households with children? According to the Pew Research Center, women make up almost half (47%) of the U.S. labor force today, and the employment rate of married mothers with children has increased from 37% in 1968 to 65% in 2011.

The role of women in the workplace and home is constantly changing and the old tradition of mom stays home is being challenged economically and socially every day. Continue reading →

Setting Boundaries You’ll Keep

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I’ve been reading a lot about moms feeling overworked and struggling between career and motherhood and have listened to moms talk about it over the past few weeks. It’s so easy for us to strike up a conversation about work, motherhood and everything else in between. It feels good to know we are not alone with our struggles and our choices as working parents.

During a training I took last week, the topic of boundaries came up. The type of boundaries discussed revolved around setting boundaries with clients. How to be upfront, set boundaries as appropriate and then stick to them. Really, setting boundaries can be applied to ever aspect in our lives. Continue reading →

Who Says It’s A Mid-life Crisis?

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Close your eyes and imagine your  21 year-old self. Come on, humor me and take a minute to think back to that time. What were you doing? What did you want then? How did it feel? Scary, exciting or cool? Maybe you were  graduating college or working a full-time job. You may have already had a baby or about to get married.

I can remember being in college and feeling unsure about what I wanted to do once I graduated. Living in Silicon Valley, graduation meant going into a corporate job. What else would I do, right?

Now fast forward to today. What does that picture look like? Continue reading →