Lifestyle – Thriving with Deanna

13 Ways to Get Out of Your Head & Rejuvenate Your Energy

25.9.2019

When I was sick, I often found myself stuck deep inside my head and body. Sure, I would often go within for necessary introspection or appropriate checking in. However, much of the time I was lost in thought about how to fix or solve what was going on with me. It was also frequently a defense mechanism because my energy was so low, that handling external stimuli was quite overwhelming at times. Healing requires a lot of energy and it is important to know our boundaries and be able to protect our energy, but I found that being stuck inside myself too much was a drain on my energy as well. I discovered that there were ways I could get outside my head and rejuvenate...

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13 Ways to Reduce Plastic Use & Waste

12.9.2019

Health, Lifestyle, Low Toxin Living

Hey there! If you're here reading this (which I guess you are, right?!), then we should be friends! Please come follow me on Instagram, if you're not already, so we can hang out there and get to know one another better! It was on Instagram that I first shared some of the ways we reduce plastic in our home, especially when it comes to food and beverages. Currently, on Tuesdays, I share tips for reducing toxins in our lives in my Low-Toxin Tuesday Series in Instagram Stories. I also do a Thought(ful) Thursday Series. If you're currently feeling FOMO and wondering how you could've possibly been missing out all this time-- DON'T! You can go to the highlights section on my Instagram profile and find...

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3 Tips to Regain Your Period: My Experiences with Hypothalamic Amenorrhea

14.8.2019

Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Uncategorized

I first started my period just before I turned 11 years old. That’s young!!! I look at 11 year old girls now and think it seems too early! I remember being embarrassed and incredibly self-conscious about it for at least the first year. I felt like everyone could tell when it was that time of the month and I was always concerned about having an incident in front of others. As time went by, I started to get really uncomfortable cramps, would want to wear whatever clothing I wanted without concern, and wanted to go swimming whenever I wanted…and that was the start of my period feeling like a really annoying inconvenience. It certainly wasn’t something I honored as the sign of optimal health, femininity, and...

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Desire + LEARN + TRUST + Nourish = VIBRANT LIFE (Part 2)

15.6.2017

Lifestyle, Mindset

Today we return to our discussion about the equation Desire + Learn + Trust + Nourish = VIBRANT LIFE. We started with Desire. If you haven't read that yet, start there. LEARN. So once we've decided we're ready for change, it's important to get our groove on with learning. We'll want to be open minded because it's possible we'll learn that our original thought about how to achieve what we desire isn't the most appropriate route for us. So often we accept as truth things we've heard without even stopping to consider where they've come from and how we really feel about them. So now is the time to learn more about the area in which we want to see results, methods of accomplishing those results, who...

It starts with habits.

10.5.2017

Lifestyle

I have a series of blog posts I will be sharing here shortly regarding the tagline you may have noticed on my home page. Desire + Learn + Trust + Nourish = VIBRANT LIFE. There we will dig much deeper into a discussion about goals. In the meantime, I wanted to discuss those smaller steps we use to achieve broader desires. Have you ever noticed what those smaller increments often consist of? The creation of new habits. Right?! Think about it. It’s things like: complete 3 important tasks related to the larger goal each day; get to bed by 10:30 each night; eat additional servings of veggies each day, etc. Those daily habits then add up over time to create our larger desired outcomes. Creating...