One Year Ago . . .

❤꧁ღ⊱♥ We, Lifestyle by Design stand for FREEDOM

We stand with Ukraine

We Lifestyle by Design stand for CHOICES

We stand with Ukraine

We Lifestyle by Design stands for DEMOCRACY

We stand with Ukraine

We The People are Ukraine ♥⊱ღ꧂❤

𝓟𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓮 & 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓸𝓷𝔂, 𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓣𝓮𝓪𝓶

We Welcome Everyone . . .

Let’s Find Peace . . .

This Memorial weekend I want to honor all lives lost this year either through past wars, current wars, or domestic wars. I want to honor ALL.

Let’s make sure we are communicating to our children that we will do our best to keep them safe. Do not lie to them, if they ask questions . . . answer them.

The silence from parents, guardians, and school officials cannot happen, it is seen by children that they did something wrong.

Hug the children in your life, laugh with them, talk silly when they talk silly . . . remember OUR CHILDREN pay the ultimate price when they begin their first footprints on this earth.

Let’s us all do the right and honorable things we can do for them to make sure those footprints carry on . . . .

#UvaldeStrong #GloryToUkraine

𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑰𝒔 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝑰𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉.” — 𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏

It’s Too Hot . . .

What else is there to do on this hot-humid-sweltering day . . . Get your boogie shoes on and dance in a cool space!

Peace ♥ Harmony

Cheryl XO

It Doesn’t Matter Where You Stand . . .

Here at Lifestyle by Design we believe

Everyone deserves Love!

Peace ♥ Harmony

Cheryl XO

Wellness Wednesday

I post this is honor of Notorious RBG – I had liked opera music in the past, but now listening to it each day to honor her I have found that “I LOVE it”.

This genre of music gives me a sense of Peace, a place where it becomes quiet with all that is around me and the music just fills in at the right time and the right spaces.

Try it . . . . take 5:56 minutes to let this music moment fill you with Peace and Freedom from the chaos that is filling in all areas of our lives.

Do something different today, if you’ve never listened to this type of music – Do it for your Mental Health do it for your Peace of Mind!

Peace Harmony & Love ♪ ♫ ♪

X ♥ O Cheryl

Wellness Wednesday

This mindfulness exercise I have used in my classroom with great success with children that were having a tough time calming themselves at certain times of the day.

This exercise not only helps children learn about how their emotions can cloud their thoughts, but it also facilitates the practice of mindfulness while focusing on the swirling glitter in the jar.

Try having the kids focus on one emotion at a time, such as anger, and discuss how the shaken verse settling glitter is like that emotion.

If you leave the jar where they can use it with assistance (if glass) it will be a tool they will reach out for in those moments they are struggling.

Peace Harmony & Love

Cheryl XO

Holding Onto The Past

Old News Quote

Peace Harmony & Happy letting go!

XO Cheryl

Tips To Being Happy

think happy be happy~Simply try it. A little effort can go a long way in increasing happiness. There are plenty of experimental studies that have found that simply trying to be happier could actually elevate your mood and well-being. 

~Make happiness your number-one goal. People who are happy choose to make happiness among their top goals in life, according to psychologist Tom G. Stevens, Ph.D., author of You Can Choose to Be Happy. Learning good self-management skills, interpersonal skills, and career-related skills along with choosing to be in environments and around people that increase your probability of happiness. 

~Linger in those tiny little, positive moments. “Our brains are wired to scout for all that’s bad — the brain is like velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones. This “negativity bias” causes the brain to react intensely to bad news, compared to how it responds to the good news. But we can counter the brain’s negativity bias — which triggers us to form stronger bad memories than good ones — by appreciating and lingering on those tiny, positive moments.” – according to Rick Hanson, neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness.

~Choose mindfulness. The secret to happiness could be as simple (and difficult) as becoming more mindful. Meditation — a practice that anyone can do, anywhere, so long as they’re willing to sit and try to silence the mind — is thought to be a happiness-booster. I used to think that this “meditation stuff” was . . . excuse me for saying — bullshit! But, I have been using meditation since 2003. It was actually prescribed to me by my holistic doctor out of Madison, CT. The best tool I have found to calm my mind — no bullshit!

~Smile your way to happiness. The secret to boosting your mood could be as simple as making yourself smile. Fake smiling, on the other hand, results in the worse moods and withdrawal from others. It really is that simple, you create a happy environment when you’re smiling at people instead of frowning or showing a face of anger. Smiling can change our brain. Let’s say you experience a positive situation and you see a friend you haven’t seen in a long time. This means that neuronal signals travel from the cortex of your brain to the brainstem (the oldest part of our brains). From there, the cranial muscle carries the signal further towards the smiling muscles in your face — And you have a smile!

~Practice compassion. Want to increase your brain’s capacity for happiness? “Compassion is the most transforming energy in the universe with all the ingredients that everyone longs for; the embodiment of kindness, of caring, of loving. It is a skill that can be enhanced with practice, it’s not impractical or touchy-feely but a courageous state of mind and heart, with far-reaching consequences in terms of how we experience ourselves, the world and reality” (Mindfulness at Work). Try meditating on compassion.

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

~Dalai Lama