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How to Have an Instagram Account and Maintain Your Sanity

Let's be honest. This little app can easily consume our every spare moment if we let it. It is designed to be highly addictive and to keep you consuming its content for as long as possible which ultimately results in more advertising dollars for Facebook (which has owned Instagram since…

WonderfullyMadeSeptember 22, 2018

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Something We Need to Talk About: National Suicide Prevention Week

By Allie Marie Smith Photo by Chlesea Steller September 9th - 15th, 2018 is Suicide Prevention Week. When it comes to dark days and nights I get it. I never wanted to die, but I wanted the agonizing pain to end. Part of major depression at its worst is believing…

WonderfullyMadeSeptember 9, 2018

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Unexpected Beauty

By Aimee Piersma Photography by Allie Marie Smith All this rain is worth it when I see a rainbow. This morning I made sure my girls saw it. Birdie glimpsed it before she ran off to class. Jellybean had more time. She said with awe, “That’s the first real rainbow…

WonderfullyMadeAugust 22, 2018

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Intentional Swiping: Navigating Dating Apps

By Arielle Estoria I want to meet him while reading a book in the corner of a coffee shop somewhere. Or maybe we’ll unexpectedly brush shoulders as we both enter onto a subway car and an Adele soundtrack will be playing in the background. .As the slow song begins to…

WonderfullyMadeAugust 14, 2018

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How to Talk with Your Friend or Daughter about Suicide

If you joined me for Part 1, you heard some of my story while also learning that our brains can heal despite any traumas we’ve suffered. I love that hope is real and healing is possible. Today I’m giving you specific ways to lead someone you love through the maze…

WonderfullyMadeAugust 10, 2018

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Opening the Conversation about Suicide

By Dr. Michelle Watson I’m so honored that you’re here for Part 1 of a two-part series. These two blogs are designed to help you navigate this delicate, yet intense topic should you find yourself walking this journey with a hurting friend or a struggling daughter. I trust that my…

WonderfullyMadeAugust 1, 2018

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Beauty and Purpose In the Waiting

By Arielle Estoria || There is something about this season that is just as frustrating as it is beautiful. It is the point in our lives where we decide to either sit and twiddle our thumbs waiting for someone to come along and give our lives purpose and excitement or…

WonderfullyMadeJuly 17, 2018

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Why You Don’t Need to Post Swimsuit or Lingerie Photos to be Body-Positive

There's quite a body-positive movement on social media these days. Girls and women of all shapes, sizes and colors are posting swimsuit or lingerie photos of themselves and in the captions, sharing about their relationship with their body image in the name of body-positivity. It is a beautiful sight to…

WonderfullyMadeJuly 3, 2018

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Spring Essentials

Featured Image by Jones Design Company By Angelina Rozhko I love Spring! Everything is budding, blooming, or in full bloom, letting out a fragrant aroma of the earth coming to life after a cold Winter. With the wintery frost melting away, the sun shining a little brighter and the temperatures…

WonderfullyMadeApril 9, 2017

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Season of Romance

Hey Ladies! Check out this post by Asia Major-Waithe who was willing to share her story about God drawing her into Him in a deeper way as her Bridegroom and Husband. Valentine’s Day might be over, but our relationship with God can continually grow deep, even as single ladies! By:…

WonderfullyMadeFebruary 15, 2017