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Tips For Making New Year’s Resolutions
If you’ve been reading a while, then you know I’m not a huge fan of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s not that I’m opposed to goal-setting or the process of bettering ourselves, per se, it’s just that I get...
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Trust: My Intention for the New Year
Happy New Year, everybody. <3 I know last week I shared some of my thoughts on New Year’s resolutions (you can also check out my latest Thirty on Tap post on how I’m done apologizing), but today I...
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Embracing the Mess
Oh, this post has serendipitous timing (for me—hopefully for you, as well). At the beginning of the week, all my thoughts were a jumbled mess in my head. I felt certain I was coming down with an...
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My Women’s March Experience
Greetings! I hope today finds you well. For as long as I’ve been writing A Cup of Catherine, I’ve tried to keep things relatively neutral when it comes to politics as an effort to avoid isolating any...
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Have We Taken Self-Improvement Too Far?
As somebody who’s “hobby-blogged” for almost 5 years, I have to say I’ve become a little annoyed. Not with individuals—especially not with my handful of faithful readers and followers (love you guys!...
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Love Yourself On Valentine’s Day
Next Wednesday is Valentine’s Day—everybody’s favorite greeting-card holiday filled with price-gouged roses, generic chocolates, and maybe something expensive and sparkly. Oh, and it’s the day of love....
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NEDA Week: Let’s Get Real
February 26 – March 4 marks this year’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDA Week) and 2018’s theme is “Let’s Get Real.” I am not a medical professional, nor have I ever been diagnosed with an...
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5 Books that Have Changed My Life for the Better
If you know me personally, then you know I love to read as much as I love to write. There is just something so special about losing yourself in a good story, getting to know an author when reading...
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Why I Don’t Want to Hustle
Everybody loves a good motivating quote or image, but some of the inspiration I see today seems misguided. At least for me personally, in my current season of life. I’m talking about what I’ve termed...
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Food Isn’t a Feeling
For a decent portion of my life, I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with food. From extremely picky eating and food dye allergies as a child to culinary adventures and fervent attempts at “intuitive...
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5 Food & Fitness Habits I No Longer Practice
Today’s post is inspired by Ashley and Erin who both shared similar posts recently. I’ve written about how my mindset and routine concerning fitness and food have changed in the last few...
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Give Yourself Permission
I know I’m late to the game, but right now I’m about half-way through Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic (affiliate link)—and I’m loving what she has to say about creativity, authentic living, and not...
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10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Marriage
Today is Mark’s and my TENTH anniversary! I honestly can’t believe we’ve been married this long. It seems like just a few years ago we’d met in college, and here were are with a 3 ½ year old child and...
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How To Support Mental Health Awareness Month
May is recognized annually as Mental Health Awareness Month. Most long-time readers know that I’m passionate about promoting overall wellness, sharing my own experiences with anxiety and depression,...
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Responding to Your Inner Critic
Every single day for me is a practice in valuing and loving myself. As a chronic people pleaser who yearns for acceptance and respect from my loved ones and the authority figures in my life, it’s not...
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…None of Your Business
In a two-day span, I saw this quote in several different places, and it resonated strongly with me: Isn’t that great? Of course this quote got me thinking because, even as an adult and somebody who, in...
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10 Ways I Manage My Anxiety
Several months ago I received an email from a woman who’d read my post on antidepressants. She was so thoughtful and brave by reaching out to me and sharing a few details about her own anxiety and...
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