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Must-Have Bedroom Essential: QuickZip Sheets
New sheets are an essential part of your Fresh Start and we’re huge fans of taking the stress and friction out of your life with Quickzip Sheets! Quickzip Sheets make changing the sheets stress-free, folding fun, and mixing and matching sheets adds a touch of creative flair. Check out why we’re such big fans of QuickZip Sheets.
10 Tips for Surviving the Holidays as a Single Parent
Navigating life as a single-parent can sometimes be a wild ride, and this is especially true during the holiday season! We asked our divorce coaches for their tips for surviving and thriving during the holidays season as a single parent. Click through for 10 tips for surviving the holiday season as a single mom or single dad.
Tap For: Courage, Inner Peace, and Strength
Sometimes, when we’re in an anxiety spiral, we need to take a step back from our own mind and break the spell of panic - the Tap For collection encourages people to quite physically tap their heart to remind them of their courage, strength, and inner peace. Which one would you buy?
5 Holiday Gifts for Your Friend Who Just Moved
Did you know research has shown that moving can be even more stressful than divorce? It’s true. However, here are Fresh Starts, we always see moving as a moment for re-birth, even if it is super stressful! Whether you’re moving out for the first time, moving across the world, moving out from a breakup, or moving into a new apartment, we’re here to help you on your journey, and we’re sure you have a friend or two who has just moved on your holiday gift list this year.
5 Holiday Gifts for Your Broken Hearted Friend
Did you know December 11th is the most common day of the year for couples to break up? It's true - the month of December is not a great one for couples, in fact, it's the most common month for breakups! So...what does this mean for the holiday season? It means you may have a lot of broken-hearted friends on your holiday shopping list this year. What do you gift to someone who just had their heart broken? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Check out our 5 gift ideas for the broken-hearted person in your life.
A Cozy Playlist for Winter
There is truly nothing we love more than snuggling up with a good book and cup of cocoa during the winter (yes, this counts even if you live on the West Coast!). The only thing that would make it better? A Cozy Playlist, of course! We curated this 45 minute long playlist to give you a peaceful break during the day. Chock full of old and new faves, it’s the perfect way to warm up and zone out.
What We’re Listening To: Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin, Losing My Best Friend
We’re big fans of Esther Perel’s podcast Where Should We Begin, and the episode “Losing My Best Friend,” really touched home and made us think. In this episode, Esther Perel chats with a woman who feels like she is losing her best friend and feels as though her best friend is rushing into a marriage with someone she doesn’t necessarily agree with. During their call, Esther talks her. through a new way to see their relationship and where to go from here.
5 Books That Do Not Suck for Families Going Through a Divorce
When going through a major family change like a divorce, it’s really important to find books to share with your kids that reflect families like theirs; we rounded up 5 children's books for families going through a divorce that are empowering and encouraging for the whole family going through the divorce.
5 Holiday Gifts for Anyone Going Through a Divorce
It can be tough to get through the holidays during a divorce, but we've got five great gifts that might help make things a little easier...so everyone gets something this holiday season (even if they're feeling Grinchy)!
Must-Have Kitchen Essentials If You Live By Yourself
We've rounded up the must-have kitchen items to keep on hand if you live by yourself. Save time and money with these handy appliances, utensils, and gadgets!
A Mirror to Help Your Fresh Start
Sometimes the simple act of looking at yourself in the mirror can help you find your way back to yourself. Olivia shares about her gold mirror journey and 4 mirrors for your Fresh Start.
5 Essential Bedroom + Bathroom Items for Your Fresh Start
We rounded up 5 essential bedroom and bathroom must-haves for your Fresh Start. Whether it's post-divorce, breakup, coming out, moving on, or simply a new life journey.
Learning to Love Music After a Breakup (or how I fell back in love with bluegrass music again)
What happens to the soundtrack of your life when you breakup or divorce the person you shared it with? Here’s Olivia’s story of finding her way back to bluegrass music and why we believe music is a part of your healing process.
5 Quotes for Your Fresh Start
Are you ready for a Fresh Start? Here are 5 quotes about starting over and beginning again to inspire you on your new journey.
Mindless Reality Shows for When You Need to Zone the Eff Out
Need to escape for a few hours? We rounded up our favorite reality competition TV shows for those times when you need to zone out and distract yourself. Nothing about romance or home-buying here, though! Food fun and nostalgia TV all the way.
5 Tweets to Inspire You This Week
It’s been a long week, check out the 5 Tweets to help inspire you to live your best life this week.
5 Shows To Binge When You Can’t Imagine How To Sleep
You’re in the early days of your fresh start and the idea of closing your eyes and you know- thinking thoughts, is way, way too horrifying (been there, sis). You need a companion- not a person, but a show. You need a show you can binge.
5 Tweets For Your Fresh Start
Tweets are the new mantras. We’re rounding up our top 5 weekly Tweets to inspire us on our Fresh Starts journey.
How to Help: 5 Useful Things To Say
Raise your hand if you’ve had to suffer through some frustratingly NOT USEFUL well meaning folks have said to you during your fresh start.