Summer is here; there’s no denying that – the weather has certainly started to heat up, which is why I thought it was time to share a little self-care post with you. Apparently, summer is the time when a lot of us fail to think about self-care because we’re too busy lapping up the sun, but we shouldn’t do – throughout the year, it’s important to make self-care a priority. Without further ado, below are a few summer self-care tips to take note of. Don’t spend too long in the sun  ...

We go through life trying to find the perfect balance between our diet and our exercise. For some, it’s a lifetime struggle and this is usually due to outside factors that affect our choices. If you haven’t already begun to pay attention to your own health and fitness, now is the time to start. It’s not just about cutting out junk food and drinks full of sugar, it’s about your fitness levels and how much you exercise. Focus more on what is on the inside of your body than what your body  ...

Flickr Getting on the road to becoming a better person is a deeply spiritual pursuit. Spiritual doesn’t necessarily mean prescribed to a certain religion, but rather shedding the layers of dishonesty and neuroticism that it’s easy to accumulate in our modern, fast-paced disposable culture. To better yourself can sometimes seem too hard, or not worth the effort, or simply too time consuming. This is not true. If you can dedicate yourself to self-improvement 30 minutes a day you’re already  ...

Image source If you think you are alone in the whole, “I can’t be bothered to go the gym,” movement that is sweeping the nation, well, you aren’t. It’s totally normal to finish your eight-hour working day (of course, by eight hours we mean ten and a half) and feel completely unmotivated to do anything but get home ASAP, curl up in front of Orange Is The New Black and then curse yourself for being lazy. Seriously. This. Is. Normal. Don’t worry, though, all hope has not been quashed because  ...