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...

Today we're going to talk about music therapy and how it can support our mental and emotional health. One way we can calm down when we're...

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...

Back in 2019, I created a list of activities that I love to do. Each one had a positive effect on me with the same purpose - reduce...

Today I made cinnamon rolls for the first time from scratch! It was obviously more complex than braking open a tub of Pillsbury and place...

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...

Do you find yourself making lists of work you have to do each day only to get easily overwhelmed? This feeling may cause anxiety along...

I took a walk this afternoon. It was about 35* and snow on the ground. It wasn't super long but enough to get outside, increase the HR,...

Though the year was not what we expected, I hope we all close this chapter with more gratitude and moving more slowly and present. This...

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...

I did a thing this last week and I'm so excited about it! Ever since I became a health and fitness coach and began personal development,...

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...