How to Celebrate Mother’s Day When Your Mom has Passed Away

As some of you may know, my mom passed away about four years ago from Cancer. My mom was the best role model, my best friend and best therapist for both my friends and myself. Every year, mother’s day has been a hard day for me and this year, I graduated college and all I wanted was her to be there. This was extremely difficult for, basically for months beforehand and I can imagine this feeling will still be here for awhile. This post itself was even really hard to write, as I probably cried like six times just jotting down notes. I do find this post to be completely necessary because just because your mom has passed away, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t celebrate.

5 Ways to Take Care of Yourself this May for Mental Health Awareness Month

 May celebrates Mental Health Awareness month. There are a lot of ways to celebrate, that involve taking care of you, but the first step in all awareness months, is to be aware and knowledgeable.

So, here is a link from theSkimm to help you learn more about mental health. 

May Mood Board

April Recap
Got to spend Easter in the E.R. with my boyfriend. Tried the HelloFresh box. Went to a Red Sox Game on the 8th as my Valentine’s Day present from my boyfriend, which was an incredible game that we ended up winning.

8 Healthy Desserts to Get You In the Summer Mood

With summer on the way, people are all about the #BBG and the healthy lifestyle. In case you are anything like me and had to Google what #BBG means, it means #BinkiniBodyGuide well at least that’s what my research brought me to!

April Mood

Happy April! I hope you all are finding a way to get through this, what is suppose to feel like spring, cold front. I swear, I saw hail today, in between rain showers. they did say, April showers bring May flowers, so lets hope that these May flowers are damn beautiful, amiright?

Why You Need to be Your Own Best Friend & How To Do So

As I’m currently writing this, I’m sitting with head in a sink at my hair salon. Every time I come to get my hair down, It is my time to actually be able to read my book and put myself in deep thought and reflection. I unfortunately never am able to take the time to read like I would like to, but on this day, every 8 weeks, I get to drink red wine and read my book and maybe take a nap when my Head is in the sink 🙈

Understanding the Instagram Algorithm

So Instagram’s algorithm is always changing and right now there focus is basically bringing down exposure. They are focusing on a whole new world. Fun Fact, it was originally the algorithm with Facebook that changed, but since Facebook owns Instagram, this algorithm changed as well. Thought some of my experience and a lot of research, here is what I have found to help you and help me!

Ulta 21 Days of Beauty Must Haves – Spring 18′ Edition

One of the best beauty events of the year is the spring 21 Days of Beauty by Ulta. In case this is the first time you have heard of this, it is basically 21 days where each day has a new beauty deal on their website. I would also like to note, that by deal, I really mean deal. They are a steal!

Brunching in New Haven

Brunch (n): the socially acceptable excuse for day drinking.

So, I have been on the scour to find you the best places to brunch in New Haven. I have found two that I will now be frequently visiting and I’m not even mad about It.

March Mood

Happy March! I hope you all are staying warm with this snow storm! This March I hope is full of happiness, some Spring weather and some surprises!