Welcome to the New Live Well Be Fabulous
Well hello, Agents of Fabulosity! I know it has been a while since my last post and apologize for the lengthy absence. However, I’ve been busy working behind the scenes with my crew to bring you this updated and sleek new website for Live Well Be Fabulous.
There’s no mistaking that 2020 has been one of the worst years of all our lives. And the reason behind the madness needs no introduction from me, right? Along with the disease that must not be named came a great deal of grief, misfortune in the job force, loss of many great legends who were absolute role models, and an election that has the citizens of the U.S. sitting on the edge of our seats in anticipation of the outcome.
My household was devastated earlier this year when my mom suddenly got ill and passed away. And my aunt soon followed 30 days later. My family was rocked to the core. We did not expect to lose my mom. Since she was in a nursing home, we couldn’t even hold her hand in her final moments of life. This pain and grief still hurt beyond words. I can only imagine what my mother who suffered from dementia felt as she couldn’t understand what the nurses were saying about the disease that ravaged the world gripped us all with icy claws.
While I don’t want to go into the specifics of what happened in this article, I do want to help you understand part of the reason behind my sudden disappearance from posting on the blog. After going through such a terrible experience, I found the desire to keep posting about shoes and clothing and happiness a bit more difficult to conjure let alone maintain. Yet, an amazing thing happened during those months after I lost my mom. I found my muse hiding inside my head. She had been there all along. Countless letters and DMs from my friends sparked her curiosity once again. She decided that life wasn’t a lost cause after all. People still need to hear this voice. They still need our inspiration to help lift their spirits from the pit of isolation and fear.
Fast forward to a brand new blog design and several months later, I’m writing this personal note to you all. You see, life hasn’t been a total disaster this year. Not by far. I’ve chosen to refocus my attention on the good things happening behind the scenes. There are many. In turn, my muse woke up and ignited the fire in my fingers and heart, those things I lost in the fire called 2020. The time to come out of hiding had come. I no longer choose to give 2020 power over my destiny. I still believe that this decade will be one of the greatest periods of my life. I must hold on to hope. It cannot rain all the time. You know how that classic saying goes.
You can do the same. Choose to focus on the positivity surrounding your life. I promise there’s quite a bit of it still lingering out there. Work on purging negative thoughts and actions from your life. I did. Yes, it was difficult to do so but in the end, the results were worth every bit of the effort I made. I choose to help others continue to conquer their lives the way I’m doing.
Which brings me back to the title of this article. I’ve combined the four most important aspects of my life into this blog, a six almost seven-year journey of a single mom turned successful blogger, author, and interior designer. Fashion, travel, home decor, and mindfulness aka meditation. This fortune did not happen overnight, of course. There’s no such monster unless you’re a royal which most of us are not. Live Well Be Fabulous almost didn’t make it through this storm of 2020. Yet, here I am sharing its brand new design and focus with you today. My little lifestyle blog has blossomed into a beautiful pre-teen and I didn’t even see it coming until she was there.
You helped me reach this point. All your support on social media and your comments and DMs came through for me. Now let me work the same magic for you.
