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Can You Decide To Be Happy? 

I often call Penn my ‘golden retriever.’ Even on his worst days, he will find something to laugh about and find bits of joy in the madness of our day to day life. Me? Well, that’s entirely different. As I…

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Reframing Our Thoughts To Gratitude 

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I have been thinking about thankfulness and gratitude. It seems like there’s a social trend of “if you can just be positive enough then everything is fine.” I don’t really buy into that concept, but…

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Marriage

Treat Your Partner Like A Stranger

Penn and I have been married for 16 years, so we’ve gotten real comfortable with each other. (Like he sees me in 20-year-old sweatpants and still thinks I’m hot.) We have gotten so comfortable, in fact, that one day while…

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Have You Hit A Wall? Me Too.

I’ve hit a wall. The emotional kind, and also a LITERAL WALL. We’re closing in on the one year anniversary of needing “two weeks to flatten the curve.” My soul is done. I have pandemic fatigue. I want vacations and…

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Wellness

15 Simple Mental Health Rituals

Our mental health is like a plant. It needs constant care and attention. But unlike all those fiddle leaf fig trees we lost in 2016 (RIP), when we put in the time, it actually reciprocates. As someone who deals with…

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Wellness

10 Tips for More Productive Mornings

Who are these “morning people” anyway? Me, I have two morning modes: Warrior and Sloth. Tracy Flick versus Garfield. On those Warrior mornings, I’ve had a good night’s rest, my hair gets washed and I’m practically daring the universe to…

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Wellness

Practicing Gratitude, Even When It’s Hard

If 2020 had a theme song, it would be the one from Tubthumping “I Get Knocked Down.” You know the one …”I get knocked down.. But I get up again..” But if there’s one lesson to be gleaned from all…

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