I am doing a Cookie-Thon for a charity event with Skip1 to raise money for schools around the world and feeding programs here in the US! I was asked to participate in sharing a recipe for the holidays and since I’m spending some time with my parents in Virginia, I decided to pull out my Grandma’s old cook book and find something old school to bake! I flipped to the cookie page and saw “Cream Cheese Cookies.” I thought, hell yeah.

My first Christmas away from home, I was 23, living in Japan at the time. It was an opportunity to spend the Holidays in a totally new way. So if you’re finding yourself in a similar circumstance, I wrote this blog for you, and have some pretty awesome suggestions if I don’t say so myself!

If you know me, you know I’m a bargain buster, sale seeker and overall thrifty shopper when I can be. When it comes to Black Friday, I consider myself a bench warmer because I do all my shopping from my couch. I actually think Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the perfect times to fill in the pieces you’ve been needing in your fall/winter wardrobe, and get ahead of your Christmas shopping while simultaneously saving money.

All of my relationships have left me better than they found me. Even the biggest heart breaks and lapses in loyalty from previous partners have taught me lessons on self worth. But this most recent break up left me wondering what my takeaway would be, because it wasn't blatantly obvious off the bat.

Our relationships with ourselves take just as much nurturing as any other relationship in our lives. I’m so excited to share my four favorite tools I use for deepening self-love and feeling more strength within.

The past two years have been tough ones. Every time I felt like I hit rock bottom, I realized I still had further to fall, and before long I was deep within my own trenches. I made some decisions that got me there, along with unforeseen life events, and of course an unpredictable global pandemic.

For my first blog post, I wanted to give you guys a bit of my back story. Who I believe I am and how I became this version of me. The first few of these I want to share some true insight to who I am.