Learning the guilt-free “no”

I was back at obsessing over ever single “imperfection”. I started running myself into the ground (literally). Now, running was even more...

I woke up from my “routine” cosmetic surgery a confident woman…or so I thought. Listen, don’t get me wrong, the new girls looked great!...

I’ve spoken on insecurities before. About how women tend to take the brunt of society’s expectations on physical appearance. How girls...

Friends come and go, but the memories never seem to really fade for me. There are friends that I have had for 30 plus years, and there...

I have been struggling over the past few weeks trying to figure out how to talk openly about something that seems to be kind of...

Everyone knows that when you work out, the more weights you add over time, the stronger you become (and people actually do it for fun......

If you have been following my journey to saying “no”, you should know that it didn’t happen overnight. It took a series of events to land...

I recently started working for RewardStyle /LIKEtoKNOW.it as a side gig to bring in additional income for my family. On there, I will...

Hi, my name is Makensi and I’m an “I’m sorry” over user (maybe there are meetings for this?). Is the word “sorry” overused? In my...

I’m so excited to finally be a memeber of this incredible community! I can’t wait for you all to follow me on this platform where I find...

Post Traumatic Stress; a disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing a terrifying event. I know that there...

Do you ever go upstairs to grab your shoes but see the pile of broken hangers you meant to throw away, so you grab those instead? You go...

Almost 12 years ago I became a mom. It was exactly then, that I learned what happened to all the “mean girls” from high school. They all...

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by a mirror! I sure as hell have been. It doesn’t matter the number on the...

Heart racing, palms sweating, upset stomach, pacing... sound familiar? Anxiety looks different on everyone, and it does not discriminate....

When we were kids we learned early on who we had access to, to befriend. Most of our friends were based off of proximity, because we...

I like to keep it real with mom-hood, so here it goes. We have three incredibly precious kids. All of them are perfectly imperfect. My...

Let’s talk relationships! My husband and I have been together since I was fourteen and he was seventeen, (I know, I know, at that age,...

Ten months. For ten months I have been living out one of my biggest anxiety triggers... health uncertainties. I vividly remember being...

In the past week, I have had two beautifully brilliant friends say to me, “ ‘No’ is a complete sentence” (shout out to Shirley and Krista...