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The Art of Intentional Living

Chic Dogs & Magnolia Dreams
The Art of Intentional Living
  • A nourishing Sunday at home!

    A nourishing Sunday at home!

    May 12, 2024March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    If you are anything like me, you absolutely love to spend a day at home without having to leave the house for anything. In fact, my favorite days are days that feel good to my entire nervous system. Slow days that are not governed by deadlines and have…

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  • Why rest matters and how joy is part of the equation!

    Why rest matters and how joy is part of the equation!

    May 10, 2024March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    As I come home at the end of a long day of teaching and stumble into the couch exhausted, my husband looks at me and says: “When are you going to learn that you are not supposed to give a 100% all of the time?!”. I frown but…

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  • What does it mean to have the courage to stay in your own lane?

    What does it mean to have the courage to stay in your own lane?

    February 10, 2024March 30, 2026 Home & Garden, Quiet Notes

    The allure of others Just think about how much time, energy and effort we expend by focusing on other people’s lives. Time, energy and effort we then lack for ourselves and the lives we wish to build for ourselves. It often manifests as comparison to others which then…

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  • 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, 2024March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    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, 2023March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    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, 2023March 30, 2026 Home & Garden
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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, 2023March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    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, 2023March 30, 2026 Home & Garden

    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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  • Intentional living and the power of words

    Intentional living and the power of words

    April 24, 2023March 30, 2026 Home & Garden, Quiet Notes

    Words are magic. They speak reality into existence. Words can create an oasis in a seemingly infinite desert, or they can turn vast oceans into wastelands. Words shape our carefully curated narratives. Even when we’re not consciously aware of it. Sometimes these narratives speak the truth. Other times,…

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  • Curating our environments with an eye for detail

    Curating our environments with an eye for detail

    April 24, 2023August 30, 2023 Home & Garden

    I think we tend to underestimate the power of details. How they add up and how they are components of a bigger narrative. Whether it is in our homes where we restore our minds and bodies, or in our offices where we work, or in the classrooms where…

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Inspiring you to create a soft and nourishing life!

L'art de la vie There's a lot we can't control in L'art de la vie

There's a lot we can't control in life.

But there's a lot we CAN.

Simple, everyday things turned into art. By paying attention, being intentional and caring for ourselves and the environments we shape.

This is why I love French culture so much.

They understand that life is both a gift, and an art form. 

They understand that we have the power to bring beauty and care to our days.

There might be tragedy, there might be loss. But beauty remains, even if we are temporarily unable to see it.

Go ahead...

Wear your favorite shirt.

Put on some lipstick and your favorite perfume.

Drink tea in a beautiful cup that belonged to your grandmother.

Watch the sun set while standing in the middle of a green meadow. 

Giggle out loud at your dog's silly antics.

Eat your favorite dessert with all your senses heightened.

Hope you have a joy filled Sunday.🩷

#intentional
Snippets of life in the countryside. Dogs Gardeni Snippets of life in the countryside.

Dogs
Gardening
Delicious food
The coziness of home

#countryside #dogslife
Focusing on the love that surrounds us. Some of m Focusing on the love that surrounds us.

Some of my favorite things:

Happy dogs
Fresh flowers from the market
Dogs
Our home
The garden
Dogs
Delicious food
Dancing with Marlow
Upbeat songs
Dogs

#life #happiness #dogsofinstagram #happy
Snippets of life. Home The countryside Moments i Snippets of life.

Home
The countryside 
Moments in Paris
Gardening as medicine
Rescue dogs turned into Chic Dogs

#life #dogsofinstagram #paris
#countryside
Life lately and the beauty and abundance of simple Life lately and the beauty and abundance of simple things.🩷🌸🐶

#homeandgardens #homebody #simplethings #softness
The April Garden There are many things I love abo The April Garden

There are many things I love about April:

The return of strawberries

Happier dogs galavanting through the garden

Birdsong.

Soft morning light illuminating our bedroom.

The scent of lilacs blooming.

The sense of hope when a seemingly dead Winter garden wakes up after a long slumber. Making everything lush and beautiful.

#April #Garden #springgarden
Snippets of Paris! The Parisian Art of Flâner. T Snippets of Paris!

The Parisian Art of Flâner.

To stroll and indulge in the surrounding beauty, details and delights. 

Without urgency.

Without destination.

Intentionally being in a world of mindlessly doing, is also rebellion. 

#paris #flanêr #artdevivre
The deliciousness of everyday life. Sometimes we The deliciousness of everyday life.

Sometimes we grow so accustomed to what we have that we become blind to it. 

In today's world, I am particularly grateful for:

- calm mornings
- homemade dinners
- reading
- planting trees
- sitting close to the ocean
- noticing how a dog's breathing softens as they fall asleep
- enjoying coffee and a warm waffle
- buying fresh flowers
- opening up all the windows
- invigorating walks in the countryside 
- the comfort and safety of home
- chatting with a colleague, not about work but instead, about gardening.

Intentional living is by definition an act of defiance, because it forces you to pay attention to the seemingly small things of everyday life. It nudges you to soften. 

In a world that pushes us to harden, suppress and be distracted... this is rebellion. It isn't loud and it doesn't roar, but it is rebellion nonetheless.

It is a quiet resistance.

Hope you are well and safe, wherever you may be.🩷

#intentionalliving 
#everydayliving
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
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