Yesterday was my first day taking a cake decorating class. My inspiration to take the class was because I had bought my friend a gift to try out cake decorating. After researching classes for my friend, I realized that I also had a desire to learn how to decorate cakes. I’ve always loved baking since…

As you live an authentic lifestyle you will likely face criticism at some point. Not everyone will approve of your choices and some people may be critical of your efforts. Criticism can come in many forms and can be aggressive and direct or polite and subtle. For instance, the summer after I graduated high school,…

Over the past several years, I’ve had pretty light-hearted conversations with my peers about growing older. For instance, just yesterday I was having a conversation with a friend I hadn’t seen in a few months who is currently 26. She expressed a fear about not having her life together and gave off a few reasons…

Being stuck in the past can be painful and prevent our lives from moving forward. Life is always moving forward, but by staying in the past, you’ll miss all the wonderful opportunities right in front of you. However, sometimes these memories are out of our control. We want to not be obsessed with our past…

Being in love is amazing and the beginnings of a relationship can be an exciting time full of possibilities and excitement. However, understanding how a relationship should be can be confusing. There’s so much information about how love should look from the media, friends and loved ones who mean well. Vague statements about love are…

Making someone’s day brighter is an amazing way to start off your week and a great way to show your appreciation to loved ones or even a stranger. There’s something wonderful about brightening someone’s day by making their workload a bit lighter or reaching out with a small act of kindness. Check out 50 ways…

Many of us have overcome the fear of things not working out. We take the plunge and give it our best shot. However, in some cases, no matter how hard you try, things just don’t work out. That’s how I felt in several experiences during my lifetime. Within my love life, I’d try everything to…

For many of us, embracing the fact that we deserve love can be a challenge. Things in our life may not be progressing in the way we had hoped or we have patterns from our childhood that are disrupting our ability to feel like we can accept love into our lives. During my childhood, I…

Laughter is a great reliever of stress. I’m currently involved in improv comedy so I get a nice dose of laughter pretty regularly. Laughing has had tremendous impacts on my mood. I’m more relaxed, calm, easy going and less likely to get hung up on daily stress. Laughter has a myriad of benefits. These benefits…

We’ve all experienced a moment where a situation happened that made us feel terrible or nervous. Throughout the rest of the day you think about the situation constantly and go over what happened in your head, causing even more stress and anxiety. I felt this way quite a bit about a year or so ago….