There Is Nothing Wrong With You

"There is nothing wrong with you" - is what I wish someone would have said to me when I was young and struggling with my mental health/anxiety.   “ Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. “ -mentalhealth.gov I found this quote while writing a blog about combating stress for one of my clients, and I thought…

To Whom It May Concern

To Whom It May Concern

To Whom It May Concern, This is a letter to me, but also to you, because if you’re reading it then lets just assume you need to hear it too. Everything is going to work out the way it is supposed to, what is for you will never miss you. It will always find it’s way to you. It may be right in front of your nose. The thing you want is already there, it already exists out there, just…

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How I Stopped Letting Anxiety Keep Me Up At Night

“Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. “ mentalhealth.gov Understanding my own mental health has become almost an obsession of mine. Especially since I realized that understanding it enabled me to have more of a choice in how I approach and react to life. It is something I am very passionate about sharing with people! So today,…

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Why Is It So Hard To Take Our Own Advice?

Location: Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa At Montelucia It’s no secret that I love giving advice (Hence, the creation of Life Off The Reel). I get a thrill out of successfully overcoming emotional hurdles and sharing how I did it. I love listening to other people’s problems, talking through them and helping them figure out how to overcome them. I’m not sure why, maybe I should have been a psychologist? Maybe I’ll end up being some sort of coach some…

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My Favorite Serums & Moisturizers

I've always been good about taking care of my skin, washing off my makeup before I go to bed, using moisturizer - super basic stuff. Now that I'm 25 and super mature I started reading a bunch of stuff that freaked me out and said your face starts seriously aging in your mid-twenties. I realized I had to start getting a bit more serious about my skin if I want to maintain it. Hence, my recent obsession with serums. According…

Settle In

You Can Settle In Without Settling

You know that feeling that pit in your stomach feeling, when you look around and your life doesn’t look the way you want it to. You want more, you know you’re capable of more, you deserve better, but you look around and life just isn’t what you want it to be. You refuse to settle for this life. You’re so determined to get to where you want to go, that where you’re at almost drains you. You can’t enjoy the…

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My Number One Health, Beauty And Life Tip

Water seems like a silly topic to dedicate an entire post to, but I have wanted to talk about it because it is honestly my NUMBER ONE health, beauty, and just life in general tip. No beauty product in the world, in my opinion, outweighs the benefits of drinking a ton of water. For as long as I can remember I’ve literally had a water bottle glued to my hand – in every meeting, in every coffee shop, with every…

Dear Dad

Dear Dad, Thank You

It is funny when you grow up a bit and start to notice all the ways your parents shaped you. I got really lucky, not the kind of lucky where everything was perfect and dandy. The kind of lucky where the really hard shit in life, ended up being the greatest blessing in the world. Well, today is the day we celebrate the birthday of the greatest blessing of my entire life - my dad. Dear Dad, My first job…

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