• Silohuette woman with beautiful brain

    What Do You Love About the Way You Look Think?

    Iโ€™ve been watching my brain lately… OK, waitโ€ฆ waitโ€ฆ hear me out. I havenโ€™t completely lost it. I know you canโ€™t literally watch a brain like how I watchedโ€”well, serial-inhaledโ€”season 4 of Bridgerton, but honestly, Iโ€™m paying a heck of a lot more attention to my thoughts, and the way they feed into my reactions. And Iโ€™m loving it more and more. Too often before, my brain felt like a noisy, messy roommate that I couldnโ€™t escape while we both worked from homeโ€ฆ at the same companyโ€ฆ on the same project. Now, in Big Age (and with nothing perfect, obviously), my brain is more like an enemies-to-lovers rom-com. Our beef has lessened, we…

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    How To Get What You Want: The Power In Asking

    It’s Time To Say It or Stay Stuck. Though I was never a shy kid, it still didnโ€™t mean that I always asked for what I wanted, at least not up front and clearly. I 100% shook my head and bawled tears in my mumโ€™s kitchen at the myriad of colorful and flavorful foods I refused to eat for no good reason. Yeah, I absolutely did that, but letโ€™s press on, shall we. But when I did ask for what I wanted, it worked out more often than not. Now, with my daughters, I realize what I wish Iโ€™d practiced more myself: always asking. Emphasis on the โ€˜alwaysโ€™. Of getting…