Looking Ahead With Lauren: Let’s Feel Passionate About Ourselves This Year

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Recently I read this blog from Kris Carr, wellness warrior and health advocate. I love her enthusiasm for health and life and recently devoured the book “Crazy Sexy Diet”. Her article uncovers the myth that your passion should be your job, career or even hobby. (Read it here!) She says your passion should be your [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: My 2013 Resolutions

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Whether you keep writing 2012 on everything for the next few weeks, 2013 is really upon us. That means the gyms will be crowding with people and everyone jumps on the New Years resolution bandwagon. I’m no different! Here are my continuing goals from 2012… 1. Work out 5-6 days a week! Some weeks my [...]

Looking Ahead with Lauren: How to Nurture Your Relationships

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Relationships are not always easy. We all have many different types of relationships and people in our lives. We may have parents, grandparents, siblings, extended family, significant other or spouse, friends, best friends, co-workers, etc. I’ve always had an easy time making friends and enjoy the company of lots of different types of people. I [...]

Feed Your Goddess: Gift Yourself a Day of DIY Luxury

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It isn’t a shock that December can be one of the most stressful months of the year. You have shopping, decorating, wrapping, baking and errands galore! You might feel like there isn’t any time to relax. This year, gift yourself a day of luxury with at home spa treatments you can make yourself or buy [...]

Get Pinning for Clever, Heartfelt and Inexpensive Gifts This Year

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To me, there is nothing like receiving a gift where someone put a lot of thought and effort into it. Instead of wandering into the nearest Target and picking up a gift set of different shower gels, isn’t it better when someone takes the time to make you something beautiful? I’m not saying buying gifts don’t require [...]

Feed Your Goddess This Month with Courage, Confidence, and Compassion

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Let us help you get ready for 2013 with inspirational challenges of all kinds for December! We will be posting daily challenges this month with simple ways to  help you feel happier and healthier from now until New Years. We will be posting here and on Facebook, so please join us on our Facebook page if [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: My Favorite Yoga Poses

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Yoga is a great stress reliever. For me, it is a great way to take myself away from my computer and work and take a break and release some of that tension that builds up over the week. Today I will share with you some of my favorite yoga poses and why I love them. [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: The No Junk Food Challenge

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Anyone else have a enormous sweet tooth? I sure do! It has been especially active since Halloween when there are goodies and treats everywhere, not to mention I’ve been baking a ton for various occasions. So I decided I need to give myself a challenge! I found this on Pinterest (of course) and though it [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Change is Hard!

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I don’t know about you, but I grew up with the mantra, “If you eat your vegetables, you get dessert!” I often feel as if I deserve a dessert after every meal. It is a funny thing… thinking you deserve all of that sweet sugary sabotage after you eat a healthy (or even worse, unhealthy) [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Natural Ways to Heal Yourself

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I don’t know about you, but at the first sign of a cold I tend to take loads of cold medicine and cough drops and power through my day. But is that really the best for your body? Sure, it helps you feel better (sometimes) but what if you let your body heal itself first and [...]