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The Art of Intentional Living

Chic Dogs & Magnolia Dreams
The Art of Intentional Living
Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

April 28, 2025May 26, 2025 Books, Travel

Stepping Inside a Painting Last month, I stepped into a painting and I don’t mean that metaphorically. I found myself standing in a softly lit space in Antwerp, where Claude Monet’s brushstrokes bloomed across the walls, floor, and ceiling. Water lilies rippled around my feet. Flowers shimmered and…

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The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

April 21, 2025May 26, 2025 A Writer's Thoughts, Books

There’s something quietly radical about curling up with a book in a world that urges you to scroll. Even more so when you choose a physical book, your eyes will thank you for the relief. We often don’t realize just how surrounded we are by screens until we…

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10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 Books
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens I’ve read some pretty amazing books in 2024 but the one that stood out the most, and the one I was most eager to start reading, was Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. The title is absolutely delicious if…

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Inspiring you to create a soft and nourishing life!

Being honest with yourself about who you are, what Being honest with yourself about who you are, what you want and what you need in order to thrive... is crucial when creating an intentional life for yourself.

Agency and self-awareness are key ingredients.

Because only then will you be fully alive in the world you've consciously created for yourself, rather than quietly disappearing into a world you're trying to conform to.

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It's hydrangea season in and around the house and It's hydrangea season in and around the house and as you can see, they are loving all this rain we've been having.

Hydrangea season will always remind of beautiful Cape Cod.

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A soft life in full bloom. Not loud or ostentatio A soft life in full bloom.

Not loud or ostentatious.
Instead, it is slow, deeply nourishing to the mind and enchanting to the soul.

It's a life where beauty is found in the mundane, in the seemingly small everyday moments. 
It's a life that demands awareness and a willingness to focus your lens on the light, on beauty.

It's the scent of warm coffee and freshly baked  croissants on a morning in Paris, the quiet companionship of beloved dogs curled up at your feet, the velvety softness of rose petals from the garden, the spark of inspiration after opening a book...

It's choosing beauty, over and over again no matter how loud or how dark the world gets.

This is defiance.

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Life is too short! Joy & beauty are not frivolous, Life is too short! Joy & beauty are not frivolous, they are life-giving.

Paris!❤️

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Stellita! 🦊 
Happy, healthy and thriving. ❤️

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Wishing you a gentle and beautiful week.🌸 #gen Wishing you a gentle and beautiful week.🌸

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What does it mean to truly choose what your heart What does it mean to truly choose what your heart desires? To wear the shoes you love, paint your nails red, live life on your own terms and break free from generational limitations and expectations.

My new blogpost is a love letter to all of us who dare to want more. Softly, fiercely ane unapologetically.

Read it now via link in stories and bio.❤️

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The nourishment of everyday moments. #slowlife #c The nourishment of everyday moments.

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There's a quiet magic in the simplicity of everyda There's a quiet magic in the simplicity of everyday beauty. The way flowers bloom without asking, dogs love without question and home feels like a soft place to land.♥️

If this quiet kind of magic speaks to your heart too, take a seat, pour yourself a cup of tea and wander through the blog. There's more softness waiting for you there.

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