#selflove – Being AB

014 Delete it All

If you know you know. Sometimes the reset you need is to be alone with yourself.

I recently deleted all my socials, cleared out my messages, and call log. Everything being gone was refreshing on its own. I don’t know if my phone has been this cleared since 2012 when I got my first iPhone.

Then the real sets in. Your fingers are program to click that app, write that person. And when you’re left with yourself. Alone sets in.

You may not need this extreme of a reset but maybe you need a little more time to focus on yourself this week.

I challenge you to have at least one hour with no phone calls, text or social media to be with yourself. Complete the task that you keep putting off. Have an hour of self care. Try for one hour to “delete it all.”

Let me know how your time for your feels.

Xx Ande Mari

005 – Mountain Top View

Does your mind have a mountain top view?

Sometimes in life it’s hard to maintain a positive attitude and outlook when we have no view of our future. While driving to visit my best friend in Nashville I saw this ginormous brick house on the top of a mountain. I immediately began to wonder what it was like to live there and have that incredible view every day. The owners have a view of everything below and for miles around their home.

The idea of this view made me really think of what it’s like for us in the valley. Seeing that house brought me a sense of inspiration and light. Yet, sometimes in life we’re in a valley and everything around us is hard and we can’t quite see the beauty of the future, or even the now. Work, family, friends, health, and even love is just not going the way we planned. What do you do? As I continued to drive through the lush trees in this valley I pondered, what if during that time that we are low we had a mountain top view mentality? A mentality that sees the positives and chooses to stay on the optimistic side of any situation.

After what the year 2020 gave us, I know this is harder said then done. But, join me from your mountain top view for this week. Remind yourself of all you have, your dreams, and the possibilities of the future. If you get afraid of the view or find yourself slipping into a valley. Read one of these quotes!

🥂To a mountain top view this week (and for life)!

Let me know how your mindset shift changes this week, and a quote that helped you through!

XX Ande Mari

001 – The BE of it All

Have you ever been told to define yourself? The older I get the more I find society, people and life just seem to try to put me in a box. With getting older I have decided to break that. This year I am going to BE everything and nothing if I want. BE creative, BE self-aware, BE a student and an educator, BE a writer, BE uninspired, BE multicultural, BE tired, BE me! I don’t have to be one thing to fit in to anyone’s box. And with this newfound grace and growth mind set, I have a different outlook. What better way to share the journey then to bring you along for the ride?

So welcome to Being Ande Mari. Here is my lifestyle blog where I will share parts of my BEing with you. Join me, it is going to BE MAGICAL!

XX Ande Mari