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Finding Balance
Work Hard, Play Hard. It’s an age-old adage that promotes a balance between work and pleasure. This balance isn’t always easy, we work hard for the money and sometimes it’s so exhausting that we don’t have time for ourselves. Even rituals like manicures may feel like more of a chore than an actual beauty moment. Finding the balance between working and making time for yourself is critical to your mental health. To start, I wake up a half-hour earlier than I really need to, yes in part because of that call I love getting in the morning but also because it gives me the opportunity to do a little bit…
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Restaurant Review: September Surf Café
I am not a doctor – any views expressed here I have researched to the best of my ability but may not reflect your doctors advice or be the right thing for you When I got back from my outing with a friend to the September Surf Cafe in Montreal, I immediately noted how good the bone broth was, to which my mother shot back that I was a hipster (agree to disagree on that point) but it was true. Unfortunately, while it was too late in the day to get a full meal I did get a matcha latte and a bone broth. This place is very cool, think…
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A Beautiful Morning
A Beautiful Morning Good Morning beautiful people – as one of my favourite homesteading gals would say – I hope you slept well and are ready for a wonderful day. So you’ve probably seen a lot of different morning routines out there but I thought I’d share mine. The first step for me is to wake up, usually, this is actually done by my boyfriend who calls me before he goes to work each day around 7 am or so. I am not an early riser, though I’ve tried in the past to become one. He sees me with hair around my face, wandering towards the kitchen like some zombie…
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Restaurant Review: Restaurant Imperial
As a kid, I spent a lot of time in Montreal, summers were punctuated by trips from my small town to the big city to spend time with my grandparents sailing, biking, baking and making trips to Chinatown for Dim Sum. While I can’t say I remember the exact Dim Sum place I used to go as a child, I thought I would bring back the tradition. A quick google search of the best places for Dim Sum brought up a few results and I did look for the most photogenic places as well but eventually decided to go to the place with amazing reviews, an online version of the…
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Planning a Healthy Year
I am not a doctor – any views expressed here I have researched to the best of my ability but may not reflect your doctors advice or be the right thing for you Habits are not an easy thing to make or break, it can take anywhere from 21 to 254 days to adopt new habits. A good way to start creating new habits is to first decide what those habits should be. Once this is done you can start planning how to achieve these habits. If you’ve ever met me, you’ll know I’m not the most organized time-conscious person in the world. I do however have a knack for…
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New Year New You
The year is 2020, I have just graduated from University and in a mere nine days, I will be 26 which is honestly horrifying because I realize that every year that has gone by I have made a resolution and then 2 weeks later I have gone back to my normal routine. I recently stumbled upon my 2018 list which included things like “do yoga every day” and “become a bad*ss”, sorry 2020 Lauren but you still haven’t done either of those things. So this year I’m changing the narrative: I’m not making a resolution. Instead of an unattainable resolution, I will quite honestly never meet I have decided that…
