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Getting through the holidays can exact a heavy toll on the body; carrying heavy shopping bags, standing for hours at parties (in heels), sitting in cramped seat aboard your holiday flight to see family & friends.  The result chronic aches and low energy, not to mention stress of the social whirl.  When you get stressed, you often hold your breath, which leads to holding your muscles.  It feels like you’re wearing a straightjacket.

You can stretch out the holiday stress, though, with a little time and effort. Start by doing some form of exercise & meditation for at least 15 minutes a day, this can help rejuvenate you, it paves the way to a calmer, less achy, and more energized you!  It’s a giving season, so consider it a present to you. 

When you look in the mirror and not like what you see there.  It all has to do with how you’re feeling within.  If you fix that first, I believe you’ll start to love yourself unconditionally.  Start each day by looking in the mirror at the beautiful person you are and tell yourself you are beautiful, loved and fabulous.  Cheers!

I know this to be true from my own personal experience.  Today, as I celebrate another fabulous birthday, I so appreciative of God’s grace and his love for me.  I believe beauty is within and if you have a beautiful spirit that will be reflective externally in your every being.  If you have particular imperfections such as laughing lines, this is a good thing.  They show you’ve been happy and living a healthy life, they also show confidence, power and everything good.  I believe if you want to be beautiful, feel beautiful or make someone else feel beautiful, a positive attitude is the best way to go.  Inner beauty is the constant search for your own confidence, and finding that in yourself if the most important thing!  Today is an awesome day, and I am thankful for another year to share my life with my family and very dear friends.  Cheers!

Holding on to anger and resentment is an emotional weight that robs you of your joy.  Let it go.  Happiness is spiritual peace, peace with a higher power, with you and with others.  And while you’re handing out pardons, give away a few other things too:  Generosity makes us feel as if we’re making a difference by creating an environment of connection and love.   Cheers!

Start by eating nourishing food and getting a good night sleep that consist of at least six to eight hours of sleep every night.  Exercise regularly this adds to your feeling of well being and may help prevent diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses.  Research shows that exercising three times a week for 30 minutes has the same impact as drugs used to treat depression.  Give yourself permission to be human.  When we accept emotions such as fear, sadness and anxiety as natural we are more prone to overcome them.  Cheers!

Start & end each day by recalling at least one moment that made you feel grateful, anything from a beautiful day to just your life.  Practice sitting in quiet place and take time to acknowledge your blessings!  Then keep track of your blessing by journaling on sistahology.com.  Cheers!

Research show that we need five positive interactions for every negative interaction in order for us to consider a relationship a happy one.  Surround yourself with people who support and encourage you, and stay away to those who criticize and deplete you.  Remember you deserve to be happy.  Cheers!

T.G.I.F., As we prepare for the weekend slow down, if you are going to go out and get in the holiday shopping crowds try not to rush; pause when your body needs a break.  Roll with it; Give yourself permissions to forget little things.  Observe, try to see the people and things around you as they are, not as you wish them to be. Last but not least, breathe and tell yourself you can get through this.  Happy Holiday’s!

Research show that we need five positive interactions for every negative interaction in order for us to consider a relationship a happy one.  Surround yourself with people who support and encourage you, and stay away to those who criticize and deplete you.  Remember you deserve to be happy.  Cheers!

We’re just weeks away from the start of a new year!  Make commitments, and then practice keeping your word.  The greatest dreams will not be accomplished without discipline and daily effort, and it’s that process that brings you joy.  It’s about doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.  Cheers!