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Snow-Themed Journaling Prompts

In our popular, ongoing series of journaling prompts, I wanted to expand further upon my set of wintertime journaling prompts. The winter season is a wonderful time for inward reflection, especially since the...

Snow-Themed Journaling Prompts

By Andy Hayes

4 Things You Can Do to Maintain Serenity During the Holidays

Andy Hayes

Tis the season for holly, jolly, and frayed nerves. (Don't laugh — you know it's true.) I think it is possible to enjoy the season and at the same time...

4 Things You Can Do to Maintain Serenity During the Holidays

By Andy Hayes

How to Find The Little Things That Make Life Easier

Andy Hayes

As the saying goes, life comes at you fast.Often meant in cliché, I do think there is much truth to it. Our culture emphasizes speed and escalation. Bigger and better. Don't acknowledge the need...

How to Find The Little Things That Make Life Easier

By Andy Hayes

How the "Yes, And" Improv Technique Can Improve Your Positivity

Andy Hayes

Previously we have talked about how positively impactful an improv class can be on your emotional health. Today I'd like to talk about a specific improve technique and how it...

How the "Yes, And" Improv Technique Can Improve Your Positivity

By Andy Hayes

15 Pick-Me-Ups to Boost Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

It doesn't require a dark night of the soul to have a bit of a rough day -- we all have seasonal lows. It's nothing to be ashamed of; in...

15 Pick-Me-Ups to Boost Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

Self Care Journaling Prompts

Andy Hayes

I'm loving that we're celebrating self care month here at Plum Deluxe -- it's such an important topic to me, I hope we celebrate it every year! But, sometimes it's...

Self Care Journaling Prompts

By Andy Hayes

How to Find Quiet

Andy Hayes

Noise. noun: a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance. Continuous exposure to noise can lead to physiological changes in blood pressure, sleep, digestion, and...

How to Find Quiet

By Andy Hayes

Tea Before Bed, and 5 Other Bedtime Rituals for Mindful Sleeping

Andy Hayes

Everywhere I turn, I seem to find someone talking about their morning rituals: miracle mornings, mindful mornings, how to be a morning person... the drumbeat of the sunrise power hour...

Tea Before Bed, and 5 Other Bedtime Rituals for Mindful Sleeping

By Andy Hayes

How to Spend More Quality Time with Family, Friends, & Yourself

Andy Hayes

I recently posted this image quote in an edition of our weekly newsletter, The Blend. It has, by far, been the most commented on quote I've authored recently. (If you...