The Plus Size Magazine for Women with Curves
All sorts of variables can put us in stressful situations. Some of them we create, others just happen. Either way, it doesn’t do us any good to get bent out of shape and full of angst when what we really need is to remain calm, rational and productive. Here ten tips to help you remain… [Continue Reading]
Monday Motivation with Monica Marie Jones When I go out to do observations and quality assessments for youth programs, one of the first things that we look for is their emergency procedures which should be posted in plain view. Emergency procedures let people know which way to go in order to stay safe in the… [Continue Reading]
I’ve been designing flyers for a certain woman for about 2 years now. I’ll be redesigning her website soon. Despite working with her, I never knew her full story. I knew she was wheelchair bound. I knew she was CEO of a company, Sunshine Project H.E.L.P, that provides help and training to those with spinal… [Continue Reading]
Morning Motivation With Author Monica Marie Jones Take a moment to envision where you want to be in life. Where do you want to live? What do you want to look like? How do you want to feel emotionally? What kind of car do you want to drive? How much money do you want to… [Continue Reading]
Women are busier than ever, and even if you love juggling a million things at once, the inevitable stress it creates still takes it toll. The human body was not created to run at full-speed all day. In order to deal with stress, your body revs up some systems and turns down others. The systems… [Continue Reading]
As our days get more complicated and our lives more complex, it seems that chaos abounds. Work, family, bills and obligations eat up our time, and keep us bouncing from one circumstance to another, like a pinball caught in a never-ending game. Author, Maureen Daigle-Weaver believes that writing about your life, what we call ‘journaling,’… [Continue Reading]
Carla Triplett has struggled with her wieght for most of her life. When she joined the cast of the hit reality show, The Biggest Loser in Season 7, she was the heaviest woman in Biggest Loser history, weighing in at 379 lbs. Although Carla was eliminated in week 5, she continued the process and lost the weight with the help… [Continue Reading]
Monday Motivation with Monica Marie Jones I often take long road trips to literary events or to visit book clubs in other cities around the United States, so it may come as a surprise to you that I AM NOT a big fan of driving. As the hours go by I find myself saying, “I… [Continue Reading]
Monday Motivation with Monica Marie Jones I’m sitting here at the Detroit Metro Airport after having missed my early morning flight to Rochester, New York. In the past I might have cried or been frustrated to the point of making myself physically sick. Now I sit here just as calm and cool as a cat… [Continue Reading]
I spent the weekend replanting seventeen pots on my patio. It was time. My glorious crop of spring crocuses, grape hyacinth, daffodils and tulips had finished. Only the memory of their pastel beauty and a tangle of withered blossoms and dead, brown leaves remained. But before you plant new flowers in a pot, you must… [Continue Reading]
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