by Shadra Bruce | Jan 30, 2018 | Let's Talk, Stress Management
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce My grandmother worked full time. She had to, as a single mom with four kids ten and under. It wasn’t a choice. My mom hated that her mom always worked, so when she had kids, she stayed home full time. While it was nice having our...
by Shadra Bruce | Jan 23, 2018 | Home and Hearth, Stress Management
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Do you live your life planning your next move? I do. We move often enough that my friends check to make sure where we are before sending Christmas cards each year. They only pencil in our mailing address because they know it’s...
by Shadra Bruce | Dec 19, 2017 | Stress Management, Travel, Work at Home
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce This time of year, we’re grounded. Not only are the roads often treacherous enough that we just don’t chance traveling, but this year in particular, we have to send off our passports to be renewed. This means we cannot even...
by Kira Hazledine | Nov 25, 2017 | On Motherhood, Self-Improvement, Stress Management
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Today has been one of those days. I had a therapy session this morning that was particularly brutal, and although I came home to a smiling toddler, an hour later things unraveled. Hallie and I shared her very first public in-store...
by Kira Hazledine | Oct 12, 2017 | Creating Balance, Self-Improvement, Stress Management
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Self-care is important, especially as a mom. You can’t possibly devote all the necessary energies to your kids if your own tank is measuring empty. As much as I try to repeat this mantra to myself, I must admit that I suck at...
by Shadra Bruce | Oct 11, 2017 | Creating Balance, Stress Management
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Our family has been trying to simplify our lives. We’ve always tried to focus more on experiences than stuff, but even so, when we went to make our last cross-country move, we could have easily filled two moving trucks. So we...
