As we shift into the end of the year we start to reflect on the old ways of what was and start to embrace the new version of what will be. I feel that when a New Year starts we go through 3 stages. The first stage is setting our "Goals and Intentions". Creating a new to do list along with deadlines for ourselves. We decide to start doing the things we never got to experience the previous year or ever and then we set a game plan to turn…

When you think of the word FAMILY what is the first thing that comes to your mind? For me its my mom-mom's home cooked italian meals mixed with vacations to the beach and long summer nights while sipping iced tea on my mom-mom's porch in my bare feet while catching firefly's. Growing up an only child and raised mostly by a single parent which was my mom. I started to realize as I got older that family isn't only just blood relation that family can also be friends, animals, spirit…