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What Have You Done for YOU Lately?
This just popped into my head. Maybe I’ve been reading comments in too many forums but it seems we’re all guilty of expecting someone else to do something for us. To say thank you To show appreciation To acknowledge the job you’re doing My question is: What are you doing for you? When’s the last time you declared a time out so you could take care of you? To thank yourself To appreciate and honor yourself To acknowledge the job you’re doing To sit in silence? When is the last time you listened to your soul and...
read moreThe Cure For The Stepmom Blues
It’s the number one treatment for fatigue. It’s the best remedy to improve your quality of life. With this treatment alone, 30% overcome depression. This magic cure will help you sleep better, feel better, help you lose weight, prevent heart disease, and so much more. I dare you to watch this 10 minute video and I’d love to hear from you. What do you think? Can you take this medicine? I want to help you take care of yourself. Set goals. See Results. I want to help you be the best you. I dare you to join my 90 Day Body By Vi...
read moreHow I Became A Savvy Stepmom
Savvy means wise. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience often comes from mistakes and a lot of trial and error. Becoming a savvy stepmom is a lot like learning how to drive a stick shift. Yeah. Have you have just stalled out in the middle of an intersection? How nervous did it make you feel? Stepmomdom can be a little or a lot like that. This week my article, “How I Became A Savvy Stepmom” is posted on The Life Change Network. My friend Gloria Lintermans left a must read comment so you don’t want to miss it! Comments are...
read moreHave You Done Your Will Yet?
Wills? Trusts? Estate-Planning? This is a must read for every StepCouple. Thank you Carrie Collins Fadell for this fabulous and timely guest blog. It could be called the subject that no one wants to talk about, and stepfamily life only makes it more complex. It is the subject of wills, trusts, and estate planning – making your final wishes known. Do you know what your financial tomorrow would look like if your significant other were to pass away today? Would anyone know what your wishes are for your property, pets, and assets if...
read moreLook Great, Feel Great, Lose Weight, Get Fit!
I stopped making New Year Resolutions years ago. As soon as I make them, I break them. Resolutions, in my mind, are too big, too rigid, too heavy. Like once I make a resolution I’m stuck with the pink elephant sitting on my lap. A couple of years ago I adopted a word for the new year ahead. Last year my word was focus. Looking back at 2011, I think I did a fine job of focusing on what I wanted to accomplish so that I wouldn’t go bonkers while my husband was deployed. This year my word is FITNESS Life happens. I got older. I got...
read moreHow to Ditch Fear and Make Each Moment a Fresh Start
I am so excited to introduce you to my friend and Bold, Fearless Living Coach, Tess Marshall! Somebody should tell us…right at the start of our lives…that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ~ Michael Landon You don’t have to wait for a new year, a divorce, a retreat, a seminar, an illness or a disaster to create a new beginning. We always have the option of choosing a fresh start in the present moment. We always...
read moreWhat Do You Do To Find Your Breathing Space?
I’ve had a constant stream of people in and out of my home since Christmas Eve and yes, I’m peopled out. Two words that showed up in my journal last night were Breathing Space. Here I am a certified yoga teacher and I was feeling suffocated in my own home. It happens to the best of us. And so I started thinking. How do I create room to breathe? How do I create the space to step back and take a deep breath? The last time I felt overwhelmed in my own home I noticed the feeling first. I allowed awareness of the feeling to push back...
read more2011 Is In The Rear View Mirror
2012 is HERE! I’m excited. Are you? I’ve read a lot of postings in forums, on twitter, and on facebook, that 2011 was not a great year. I beg to differ. We can either focus on what went wrong or what went right. I prefer to focus on all the good stuff. Before I talk about me, let’s talk about you. I hope you’ll grab your journal and jot down these questions and then spend some time on them. Look for all the good you experienced in 2011. What went right for you in 2011? Did you try something new? Did you fall in...
read moreDo You Subscribe to StepMom Magazine?
Hot off the Internet Press! December’s issue of StepMom Magazine is online and available! If you’re not a subscriber, now is a great time to subscribe. Not only will you receive a full year of monthly issues packed with tips, tools, and advice, but you’ll have access to the past 12 months of issues as well! And that means you’ll have full access to my 12 month series, Remodel Your Life – exclusive only to StepMom Magazine...
read moreHow’s that for Holiday Drama, Llama?
I hope you enjoy this fabulous guest blog by Carrie Collins Fadell! How’s that for Holiday Drama, Llama? Every year, much to dismay of all of the males that I live with, I put up an over-the-top “girly” Christmas tree. I am talking “all purple or pink and silver decorations” girly. Recently, while shopping for holiday decorations that would help me continue my annual holiday pushback against the ESPN zone that my house has become, I came across a table of illustrated children’s books that were for sale in the store. On top...
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