Self-Care

Practical Self-Care for Moms

Buy Yourself Flowers: 11 Acts of Self Romance

I could never be the main female character in a 17th-century romance novel because a farmhand of my estate would find my lifeless body out…

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11 Ways to Make Life the Opposite of Stressful

My car breaking down on the thruway on Christmas Eve with a toddler put a new perspective on holiday stress. But as with all things,…

Go from Procrastinator to Self Care Planner!

The shine from my week-long unwashed, fresh-from-the-gym hair was painfully apparent as I rolled up to the Dunkin drive-thru on my third on-call case of…

5 Reasons to Ditch Self-Care Sundays

Self-care Sundays are dead. Or at least, they should be. You may be thinking, “But Ashley, isn’t that what Circling the Sandbox is all about?…

7 Reasons to Love Tarot

The depths a person dives into with burnout would make James Cameron jealous. But since the average working mom, including me, can’t invest in a…

7 Steps to Mindful Living

The phrase mindful living immediately creates a vivid picture of a meditating yak: maybe it’s the association of mindfulness, meditation, and the Himalayas. Or that…