Hi! We’re Nat and Holly, the creative sister duo from My Sister’s Suitcase. We’re excited to be here today sharing one of our favorite printables with you. Any fans of The Office out there? It’s not quite what you think! We are both doing Project Life this year. Have no idea what Project Life is? Basically, it’s a scrapbooking at the simplest level. Simple is good for busy moms and wives!...
Even so, I can’t stand it. There’s no good reason for my annoyance, but there it is every morning, as dependable as the sunrise and my daughters’ hunger rages if I don’t put enough food in their lunch bags. And then one morning a thought suddenly popped into my mind, emerging unbidden through the cloud of crankiness. I am so lucky. Within seconds, those four words bloomed throughout my awareness, and all I could think about was how lucky I am....
I LOVE funky socks. I’ve got all colors, styles, lengths, fabrics and more. On Thursday, my husband Mike invited me to a date that would ‘Knock My Socks Off.’ When Saturday came around he handed me a bundle of brand new, funky, and totally awesome socks. There were five of them. He said there would be five parts to our date and each sock corresponded with what we would do....
2020 has been a big year for all of us. Whether you’re looking to embrace difficult emotions, strengthen your concentration or feel more connected to others, you’ll find our most popular meditations here. The Most Popular Meditations of 2020 1. A 10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation In this practice, Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein bring our awareness to the breath as an anchor to the present moment. Breathing practice can help cultivate self-love and compassion in accepting things the way they are....
In this 5-minute video, Braincraft host Vanessa Hill dips into psychology research to highlight the factors that impact our choices. Here are three reasons we make the wrong decisions, and the solutions to take your decision-making confidence to the next level: 1. You choose something you’ve already invested in, even if it’s not the best option “We like to think that we always make rational decisions, but science shows that’s not always the case,” Hill explains....
Date Night Invite There’s no better way to get your time capsule date night started than with our first printable…the invite! We created this cute card to let your spouse know you’ve got something fun coming their way! All you have to do is print out the time capsule invite, cut it out, fill in the date and time, and surprise your spouse! Super simple, right?! (Tip: we recommend using a thicker paper like this cardstock for all the printables!...
Since touching each other brings a multitude of emotional, physical, and social health benefits you’d think we’d be cuddling all the time. Yet our culture is touch-deprived. One study noted that dining companions in France touched each other an average of 110 times during the meal, but Americans only twice. The next time you are someplace romantic, notice how few people are holding hands. My friend says he wishes I’d never pointed this out to him....
This super-polished updo with bow is a prime example of the kind of easy glam that can work with any holiday occasion across the board. It’s a style that’s both quirky and elegant, and will keep you looking on-point at family get-togethers, office parties and even the NYE ball drop—as nothing gets in the way of that midnight kiss! Scroll down for an insanely quick how-to: Tutorial: Polished Updo with Bow Step 1: Start with clean, freshly washed hair....
A 12-Minute Meditation on the BASICS of Mindful Eating B – Breathe and belly check for hunger and satiety before you eat Take a few deep breaths and relax the body. As you’re doing this, check in with your belly. Are there sensations of physical hunger? How hungry are you? What are you hungry for? You might want food. You might be thirsty. You might be hungry for something entirely different than food....
Washing Hair Rituals from Around the World Ethiopia Hair Washing Rituals For centuries, many women from Ethiopia have loved using actual butter on their hair and scalp as one of their hair washing rituals. While some women still swear by this today, many people have transitioned into using popular nourishing ingredients for your hair, like coconut oil. Many people apply the oil directly to their scalp and hair, let it sit like a mask and then rinse it out....
What is a Hair Mask? A hair mask is a deep conditioning treatment for your hair. When used properly, it works to restore moisture back into your strands. It can also strengthen your hair and help to smoothen frizz. Used in addition to your wash and care regimen, it can work to repair past damage as it moisturizes–all while preventing future hair challenges. It’s one of those additions to your self care routines that feels luxurious while actually benefitting you at the same time....
Aside from the obvious romantic benefits, here are some more health benefits to sexercising. Helps manage stress.Boosts immunity.Raises self-esteem.Improves emotional health of your relationship.Promotes better sleep.Increases endurance and strength. We’ve created a fitness sex date that gives you all these benefits AND MORE! It includes exercises for… Better sex!Fun exercises you do while stripping naked.And exercise ideas that help strengthen the muscles that help you have better sex. So, what are you waiting for?...
“We act like wind-up toys, repeatedly bumping into the same walls, never realizing there may be an open door just to our left or our right,” writes Susan David, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, in Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. Her book is a guide to life’s trickiest emotions: not how to avoid them but how to learn to move through them....
In one sense, a retreat is a laboratory for creating the conditions most conducive to meditation. It’s also a microcosm of life itself, a chance to observe deeply how things drift in and out of discord, regardless of how much effort we’ve put into creating an ideal environment. In the quietest place on Earth, a feather dropping can ring out like a gunshot. A minor ache, likewise, can scream like a broken limb....
While most of the psychological literature has painted such mind wandering as a detrimental “failure of executive control” or a “dysfunctional cognitive state,” a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there’s no harm in allowing the mind to wander. The first-of-its-kind study showed that, when performing a task that didn’t demand constant attention, people were able to strategically allow their minds to wander without an impact on task performance....
Why You Should Consider Hair Perfume There are a number of benefits you can expect from an effective hair perfume and the best of the best will offer them all. Firstly and most obviously is scent. Hair perfume comes in a range of scents and covers everything from sweet and flirty options to heavier and muskier scents. Traditionally feminine options, classically masculine, and unisex scents for those looking for something in between....
Don’t let Winter dryness keep you from creating a sexy, wavy look! Read on to learn just how easy it is to create this hairstyle: Create Sultry Winter Waves in a Flash Create Your Loose Waves The first step in creating Winter waves is to, yes, create the waves! (You saw this coming.) To do this, it’s crucial that you start with a heat protectant. Hot tools can be incredibly damaging to stands, especially when it’s cold out and your hair is less hydrated....
Today the daughters of these runaway moms, having arrived at the shores of middle age, are taking flight, too. But they’re not, by and large, dumping their husbands. They’re not looking to the job market with expectations of liberation. Instead, they’re fleeing to yoga, imitating flight in the downward-gazing contortion called the crow position. They’re striving, through exquisite new adventures in internal fine-tuning, to feel more deeply, live more meaningfully, better inhabit each and every moment of each and every day and attain “a more superior, evolved state of being,” as Claire Dederer puts it in her just-published book, “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,” the latest installment in the burgeoning literature of postboomer-female midlife crisis....
What makes this post most interesting is that they followed up their report with these last two lines: “So! Next time you are in pain, try out a swear or two, like “the s-word” or “the f-word.” And if that doesn’t work, just meditate.” They then linked out to another story they’d written about a study about how meditation can be more effective than morphine. Read Mind over Pain, our news item about sensitivity to pain and meditation....
