Hi, I'm Amanda Ragusa

I have great news! I completed the Stress Management course I signed up to take. It had been about two years of thinking about taking a...

Hello! Today I'm going to talk about awareness. What is awareness? How do you become more aware? Why do you want to be more aware? What...

It was about 8 years ago now that I was messaging a co-worker about my constant worrying and overthinking. It wasn't "normal" to be...

Wow! It's been a full month since my last post. All I can say is that I have so much hope for us all as we move deeper into this pandemic...

When you've lived with anxiety and the need to be "perfect" for years (~20 years), it takes patience and time to reprogram your brain to...

For me, I lived years and years (~13) of my life in high stress, thinking about and planning the future, sad about the past and how it...

My blogs will always have some type of mindset theme to them. I feel like the older I grow, the more personal development I do, the more...

A few weeks ago I locked myself out of the house. Like most mornings, I was rushing out the door to get to the office. I had my work bag,...

It's been a minute since my last blog post. At the beginning of the year, I set out to post a blog every Friday. For a couple months I...

Remember in a previous post I had mentioned that I am creating new, positive pathways in my brain? That it takes practice and time and...

Last week I talked to you about 'spiraling thoughts' and the method I use to reel it in before it drags me down the rabbit hole. Today, I...

Over the weekend, I realized something that I wanted to share with you. Saturday, I planned to have this really cool movie theater night...

Before writing this post, I asked myself, "If I write a pity party post, how can I make this informative without causing my readers to...

Well, my company began furloughing people this past week and as of right now will be going through the end of May. Awesome. This upcoming...

It's no secret that everyone in the world is a little on edge with the COVID-19 situation. I'd be lying to you if I said that I wasn't...

Last week I posted about going on vacation and how this time it was going to be different. I was going into this vacation with a totally...

Have you ever stopped and thought about all the things in your life that stresses you out? Is it all necessary? I used to stress out...