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Melissa Camilleri

Embracing the Hardness of Motherhood & Life Transitions

Embracing the Hardness of Motherhood & Life Transitions

By: Melissa Wert Guest Blogger to Compliment. I remember always hearing about how hard marriage and motherhood is. How difficult it is to put another being ahead of your own wants and needs. How easy it is to lose yourself in roles, that by their very definition, are defined by someone else. How painful it can be to transition from an individual to a unit, and all that comes with that change. And all of that is true. But there is more. There is beautifully more to hardness than difficulty and loss and pain. A few weeks ago, my husband and...

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Melissa Camilleri

How to Raise Tolerant Children: Religious Diversity in a Modern World

How to Raise Tolerant Children: Religious Diversity in a Modern World

By: Laurel Nakai, writer, and singer-songwriter. Guest Blogger to Compliment. The world is more interconnected than ever before. We have access to information, other cultures and people like never before. This is a wonderful thing, but it’s not always easy to navigate the clashes that this interconnectivity brings. Most of us want to live in a society of peace and understanding, yet we only have to turn on the news or walk out our front door, to see that those ideals are hard to put into practice. Diversity is an important part of a modern day society. When most people talk...

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Melissa Camilleri

Self Care is Not Selfish

Self Care is Not Selfish

By: Tami Hackbarth, Founder of the 100 Women Project Guest Blogger to Compliment. Self-care is selfish. How many of us have heard that we have put others ahead of ourselves in order to be a good person?   I am here to tell a different story - one where every person in the family gets to have their needs met, where we are only as strong as our weakest member and, as is the Compliment trademark-- we all rise by lifting others ®.   As a 100% Guilt-Free Self-Care Coach and founder of the 100 Women Project. I teach women to drop...

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Melissa Camilleri

Talking Galentine's Day on Good Day

Talking Galentine's Day on Good Day

It's always a fun time when I get to chat with Cambi Brown of Good Day Sacramento!  Our plan was to hand out compliments to people strolling through the normally busy McKinley Park, but it was so dang cold, not that many people were out!  So we chatted about fun gift ideas for the ladies and surprised a few runners passing by, instead. :) Watch for an extra-special discount code that Cambi mentions at the end of the spot P.S.--Nikki Stern and I recently launched our Podcast.  You can listen to the first episode of the Pay Attention Podcast here...

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