Empowerment: 3 Ways to Embrace Your Imperfectionsmy world • Leaving a Legacy • lifestyle • health-wellness
Empowerment—During the summer I find myself checking the mirror for imperfections on a daily basis. Taking the kids to the pool. Wearing a bikini (gasp). Why is it I see only the flaws? Nothing is perfect. But what if I embraced imperfection instead of obsessing over it? This same…
The Girl Effect: Helping to Change the Lives of Adolescent Girls Part 2giving back • my world • global causes • bettering communities
“The Girl Effect is the unique potential of 250 million adolescent girls in the developing world to end poverty for themselves and the world.” (Source: Julie Addicott, the Nike Foundation). This excerpt comes from an interview with Julie Addicott, the Communications Specialist from the Nike Foundation. I had the privilege…
Change: Adapting When Life Doesn’t Go As PlannedThere are times in life when things happen much differently than you had planned. I know a girl who had her life all mapped out. She envisioned a career, then meeting a solid man and getting married by 30, traveling with her husband, before having kids at 35. It was…
Green Living: Tips to Being More Environmentally Friendly This Weekmy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week's Season of Service challenge involves serving through taking care of the environment. This is inspired by sponsor Seventh Generation's Planet Home, a book that shares ways to clean and maintain a home in a natural, nontoxic way so as to have an impact on our health and…
Serve Those in Foreign Countriesmy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week's Season of Service challenge is inspired by Macy's Heart of Haiti project, which features Haitian artists selling their artwork through Macy’s stores and website, enabling them to earn sustainable income. Macy's is a big corporation that has made a partnership to help those on foreign soil and remind…
