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Dec302024

Saying Goodbye is not Easy

After many years of sharing wellness tips, life inspiration and mindful practices through my monthly newsletter/blog, it is time for me to say goodbye to this chapter. This decision was not an easy one, as my shared words and thoughts have been a labor of love and fueled by connections I have built. Your support,…

Dec12024

Have you ever hit a fork in the road?

When a fork in the road of life happens, a decision must be made on which path appears best to take. Often our first reaction is, “why now?”, when a fork does rear its opportunistic head. I recently had that “why now” moment and have been toggling back and forth on which direction to go. …

Nov12024

Change is Hard, Staying the Same is Hard….. What “Hard” Do YOU Choose?

Choosing your “hard” needs to align with your core values and personal goals. It takes focused time and mindfulness to fully realize what you need your “hard” to be. Here are a few suggestions that might help you in choosing your “hard”: PURPOSE: What will change or staying the same result in and bring you in your life? Will…

Oct12024

Mental Health is a Right

Each of us is deserving of mental health. October 10th is World Mental Health Day. What do you do to ensure your mental health is at its optimal? The power of self-compassion can be a start. When we come to terms with our challenges in life and decide a path of gentleness, positive effects can…

Sep12024

New Possibilities are Possible

Do you feel stuck or trapped in your day to day world? Is there something or someone you wish for? Are you truly living your dreams? Your life is full of new POSSIBILITIES. How do you open your eyes and heart to these new opportunities while getting closer to fulfilling your personal POSSIBILITIES & dreams? I…

Aug12024

You Are & Feel What You Eat: Transform Your Eating Habits for a Better Life

The saying “you are what you eat” holds a lot of truth. The foods we consume significantly impact our health, energy levels, and overall well-being. Let’s explore how adopting healthier eating habits can transform your life, starting with the way you plan, shop, cook, and experience enjoyment with your meals. Meal Plan Planning your meals…

Jul12024

Cultivating a Mindset for a Fulfilling Life: Harnessing the Power of RAIN

Mindset is the foundation upon which we build our experiences in life. The way we allow our mind to perceive the world around us directly influences our daily interactions, our long-term goals, and our overall happiness. If you feel you cannot control your mind, it’s time to change that belief. You have the power, energy,…

Jun12024

You Haven’t Eaten if You Haven’t Chewed: A Deeper Look at Conscious Eating

In our fast-paced world, we often find ourselves eating on the go, multi-tasking during meals, or simply rushing through our food without giving much thought to the process. However, as Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Peter Attia would agree, true nourishment goes beyond the simple act of consuming food. If you haven’t chewed your food…

May12024

What Are Your Fears and Doubts?

My biggest fear is a giant snake; actually, my biggest fear is a snake of any size. Ironically, I now live in SC where snakes are fully present and alive. Although I fear snakes, I love SC and plan to stay. Let’s explore fears and self-doubts. Where do our fears or doubts come from? I…

Apr12024

Potential, Possibilities, & Capacity

How would you rate your life today on a scale of 1-10? #7 is not allowed because it’s the easy go-to. Close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths, and rate! Now open your eyes and let’s take a journey! Whatever your rate is, let’s dial it back and imagine it to be a…

Mar12024

SELF-DISCOVERY JOURNEY – YAMAS & NIYAMAS

As spring unfolds its vibrant tapestry, we stand at the threshold of new beginnings. It’s a time of transition, where the old makes way for the new, and the dormant earth awakens to the promise of fresh life and growth. In the gentle warmth of the sun and the tender whispers of budding flowers, we…

Feb12024

HAVE YOU EVER FELT MISUNDERSTOOD?

Have you ever felt misunderstood? Well, I have. When a person creates a story in their head about you or an event, it’s next to impossible to change how that story plays out for another. This tale may get repeated, embellished, and further enhanced with others’ imaginations and assumptions. All the explaining in the world…

Jan22024

REFLECTION

Congratulations, YOU have achieved another year! Each new year presents opportunity. Our society is wired to create outlandish goals and New Year’s resolutions at the start of each new year. How about throwing that out the window and consider reflection? Reflect on how far you have come, grown, and evolved over the past year. Instead…

Dec12023

SHOWING UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS

How are you going to show up for the holidays? When you show up, how can you survive the season upon us? This upcoming month can be a lot, or maybe not. Each of us has the freedom to show up however we choose for our family, friends, and most importantly, ourselves during the next…

