Lifestyle
Getting the Guest Room Ready
Holiday season is right around the corner and that means it’s also hosting season! Lots of us welcome family or friends from out of town to celebrate special holidays this time of year. But between the cooking, decorating, and last-minute gift buying, it’s easy to overlook one important detail–where your guests will sleep! Whether you’re […]
The Cozy Commute Home: How to Transition from Work to Rest Mode
The emails have been sent. Your laptop is shut. The Slack pings have gone mercifully silent. Technically, the workday is over, but your brain hasn’t gotten the memo. You’re still mentally editing tomorrow’s to-do list, still replaying that one awkward meeting, still hovering somewhere between productivity and paralysis. If you’ve ever felt like it takes […]
Cozymaxxing for the Holidays
Comfort Is: Cozymaxxing for the Holidays Why do we emotionally hibernate during the winter months? At a certain point — somewhere between the sun setting at 4:30 in the afternoon and your third rewatch of When Harry Met Sally — you give in. Not in a sad, defeatist way, but in a deeply satisfying, cellular-level […]
Siblings Room Sharing? What Parents Need to Know!
The addition of a new sibling is a huge transition for all family members but especially siblings. It’s another person to share their parents’ attention with and a change to their familiar setup at home. There are many differing views as to the right age gap between siblings. Many suggest a small age gap believing […]
Holiday Guest Room Prep
Comfort Is: A Cozy Guest Room How to create a comfortable, welcoming space for holiday guests this season. It’s that time again, the season of overlapping calendar invites, rogue tinsel, menorahs in windows, Diwali lights still twinkling, and Mariah hitting that high note in every public space imaginable. Nearly 65 percent of the country plans […]
The Witching Hour Is Real: What Happens in Your Body Between 3–4 a.m.
Something happens when we all turn our lights off, pull up our covers, and drift off to sleep. Darkness descends amongst us, and the night comes alive. The time between midnight and 4 a.m. is when some may feel everything slows down, the noise of the day fades, and the world stands still. For those […]
Sleep Paralysis: The Spookiest Sleep Phenomenon Explained
When I first learned that our bodies become temporarily paralyzed when we cycle into REM sleep and dreamland, I’m not going to lie, I was a little frightened by this idea. Don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween and all things spooky, but this wasn’t something I was into, I mean, who would be? Fears […]
Spooky Stress: Why We Love Being Scared (and How to Calm Down After)
There’s something undeniably strange about spooky season. We’ll spend all year avoiding things that make our hearts race, then October rolls around and we willingly line up for haunted houses, binge true crime in the dark, and pay good money to feel our pulse spike. Why? Because fear, when it’s safe, is its own kind […]