Advent Calendar Blog 2025 – Three Wins
What if, instead of adopting new year resolutions, you chose wins this year? Not big, dramatic ones and not the kind that require willpower, perfection, or reinvention.
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Advent Calendar Blog 2025 — The Courage To See it Through
So I’m sharing this not because it’s easy, but because it’s true: fresh beginnings don’t always look like grand reinventions. Sometimes they begin with a move, a box, a moment of clarity. Sometimes they begin with grief giving way to readiness.
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Advent Calendar Blog 2025 – Finding Yourself by Doing
To choose something that feels like a spark of who we’re becoming.
These small acts—simple, seasonal, imperfect—have a way of revealing truths we didn’t know we were seeking. Action shows us what lights us up, what expands us, and what feels like a gentle “yes” inside our spirit.
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The Transformative Power of Journaling: Why Putting Pen to Paper Matters
In a fast-paced world filled with constant noise and distractions, finding moments of clarity and reflection can seem like a luxury. While traditional meditation is the typical go-to reset activity for quieting mind and focusing on the breath, I would like you to consider journaling. Journaling allows you to achieve a similar state of mindfulness…
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Vivi Vibes
Self-Care Strategies for Beating the Winter Blues” Hi everyone! I hope everyone made it through the January blues and is ready for more daylight at the end of our days. Just in time for a month of self-love. Did you know January is known for being a depressing month? It’s actually attributable to a perfect…
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February Self-Love Challenge Starts Now!
Here it is folks, my February Self-Love Challenge! February is an excellent opportunity to focus on self-love and self-care. In recent years, there has indeed been such growing movement towards redefining Valentine’s Day as a day to celebrate all forms of love, including love for oneself. It represents a cultural shift towards valuing self-love, self-care,…
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Vivi Vibes
Hello everyone! I am so happy to be writing to you so soon with another issue of Vivi Vibes, the e-newsletter meant to keep you informed in positivity and soaring with good vibes. This issue focuses on feeling good – about who you are and what you do – starting with a short quizz to…
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Building Resilience: Strategies to Take Charge of Your Mental Well-being.
I am a pretty self-motivated individual and rarely need much encouragement to get through my to-do list. Every once in a while, however, I lose my way. I know the signs: my energy is low, I don’t leave my bedroom, and I feel overwhelmed. I tuck away in my safe hideaway, and typically spend hours…
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Are New Year resolutions due for a refresh?
As far as old traditions go, perhaps New Year’s resolutions could benefit from a fresh perspective. Instead of goals focused on unrealistic expectations and lack of preparation, perhaps it’s time to consider “adaptable intentions” that foster continuous growth throughout the year. (That sounds a lot like a self-directed personal development plan to me, no?) I…
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Advent Calendar 2023 – Unmasking The Silent Saboteurs
“A day without joy is like a canvas without color, a melody without harmony. It lacks the vibrancy that makes life’s moments truly resonate, leaving a void where the magic of happiness and fulfillment should have painted the hours with vibrant hues.” – unknown While it is technically possible for someone to exist without experiencing…
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Advent Calendar 2023 – Joy Is My Therapy
Having very recently lost my husband, I live with my grief everyday, but I take much comfort in the fact that I was blessed to have 40 years with a man who made me laugh everyday, who inspired me, and supported me through all those years. We talked about him leaving before me, and clearly,…
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Advent Calendar 2023 – Seasonal Joy
At the beginning of every season, there’s a unique feeling that comes over me, which I affectionally refer to as Seasonal joy. It’s a specific feeling of happiness and contentment that encompasses a combination of childhood memories, traditions, and sensory elements associated with each season. For example, the snow melt in the spring triggers memories…
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Advent Calendar 2023 – Not Feeling Joy
Let’s be real. We’ve all had some days when we’re “ not feeling it” and being joyful is a stretch. We all get in a bit of a rut now and then. Usually, we can pull out of one with a little self-care. Anything longer than two weeks and you might want to check in…
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Advent Calendar Blog 2022 – That’s A Wrap
Has it already been twenty-four days since I started on this year’s Advent Calendar Blog? I intended the topic for 2022 to be a reflection on change, and how to face it with courage and dignity, whether it was brought in intentionally or not into our life, yet it seems there were a few other…
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Advent Calendar Blog 2022 – Grounding in Times of Stress
The energy around me is shifting and unsettled today. There is the usual frenzy out there as the final preparations for Christmas have kicked in, and millions of people across the planet are moving in planes, trains and automobiles to be reunited with loved ones. But the intensity has been kicked up a notch now…
