This is not a sponsored or promoted post, all thoughts are my own. 🙂 Exactly one week ago I received my premium essential oil kit from Young Living Essential Oils, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. As you know, I have been embarking on a number of new journeys and experiences this year and …
So far in 2017 I’ve done quite a bit of brainstorming about where I want my blog to go in 2017. As you’ve seen this week, one of my main goals was to expand my content to include videos on my YouTube channel. Throughout my blogging career, I’ve learned that taking creative risks is one …
I’ve had so much fun making more media content this year! Today we went to a beautiful beach where I actually stepped in the ocean! (For those of you who don’t know, I’m not the biggest fan of water). The water was quite cold, but the views were breathtaking! I hope you’ve been enjoying these …
I’ve been meaning to write this post for quite a while, and as I was thinking through my blogging goals for 2017 I realized how much I have learned in my time of blogging that I would have loved to have known when I first started out. Being a new blogger can be quite overwhelming, …
I am officially on my Winter Break, and am in the process of organizing after my finals week. During finals week and many other busy weeks during the semester I saved many of my files in the wrong folders on accident, and saved lots of blog images to my desktop so that I could find …
Winter has officially arrived (the snow is falling as I type this), and with it the woes of winter skin. Many of you probably know that I’m a little bit obsessed with skincare, because when my skin is healthy I feel amazing all around! There are small, everyday things that I do to keep my skin healthy …
When I was younger, creativity was a natural part of my life. I loved to read, write, draw, and imagine. It was a natural extension of my true self, and how I spent much of my time. As I got older, this creativity got replaced with obligations and other interests and started to lose its second …
As the semester comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the transformative experience that it has been. This semester has definitely been the busiest academic semester that I have had thus far, but also one of the most rewarding. Many of people have asked me how I manage to blog in addition to my …
Being in college has taught me a lot about stress–more specifically, how to handle stress. I was originally going to post about the Winter Waltz that is put on by my college, but as I was at Waltz I kept thinking about how the ways I face stress have changed. With finals coming up, I …
As I drove past crop fields and rolling hills in the Iowa countryside, my thoughts drifted to how I started my vegan journey and found this calling. Within the past year I have experienced the ups and downs of a vegan lifestyle, especially with how it fits in a college setting. It was a steep …
