Blog – Tagged "Self Care" – Page 2

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Alayne's 11 Favorite Lifestyle Things

As I am redoing my space to get it ready for offering it as retreat and event space, I have been thinking about the items I just love so much. Beau...

Shopping for Dresses

When summer happens, I am either in beach attire or summer dresses. Besides workout clothes, summer dresses are my love. From the dreary dark winte...

Staying Skinsane

Are you in a skin rut? Are you bored with your routine? I have a routine that I love, but sometimes I get bored. Not bored because I am not seeing ...

Skin Cancer Is No Joke

I have made almost a career of going to the beach. Never being one for staying out of the sun, I am a die hard beach lover. Though for the past fif...

Grief and Loss

There is no time limit on grief. These words came to me on my 31st birthday four months after my 25 year old brother had died from cancer. My belo...

How To Correct Mask Face

Masks have come off. Our skin can finally breathe and so can we. What I am seeing is two years of mask face, though— clogging, blemishes, redness. ...

Gardening Delight

As soon as the first sighting of a bright red cardinal shows up in my line of vision in the tree in my backyard, I am ready for some seed planting....

I Wrote A Book

There I said it. Let me say it again. I wrote a book. I am proud of this accomplishment. I will squelch the little voice inside that wants to take ...

Self Care (Again)

If anyone understands self-care, it is me. I have no excuse to do anything other than self-care these days. I am mostly an empty nester; I mostly l...

Alayne's Favorite Places

With so much isolation from this damn virus, I wanted to reflect back a bit to places I supported this past 2021. In my attempt to have experiences...

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Who is Your Wonder Woman?

Why Wonder Woman? After receiving endless quantities of Wonder Woman swag during my cancer diagnosis in 2017, I became a bit hooked on this Super (...

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The Evolution of Shopping

In this wild world of shopping these days, I find myself reflecting back to the good old days. Do you remember when holiday shopping was a lovely r...