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Welcome to Carie’s A Serene Life
Welcome! I’m so glad you decided to join me in finding out new and wonderful ways to add some more peace and serenity into our daily lives! A few years ago, I was so distracted running from one thing to the next, answering everyone’s demands on my time, and dealing with crisis after crisis that…
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Carie’s Healthier Rhubarb Cake Â
350° oven Cake Mix ½ cup applesauce 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 large eggs 1 ½ tsp. vanilla 1 ¼ cup whole wheat flour ¼ cup bran 2 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 1 cup Greek yogurt ¼ cup skim milk Crumb Topping ½ cup whole wheat flour 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/3…
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The Missing Piece (Peace)
So many people are running around through life thinking they have to do everything, know everything, be everything. Well, you don’t. You are meant to be YOU, not Sally or Latsha or Joe. No one can take your place from you, and you can’t take theirs. We are where we are because only we can…
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The Quickening of Spring
Spring is coming, and I can feel it in my heart and bones. Can you? The weather is changing, the sun is staying longer, and the rain smells more alive. The change of seasons has always been a miracle to me, especially spring. I want to spend every minute outside, soaking up the sun, my…
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A New Take on Confidence
Confidence isn’t something you have or don’t have. It’s something you build, day by day, experience by experience. Confidence, at its most basic, is really just the willingness to try. Try something new, meet someone new, have a new experience. The first time you try something you learn. The second time, you learn more. When…
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You Don’t Have To
You don’t have to. This phrase has been on my mind constantly in the last week. You don’t have to get so emotionally wound up. You don’t have to stress and sweat and angst over your job. You don’t have to try so hard in your relationship. You don’t have to hang on so hard. …
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7 Ways You Can Start NEW Every Day
You get to start new EVERY DAY. We all have people, events, and attitudes, that seem to follow us around throughout our days. For lack of a better term, I call it the ‘STUFF of life’. Stuff from yesterday, stuff that pops up in the present when we least expect it, and stuff for tomorrow…
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Perspectives: Accepting what IS
Many of life’s hardships come from our own attitudes. When we refuse to accept what is, and try to deny, change, or reject the events or realities of life, we create dissonance in ourselves and in the space around us, rippling out into the world and reflecting back to us more of the same. Like…
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12 lessons I learned from my cat
Don’t worry about being stepped on – get right in there and keep at it! Be curious! Just because you run crazy sometimes doesn’t mean you aren’t also serene and elegant! Everything – EVERYTHING – can be played with! Thorough grooming is worth the time. Naps are a wonderful extravagance you can indulge in whenever…
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Early to bed, Early to rise
When my children were small, they were up with the sun, and so, of course, I was too! It was awful at first. I had always considered myself a ‘night owl’, and staying up until the wee hours had been a long habit of mine. Soon, I gave in to the inevitable and began getting…
