Hello! Welcome to my first blog post. Today, I thought I would take some time to chat about seasonal depression, how it affects me, and what I do to make things a little better.
I was first diagnosed with depression at the ripe old age of 13. I was bullied relentlessly for it because it…
How do you tend to react or respond when someone changes their mind? It could be something as simple as parking your car to go to supper and the person you rode there with suddenly says, “I don’t want to eat here anymore, can we go somewhere else?” Or it could be something as complex…
Do you ever feel like you’re striving for a goal so hard and you are not getting anywhere? It feels like you’re spinning plates, running around, achieving nothing, and then you start to wonder, what the hell is the point? Then you feel like you want to quit everything?! I’ve been there, too.
Working with…
So… I’m pregnant. It’s a big, new adventure, bringing a new human being into this wild world. And it has given me a lot to think about. Just a little about me for those of you who are new here, or haven’t had the opportunity to meet me. I will have owned Enlightened Beauty for…
Let me just start out by saying, “Holy $#!?”....
These first few weeks of 2025 have been stressful, confusing, triggering, and exhausting, as well as, uplifting, loving, vulnerable, and hopeful.
What I’ve learned and continue to learn to accept, is that love cannot exist without fear, just as fear cannot exist without love. It’s in…
Starting the New Year off, a lot of us have big ideas for our New Year’s resolutions. For some of us it’s a commitment to ourselves to work out, eat better, drink more water, or to get better sleep. For others it can be to improve their relationships with their friends and family. Some of…
This month I have been reflecting a lot on grief and love. The two go hand in hand after all, as I was reminded by my younger sister a few days ago. Grief is simply defined as change.
When things change, our hearts, minds, and souls need to process and grieve what we have lost.…
This month we got the news that shook us up.
Now, I’m not one to talk politics, really ever, if I’m being totally honest. I’ve been very sad about how the parties have been acting for the past few elections and the way we have gotten away from taking care of the people of America.…
In a world where “self-care” is a buzzword, we are constantly hearing what self-care “should look like”. Being a part of the beauty industry, we hear all the time that self care has to be something to physically do. For some of our guests, this is true! We hear that the facial treatment, pedicure, or scalp facial…
It's no secret that your skin is the largest organ you have. It's entire function is to protect your body from external factors like bacteria, harmful chemicals, and temperature fluctuation. It does an incredible job at doing those things, but that means it really takes the heat to keep the rest of your body healthy;…
