The Stories
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Christmas Expectations
As Christmas approaches faster than ever this year, I am feeling more and more anxiety, stress, guilt and almost ripped off. I decided a couple of days ago to really dig deep into my soul and ask myself, why am I feeling so much angst this year? Anyone...
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How I Turned Grief into Giving Back
Let me give you the back story on how this whole concept came to be. My husband, my 18-month-old daughter and I moved to Spokane 15 years ago, we only knew two people in the whole area, so it was a big change for our family. Not long after we moved, my...
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Ignorance and Noise Cancelling Headphones
Like most people today, the Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in me working from home. The first few days of my new work environment were overwhelming. I had to figure out a work schedule that allowed me to take care of my kids full-time while my husband was at his...
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SIMPLE TRUTH: Parenting is Hard.
Everyday is a choice. It’s a choice to have the long conversation as to why squishing a bug on the sidewalk because it’s “ugly” isn’t cool. The human race, like most species originated with one prerogative, survival. We developed rules and committed to these rules as...
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This is a story about communication and misperception.
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” -Anthony Robbins This is a story about communication and misperception. Last year I had the...
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What is a TruBeauty Woman?
At the beginning of the global beauty industry, iconic entrepreneurial women such as Estee Lauder and Mary Kay developed the largest cosmetic and skin care firms in the United States and around the globe from scratch. This took a lot of determination, strength,...
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True Beauty
There is so much attention on looking young and being beautiful that so many people, women especially go to great lengths to appear beautiful in the world’s eyes. The problem with that is that the world doesn’t care about what is on the inside, so girls start...
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Loving the Unlovable
I want to start this out by asking you if you love yourself? Do you believe the LIE that you are unlovable? How can we love others if we don’t even love ourselves? If you feel like you don’t love yourself then that is going to be your first step. You may need to take...
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