Nov12023

WORLD KINDNESS DAY

How can your simple act of kindness towards someone or something affect the world? The iconic quote: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle,” truly made me stop and think. I do believe the world could use a little more kindness today more than ever. I was honored to hear…

Oct12023

Food is You

Food supports how one thinks, feels, moves, looks, and even behaves. What I ingest might even drive how my day goes and can definitely affect my night’s rest. I believe that eating food in moderation and intuitively serves me best. Food is for the nutrition of my mind, body, and soul. If you know…

Jun12023

Summer Siesta

Do you need a Summer siesta? I do! I will be taking a blog writing break to work on a special project. Sometimes taking a pause from routine is good for the soul and creates space for new things or simply renewal. During this pause, I would love to hear from you about what…

May12023

What is your non-negotiable?

Where do you stand with a firm “yes” in your world? What does it mean to consider something non-negotiable? In my world, non-negotiable means nothing or no one gets in the way. It is that thing I strongly believe in and prioritize in my life. What is your most non-negotiable, best-serving action or intention…

Apr12023

Just Say No

Just Say NO…Create Room for an Authentic YES! Are you innately a people pleaser? We all are to some degree. Do you say YES just because you feel you need to? It can be empowering to learn how to say NO gracefully and with gratitude for the request. That involves the big B word……

Mar12023

Dare to be #1

I dare you to put yourself #1 on your list of life. When you do, your best life is just around the corner. If you already are #1 in your life, good for you and keep up the amazing focus and dedication. If you are not, what is holding you back? Our society is brainwashed…

Feb12023

Practice Pause

What does it mean to practice pause? How often do you pause? One of my favorite yoga teachers reminded me about the power of taking a pause. Such a simple concept one might presume; however, how often do I truly pause? It made me stop and honestly reflect on what a pause needs to…

Jan12023

Own Your Purpose

What is your purpose in life? As a year ends, I am given the gift of a new year, or what I like to call, “A Chance at a Fresh Beginning.” I see each January as an opportunity to reflect on the last 12 months, both personally and professionally. I ask myself, “What did I…

Dec12022

Breaking Traditions

Rituals and traditions can provide a sense of comfort, but is doing the same thing really giving you the opportunity to grow and evolve or simply stay comfortable? I have used rituals during the holidays and certain times of the year in the past when life was too challenging or difficult to see beyond. I…

Nov12022

Gratitude is the Spark to Happiness

How are you as an adult with your practice of gratitude, of saying thank you to yourself and all that you have surrounding you? As a small child, most of us were encouraged to say our pleases and thank-yous. I know as a mother, manners were a priority for me while raising my children. As…

Oct12022

Transitions in Life

Do transitions excite you or send you spiraling? Some transitions or changes in life are sudden, unexpected, quick, last way too long, whether planned or unplanned. Regardless, how do you manage transition? This is a time of seasonal transition with days getting shorter and a little more darkness. Do you choose to see this…

Sep12022

Do You Need To Die A Little?

What does it mean to die a little? You, like me, could benefit from a check-in from time to time. Does the way you live, think, believe, and behave support feeling the best you can physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? I recently went to an enriching yoga retreat with my daughter. Cristiane, our yoga instructor…

Aug12022

Faith or Fear?

Do you live in faith or fear? Does your conditioned behavior and past experience cause you to live in fear or faith? Does change scare you, fire up anxiety, reinvigorate, or excite you? I can write my story from many different perspectives. I can choose a positive, supportive, maybe new way of thinking and approach,…

Jul12022

Are You Quick To React? – Stimuli & Reaction Time

Are you quick to respond? In times of danger or emergency, a quick reaction time can be a good thing, but does everything justify an immediate response? Stimuli or events that create emotion or personal triggers deserve more time before choice of reaction. How can you create more space and time between stimuli and response?…

Jun12022

Is Your Sensitivity Your Superpower?

Have you ever heard, “Don’t be so sensitive” or “Stop taking it personally”? I have learned that my sensitivity can be my source of inner strength, my solution to adversity, and my superpower. When we deny our emotions exist, life moves on and the state of not feeling becomes true. The energy of emotion…

May12022

Are you in need of a new beginning?

