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Senses & Sensuality: Part 2 - Touch

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Senses & Sensuality: Part 2 - Touch

We have now reached part two of our three-part series focusing on our five basic senses and their relation to our emotions, moods and memories! We hope this series gives you greater awareness and power to use your senses to enhance your everyday life.

This post will cover the complex sense of touch and its relation to communication.

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Senses & Sensuality: Part 1 - Smell and Taste

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Senses & Sensuality: Part 1 - Smell and Taste

Your senses are constantly processing information and who you intrinsically are as a person is deeply related to your experiences with them.

Our next three blog posts will focus on our five basic senses and their relation to our emotions, moods and memories with the goal of giving you a greater awareness and power to use your senses to enhance your everyday life.

This post will cover the two highly corelated senses of smell and taste.

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What Makes a Candle "Clean" or "Dirty" and Why it's More Complex Than You Think

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What Makes a Candle "Clean" or "Dirty" and Why it's More Complex Than You Think

If you're into candles, (and probably even if you're not), you've likely come across the expressions "clean burning" and "dirty burning." They've joined the ranks of identifiers such as sustainable, eco-friendly, green, zero waste, etc. But what do they really mean? It turns out, (like many of these trendy terms) it's not as black and white as you may think.

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The worst relationship advice circulating the internet

Warning, this is a bit of a rant, but I promise it all comes together in the end :) Ok... I just have to tell you about this because it drove me BONKERS when I read it and have since seen many similar blog posts making the rounds. I was scrolling through Pinterest recently looking for relationship tips and ideas for my blog and other posts. I was aiming for things along the lines of intimate questions to ask your partner, couples massage techniques, date ideas, etc. Then I happened across a post titled "How to Make Your Man Constantly...

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5 Quick & Easy Ways to De-Stress Anytime, Anywhere

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5 Quick & Easy Ways to De-Stress Anytime, Anywhere

No matter what we've been conditioned to believe, the holidays are not about hustle and gifts. They're about love - both sharing it and feeling it, which can be nearly impossible to do when you're burnt out, stressed and tired.

But I also understand it can be impossible to completely slow down this time of year. So I've collected 5 of my favorite ways to relax anytime, anywhere.

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