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September 2024

Happy September!! In this month’s reset video, I’m also discussing some goals I have for Fall that are FUN goals and not just checklist goals! For example, I want to make candy apples this year! Fall is such a great time to reset for the last quarter of 2024 and I have been participating in The Every Girl’s September Syllabus challenge and LOVING it so far. I had no idea September was such a transformative month until deep diving into this fun month long project to reset, refresh, and get excited for cozy season!

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Books I read last month:

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  • Radical acceptance by Tara Brach

    • Rated 3/5 stars- “Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s forty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students. I really had to force myself to finish this one. there are great mindsets in this book and I think it helped me out a little but I thought it was too focused on case studies and not on what I can do right now besides the meditations.

  • Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    • Rated 4/5 stars- After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life. But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.The truth is out there, if we just listen. I enjoyed this one a lot and no I certainly did not see the ending coming! I changed my opinion on “who did it” multiple times through the book but it honestly was a little slower to get into than I hoped.

  • The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

    • Rated 5/5 stars- Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she's feeling bored and restless.Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie's curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers.When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spiraling out of control. Absolutely riveting and SHOCKING the entire time! I was hooked from the first paragraph of this book and spent most of my days wanting to pick up and read. I loved the authors descriptions and the way she writes and the storyline of course is just amazing. Highly recommend this one!

  • The Wedding Game by Megan Quinn

    • Rated 3/5 stars- Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius—she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a “do-it-yourself” TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert. As a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding. Both fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along… This is your typical rom com and I found it cute, and fun to read, but not something I was necessarily excited to reach for and keep reading.

August 2024