My Therapeutic Getaway!

15 days, 6 cities, countless little joys.

London. Birmingham. Manchester. Milton Keynes. Buckinghamshire. Wolverhampton.

No rush. No pressure. Just a therapeutic getaway. 🌿

Grateful for the strangers’ smiles, random street music, slow mornings with tea… and YES,  the best pistachio cake I’ve ever tasted. 💚🍰

Travel keeps reminding me: stop taking life so seriously. The world is wide, people are everywhere, gratitude is always in season.

Dee 🧳✈️

🦋🐝 Knowing Your Organizing Style is a Gift

For years, I thought my organizing style was “messy but functional.” My space may not always look Pinterest-perfect, but I can tell you exactly where everything is. Move one item without telling me, and suddenly I’m 30 minutes behind schedule, retracing my steps, trying to figure out why my flow has been disrupted.

It turns out, there’s actually a name for this. In the world of organizing, people often fall into four styles, and knowing yours is a gift😎.

🦋 The Butterfly

Visual + broad categories.

Needs to see things to remember them.

Loves open bins, baskets, and colorful systems.

Struggles when items are hidden away.

🐝 The Bee

Visual + detailed categories.

Knows exactly where every little thing belongs.

Thrives on labels and order, but still likes things visible.

Can feel stressed if someone disturbs the system.

👉 This is where I land—somewhere between Butterfly and Bee. My space might look “not so perfectly arranged,” but every item has a home in my head. Touch it, and you’ll throw me off completely.

🐞 The Ladybug

Hidden + broad categories.

Wants things tucked away but doesn’t sweat the details.

Great at quick cleanups with baskets or cupboards.

The risk? Everything looks neat outside, but the insides might be a jumble.

🦗 The Cricket

Hidden + detailed categories.

The traditional perfectionist organizer.

Loves filing systems, drawer dividers, and perfectly labeled shelves.

Can get stuck in perfectionism and spend hours on upkeep.

🎁 The Real Gift

What I’ve learned is this: organization isn’t about perfection, it’s about self-awareness.

When you understand your style, you stop fighting yourself. You don’t have to copy someone else’s picture-perfect method, you just need to honor what works for you.

And when you do? You save time, energy, and frustration. You gain flow in your daily life. You move with ease.

That, my friends, is a gift. ✨

Dee🎁💝

Life Lessons from My Yoga Mat

One pose at a time makes it all so easy. The instructor says, Downward-Facing Dog… easy. Mountain Pose… easy. Hands to Prayer… easy. But the moment I think about all the poses at once, it suddenly feels overwhelming.🤷‍♀️

Lesson 1: Take life one step at a time, one day at a time.

Sometimes I wobble in Tree Pose. My foot slips, my balance shifts but the instructor reminds me, find your center and return to it.

Lesson 2: You will lose balance sometimes. Just return to your center.

During Child’s Pose, everything slows. My breath deepens, my mind quiets. It’s a reminder that rest is also part of progress.

Lesson 3: Pausing is not quitting it’s recharging.

Off the mat or on it, these lessons stay with me. One breath. One step. One pose at a time.

Dee🧘🏽‍♀️

Don’t Forget to Be Happy While Being Strong

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned how to be strong.

How to hold it together.

How to keep going.

How to keep smiling through pressure, pain, and responsibility.

But in all that strength…

We sometimes forget to be happy.

We forget to pause.

To breathe.

To laugh not just politely, but freely.

To notice the softness of a morning breeze, the smell of rain, or the way someone’s eyes light up when they’re talking about something they love.

We wake up, we suit up emotionally or literally and we do what must be done. But strength without joy becomes survival. And we were not born just to survive.

Here’s the truth:

Every day passes, whether we like it or not.

Whether we smile or frown.

Whether we’re hopeful or numb.

Yesterday is already gone.

Tomorrow hasn’t come yet.

All we truly have is today.

And today deserves more than our autopilot.

It deserves our attention.

Our gratitude.

Our softness.

So if you’ve been carrying a lot…

If life has demanded more from you than you thought you could give…

If you’ve been strong for so long you don’t even remember what it’s like to feel light 

This is a gentle reminder:

💛 You’re allowed to feel joy even when life is not perfect.

💛 You’re allowed to be happy without feeling guilty.

💛 You’re allowed to take up space in your own life not just as the strong one, but as the whole one.

Be strong, yes. But don’t forget to also be here.

To laugh when something is funny.

To dance when the music feels right.

To say thank you when your heart swells.

To cry, if that’s what clears the clouds.

Because today is not just a bridge to tomorrow.

Today is your life, happening now.

So breathe it in.

Live in it.

Choose in small, sacred ways to be happy here.

Even if it’s just for a moment.

That moment counts.

Dee🏋️‍♀️😊