Spring is in the air and I see it as a breath of fresh opportunity. Regardless of where I live, birds are chirping, days are getting longer, evenings are brighter, leaves are budding, and flowers are blossoming among other uplifting events happening around me this time of year. I love to make an excuse to…

Apr12022

What is your mantra of life?

Mantra is defined as a word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation or a statement or slogan repeated frequently. My mantra of life is ever-evolving and reflective of what I need, crave or desire in my world. My mantra offers me grounding and centering for direction of my day. With spring on the…

Mar12022

Best Health is not by Luck

I often think about the “luck of the Irish” this time of the year. Are the Irish really luckier in life? I doubt it. Being healthy in life is not by luck. I have learned I must take the right action in my life to strive for health–health of mind, body and soul. What does…

Feb22022

What is your inner voice saying?

One of my favorite yoga instructors, Gus, names the inner voice “your roommate” in your head. He says, “We all have one.” Does “your roommate” provide you support or criticism? I used to allow my “roomie” to speak in terms of the worst-case scenario. I thought that if anything better than worse case happened, then…

Jan12022

Will 2022 be a year of human “being” or human “doing”?

Do you feel and realize your every thought and action with spirit or just move through the motions using your mind? Let’s face it, the last almost two years have sucked in so many ways and burnout may be on the horizon or maybe has already exploded. It’s a new year and with that is…

Dec12021

Smart Goals = Success and Personal Strength

As I move beyond Thanksgiving and much gratitude, I enter deeper into the holiday season. With that comes celebrations and temptations that can throw my life off track. This could consist of eating differently, spending too much money on gifts, less meaningful movement, and general chaos with an over-socialized life. I have learned that if I approach my…

Nov12021

The Powerful Energy of Surrender!

“Feel the feeling, but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it.” Crystal Andrus Surrender is learning to let it be. It’s not about winning or losing the game, the war, or the situation. It’s about truly embracing what is. I have grown to believe from my experience and wisdom gained in life,…

Oct12021

What is your self-therapy of choice?

What is your self-therapy of choice? What do you do to revive, rejuvenate, and renew? I think there is a unique distinction between self-care and self-therapy. Therapy in psychology is defined as “the process of meeting with a therapist to resolve problematic behaviors, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and/or sensations in the body.” When I…

Sep32021

EMBRACE RESILIENCE

When challenges face you, the road gets rocky, or life simply feels overwhelming, what do you do? Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness per New Oxford American Dictionary. The Greater Good Science Center has studied resilience and offers these five strategies to build and sustain resilience. I…

Aug22021

Are you the source of your own suffering?

Our beliefs result in our emotions. Do you ever pause long enough to get still and ask yourself if the belief you have in your mind is true? Is it true? Plain and simple, right? WRONG! You are likely so darn busy that pausing is not a natural behavior. Next time something happens, humor me and try the following: Stop…

Jul22021

Fireworks or Freedom?

Fireworks and July 4th celebrations are coming as we recognize our country’s independence and freedom. Is your life full of other fireworks and lack of independence in any way? I encourage you to take the freedom of a quiet moment to reflect on this question. Is there drama, someone, or something in your life that…

Jun172021

Why Everyone Needs a Life & Health Coach

Life can be stressful, challenging, confusing, and even downright discombobulating. When you have someone who meets you where you are in life, listens actively and carefully articulates, and asks you questions, clarity and direction can be found. Love, safety, and belonging are three vital elements to anyone’s personal and professional life. When things happen in…

Jun102021

“Only YOU Can Take Care of YOU”

I have learned through life experiences that taking care of myself is on ME. Not my spouse, partner or best friend, it’s on me to make right choices for myself each and every day. In 2011, my entire world was turned upside down. I was faced with numerous physical and emotional forks in the road. …

“Thank you, Charlene, for being such a positive source in my life. Since the first time I met you, I always felt a connection and that you sincerely care. I love your spirit for mindfulness, quality food choices and overall positive energy!”

Luconda A., Co-Owner & CEO

“Charlene Bland was an excellent dietary and exercise consultant. I spent 25 weeks in her tutelage meeting weekly either face to face or at a Zoom meeting. She prepared an agenda with accountability questions and recommendations. Initially, she and I together participated in a ten-day detoxification. This set up an opportunity for success early. Charlene was always positive, knowledgeable, and encouraging…”

Cyndi F., Teacher