The holidays can be merry and bright, or the days you look forward to the least. Either way, try these self-care strategies to stay cool, calm, and collected in times of stress and busyness. They’re proof that you can keep it simple.

When the winds of change blow, don’t build walls around your heart. Build windmills and let yourself go with the flow of the universe. Use these affirmations for change to embrace this season of your life, come what may. With more grace, hope, and wonder in your heart.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher. Read these quotes if you're ready to turn your pain into power, your mistakes into lessons, your doubt into hope. Remember, you can move past what you think your life is supposed to look like, and into the life that's waiting for you.

Losing a loved one teaches you some things… things you’d rather have learned another way, but here you are anyway. You learn that life goes on even while you wish you could pause and press rewind. You find love, even after everything. And it carries you and you do what you can. Mostly, you learn that it’s still your turn to live.

Need a little more flow and freedom? Tell yourself these things instead. That kind of *productive* self-talk will help you break down the walls, forgive yourself and grow forward from this place. You'll feel lighter.

A book can be a friend, a teacher, and a fountain of inspiration. Whatever it is you’re seeking, here are some of my favorite inspirational books to help you live the way you want to live. From one bookworm to another, enjoy.

The first way to move beyond the block of feeling stuck is to believe you have options. You do have options. This very moment, there’s an opportunity to choose another path, to believe in another way. Have the courage to greet this opportunity, or the next, with a hopeful heart, and have faith in the possibilities that have yet to manifest.

By repeating positive affirmations, you can manage stress in a healthy way. When you need some serious stress relief, turn to these affirmations. They'll help you believe in the magic and possibility of today. And in your own potential to change (that's everything).

Life is a sweet balance of give and take, effort and surrender, dark and light. A dance between making it happen and letting things be. If you want to celebrate being here, no matter what happens, read these spiritual quotes. They'll remind you that the truth of who you are is so much bigger than what happens.

If you’re hungry for joy and low on creativity, these short inspiring messages are for you. They'll help you trust in the future, believe in what's possible, embrace uncertainty, worry less, love more, and keep looking up.