The 4 Comfort Foods That Saved My Life This Past Year

With the end of 2020. approaching, I’ve been reflecting on the foods that have satisfied both my tummy and my heart during the tumultuousness (to put it lightly) of this past year. Good food and good friends can be really stabilizing, so I’m sharing one of those things here; an homage to the comfort foods that got me through this year.

Forget Self-Care, Try Self-Parenting

As much as I try to take care of myself in a loving way- to set up My Future Self for success- if I’m being honest, most of my self-care strategies end up feeling pretty adversarial- like I’m just trying to trick my future self into making good decisions.

So it got me thinking; what if instead of casting myself in the role of Permanently Failing Adult, I could think of myself more as a kind, responsible parent to my own inner child?

Setting Healthy Boundaries

If self-care was the buzzword for 2019, then boundaries is the official word of 2020.

With life, work and play all under one roof now, we’ve all had to take a crash-course in understanding what we need, what’s okay, and what really just doesn’t work for us.

Here are some of the top things I’ve learned to set boundaries around this year.

Implement These 4 Simple Lifestyle Tips to Finally Feel Like You “Have it All Together”

Growing up, my parents used to say: “the best time to learn something was 5 years ago. The second best time is right now.”

It used to annoy me to no end, because at 16 I just wanted results ASAP. Duh. But as I get older, I realize that each and every new day poses an opportunity to grow, learn and change our lives for the better.

Here are 4 simple- but powerful- lifestyle tips I’ve implemented on my 28th trip around the sun, that help me feel like I “finally have it all together.”