Tips & Tricks

Reframing negative thinking involves changing how you interpret and respond to unpleasant or unhelpful thoughts. It's a form of cognitive restructuring that can help you see situations and experiences more positively. To reframe negative thoughts, you can try the following...

At one point or another every mom has thought about their fitness goals. Whether it be to lose a few pounds, increase our stamina for chasing children around, or build some muscles to help ease the pain of pushing...

Walt Disney World is known as the most magical place on earth and I couldn’t agree more! I have wonderful memories from my own childhood family vacations. However, now as a mom of three children, the thought of a...

Frustrated with your kid for not eating any vegetables? Stressed out that your kid is not having a well-balanced diet? Well, don’t look too far for the culprit and take a good hard look at yourself! There are many articles...

In some ways, Summer 2020 beat me down hard. COVID was rampant, my kids were home, my business was slow, and my anxiety was high. However, last summer also lifted me up in ways I never would have expected.   How?...

School has started, and I’m doing all I can to keep the pace of our days as slow and laid back as possible. It’s very easy to succumb to chaos this time of year. With new schools, new activities,...

We've all had this moment. It's dinner time, and you call your child. You faintly hear a call back for "five more minutes." It suddenly dawns on you that your child has been sucked into the vacuum of gaming...

As we entered my favorite fundraiser of the year, Girl Scout's cookie season, my regular customers began to ask when the order forms would be coming. This was way before the campaign officially began. If only all fundraisers would...

I ask myself this question almost daily: How will we get through winter? The impact of COVID-19 hit our region full force last March. We were at the tail-end of winter when we began living an isolated life. Within a...

Every year, throughout the world, people are affected by the phenomenon of holiday weight gain. In the United States, research has found that people start to gain weight in October (think Halloween candy) and peak about 10 days after Christmas....