Make your home smell amazing while calming your senses with one easy recipe. Whether you suffer from anxiety, insomnia, or just enjoy a refreshing, all-natural aroma, this is a quick and easy project that provides great gifts. Essential oils can be mixed into my easy recipe to create a customizable pillow and room spray for just about anyone!
People in my community and circle are becoming more aware of the impact anxiety is having on our lives and bodies, I am seeing a larger dialogue about it. Maybe it's because I'm in a creative field and anxiety disorders tend to affect creative people more, or maybe people with anxiety tend to be more creative. Whichever the direction the circle goes, we are all sitting it in and looking around at each other with more acceptance, truth, and support in our eyes.
We are having a bigger conversation about what "anxiety" means. It doesn't mean that you are negative, or a pessimist, or a worrier, or are stressed. The anxiety I am talking about is the biochemical part of our body that tells us we are in danger. It wakes up our brains and sends adrenaline pumping through our veins so forcefully that even when we are DEAD TIRED, our bodies are alert and ready to take on the world. This can serve us in positive ways and it can harm us and take us down. When we empower ourselves with awareness, information, and support, we can create a more informed, positive relationship with anxiety. We can harness it to work for us, and we will notice when it is working against us.
We may not be able to cure or control it, but we can create the space and time and behavior patterns to engage ourselves in what will lead to a more free and comfortable life. I will always be working through my anxiety, and I've turned to resources and people to help me. One of the most impactful people who have helped me is Michaela Cullen, one of my best friends (bridesmaid and Godmother-style), and she happens to be an integral life coach who has worked with her own anxiety for most of her life.
In today's MACC video, we talk about 10 different ways you can empower yourself and start to have a healthier relationship with your anxiety.
10 TIPS
Your anxiety is just a part of you, it does not define you
Develop your relationship with anxiety through journaling
Anxiety is part of your biological chemical makeup
Create a support network (friends, family, therapists, coaches, etc.)
Stop Anxiety Now Kit by Dr. Eve A. Wood - Visualizations and meditations that are great to have on your phone to guide you through your anxiety and panic attacks in the moment. I travel with this all the time.
Abraham Hicks: The Law of Attraction - Teaches you how to move from fear based thinking into the feel good thought and how to attract more of that vibration from your mindset
Marianne Williamson - Podcasts, books... any and all. She discusses managing fear and moving through it into a space of love. I feel so much calmer after just listening to her voice or reading her books. The Course In Miracles is great also (this is the book she bases all of her teachings from).
Make a moon phase shirt, scarf, or any other fashion piece with this quick and easy DIY. Use a thrift store find or upcycle an old piece of clothing or to make this project cheap or even free! You can also create cool lunar wall art using a similar method as seen in Panda Head Blog. Yes, it is washable! Check out the tutorial for care instructions.
During the holiday season, we’re looking for festive decor and gifts to give. In today's MACC video, I show an easy animal DIY that accomplishes both! Create a winter woodland feel with these geometric animal designs on wood plaques.
Use the FREE PRINTABLE design below, or create your own geometric animal friends!
For my big All-Request August week on HGTV Handmade, I am bringing you all along with me as I undertake an office makeover. This is one of my favorite projects of all-time, and one that nearly took a month and my sanity. Join me along the journey and weigh in in the comments section of the video if you think it's a fail or success. Watch it H E R E!
In today's HGTV Handmade video, I show you how to make a tropical leaf table runner or place mats using faux leather. Here is my *free printable* to get you started making your own!
To use these, you can simply print them out as is, or open in Photoshop and resize.
In today's HGTV Handmade video, I show you how to make midcentury house art and cards using a template that I designed. You can download the template to your computer and re-size it for your project needs below. Before you do, please do check out the video and be sure to let me know what you think you will make with it in the comments section over on the YouTubes. I love hearing what YOU are up to.
I read somewhere recently that everything ebbs and flows, particularly creativity. With this being the case, those of us who work "in the creative" sometimes need to let it ebb a bit, so we can gather ourselves, breathe, and prepare for the flow. A welcome and balanced new cycle, a lovely space to be in, allowing some time to exist, to L I V E, to let life happen.
Thank you for your patience while I took apart in a self-imposed blogging break to ebb, to flow, to declutter the brain-space and gear up for a brand new year. To the new!
Make your own 3D geo paper tree with the help of these fools in today's HGTV Handmade DIY video. For the template below, just save it to your computer, adjust the size to your preference, and print on card stock.
Welcome to Nest! I am Meg Allan Cole, a DIY guru and lifestyle blogger who lives in Brooklyn, NY with my musician husband and rescue dogs. I have a YouTube channel where I show you how to make things for you + your home. See my videos by clicking the box above, scan my work below, or drop me a line megallan@gmail.com.
