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The Art of Intentional Living

Chic Dogs & Magnolia Dreams
The Art of Intentional Living
  • The power of vision boards to create an intentional life and how to make one!

    The power of vision boards to create an intentional life and how to make one!

    January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Health & Well-being

    What is a vision board? In short, a vision board is a collage that you make with images of things you either want to feel, do, be or create in your life. The images represent what you want to become and create for yourself. It’s not a to…

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  • A Winter of Well-being

    A Winter of Well-being

    December 15, 2023December 15, 2023 Health & Well-being

    How to create a Winter of well-being and nourishment As the days grow shorter and shorter and the light continues to dim, even at the height of day, I can’t help but feel the urge to turn more inward. My body craving more rest and warmth. My mind…

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  • How to remain emotionally and mentally healthy when the world is on fire

    How to remain emotionally and mentally healthy when the world is on fire

    October 22, 2023October 22, 2023 Health & Well-being
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    I don’t know about you, but to me, the brutality of this world brings me to my knees more often than I am willing to admit. It seems like peace and respect are so difficult to come by. I even find it difficult to wrap my thoughts around…

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  •  6 ways to immerse yourself in the beauty of September

     6 ways to immerse yourself in the beauty of September

    August 11, 2023October 11, 2023 Health & Well-being

    September? Already? Can you believe it’s September already? *Big sigh of not-quite-sure-if-it’s-relief-yet* 😉. It feels like Summer has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Even when I decided to have a slow and soft Summer, it still flew by. Or at least that’s how it…

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  • 5 ways to bring more softness and nourishment into our daily lives

    5 ways to bring more softness and nourishment into our daily lives

    May 7, 2023August 24, 2023 Health & Well-being

    Too fast!

    As the years pass by, life seems to become even more fast paced than it ever was before. Have you noticed this? In your own life and in the life of everyone around you, busyness seems to be prevalent. We are so exhausted, so depleted and for some reason, we seem to have made a collective agreement that ‘this is life’.

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Inspiring you to create a soft and nourishing life!

A cozy home that feels like a warm hug. Filled wi A cozy home that feels like a warm hug.

Filled with books, dogs and candles.

One that feels both grounding and soothing to the soul, and nourishing to the heart.

#homebody #cozyhome
I started instagram a decade ago. I have been usin I started instagram a decade ago. I have been using it as some sort of a visual diary ever since, capturing the beauty of small everyday moments that bring so much light, warmth and comfort to my life. 

It reminds me to pay attention to the seemingly small things that make up a life and to be grateful for it. To not take any of it for granted, because as we know, it can all be gone in a blink of an eye.

Instagram had always been something positive to me. A place to inspire and be inspired. But now, once you start watching a reel, it sucks you all the way down to the brainwashing abyss. 

And it happens to the most conscientious of us. No one is immune to it. It gradually transforms us into exhausted, enraged and frustrated sleepwalkers. 

I think what this world needs is not more rage and hopelessness. What it needs is anchoring. It needs to believe that it can create something that is sustainable instead of burning everything to the ground. And it starts with each and every individual. It starts by keeping our eyes open and protecting our energy and what we want to stand for, rather than what we are against.

I have been moving away from the enticement and lure of the digital world for a while now. Not entirely rejecting it but being more intentional and aware of how it gradually erodes my attention and sense of presence. 

Setting firmer foot in the real world.

Keeping my eyes on beauty and light. Because that is the only thing that keeps me from drowning in a world of such persistent brutality.

I hope you are well, wherever you may be.🩷

#intentional #analog
"I would rather you'd say thank you!" Marlow's sp "I would rather you'd say thank you!"

Marlow's speech whenever I tell him to stop barking!🤣

#funnydogs
This is what I love most about Winter... Slow, co This is what I love most about Winter...

Slow, cozy and gentle Sunday mornings spent at home with the Chic Dogs.

Sipping tea, wearing warm, fuzzy socks and soft oversized sweaters, reading books, and eating crispy croissants... 

The deliciousness is even more palpable when there is snow outside.

Pure bliss in my book.❄️📚🐕

Hope you are warm, safe and paying attention to the tiny luxuries in your life.💙

#cozysunday
This little life is what I dreamed of as a child. This little life is what I dreamed of as a child. 

A warm and cozy home, where I'm surrounded by love and warmth. 

A happy home that feels like a gentle hug. Especially on days in which the world feels like a suffocating place, loud and harsh. 

A home that smells like warm toast and salted butter on a quiet Sunday morning. 

A home filled with dogs, books and flowers.

A home that is surrounded by my very own Secret Garden... a garden that heals, restores and shelters the heart of gentle creatures.🩷

#homebody
December in the countryside.🎄 Calm, gentle and in December in the countryside.🎄

Calm, gentle and intentional.

Filled with small, everyday luxuries and seasonal warmth.🥧

With dogs of course! 
Always with dogs.🩷

#cozyhome #softness #simplicity
Slow and gentle, that's how we want December to fe Slow and gentle, that's how we want December to feel like. 

Especially the mornings...

so we can start our days with a full battery and move intentionally and gently through the world.

#slowmornings #wintering #gentleliving
Snippets of a cozy life.🫖🥧🎄 #cozylife Snippets of a cozy life.🫖🥧🎄

#cozylife
There was so much I wanted to say before I logged There was so much I wanted to say before I logged on... And now, my mind just goes blank.

November felt like a steep hill. Moving in and out of what seems like a continuous loop of migraines. 

I don't know which one goes first anymore... Do the migraines cause the exhaustion or is it the exhaustion that causes to migraines?! 

There is so much that my mind wants to do, say, create... My body however, refuses to budge and if I dare to neglect her signs, I am reminded with throbbing pain who is in charge here. 

Maybe this is part of maturing too. Learning to accept what is instead of coercing it to be something else. Life is cyclical and this too will pass.

Perhaps this blankness, this void, is exactly where I need to be for now.

The nourishing energy of simple things, a warm home, books and the company of friendly dogs, might be exactly what my body and mind needs right now.

Hope you are well.🍂☕️🥧🩷🫖

#wellbeing #Wintering #softness #simplicity #comfort
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