New Year, New Me | Self Care Shopping Guide
The best self care gifts for your new year
By Carla Snuggs
2020 has been a challenge to say the least. As we look forward to the new year, it’s so important to take time to care for ourselves both inside and out. It is important to be intentional with our words, our actions and to spend time nurturing ourselves as best we can so that we can be of service to others and live in our purpose. I have curated some of my favorite and some of the best products and services to help you pamper, heal and protect yourself in the coming year. Enjoy!
Gratitude Soapery Gracious Face Mask + Guided Meditation
A Nourishing Mask + Guided Meditation: When Gratitude Soapery set out to create a face mask, they knew it had to do something more than nourish your face. The experience should also nourish your soul. That’s why in addition to a mask full of good-for-your-skin ingredients, they include a good-for-your-soul meditation with every order. Meet Gracious: French pink clay, the gentlest of clays, combined with botanicals include rose hip powder and hibiscus. A pink mask packed with ingredients rich in vitamin C and antioxidants to improve the appearance of tired skin, reduce the appearance of aging and bring out your natural glow.
Shop: Gratitudesoapery.com
Awaken Blessings of Inner Love by Denise Turney
Awaken to your true, great Self now! Discover daily self-love practices to grow your confidence, open to inner vision and start living your best life! Shop: Amazon.com
Sweet Bee Organics Sweet Dreams Bundle
If you or your children have trouble sleeping (and consequently wake you up in the middle of the night), this is the BEST gift to yourself. The Sweet Little Detox Bath mix is handmade with the world's best detoxifying clays, magnesium, organic lavender and bicarb (to purify your water). Sweet Sleep Magnesium Butter can simply be rubbed into the bottom of your feet (or your child's) to help you drift into a blissful, deep sleep. Shop: Sweetbeeorganics.com
Sprayology Stress Relief
Fast, effective yet gentle vegan formula provides relief when you are feeling stressed, anxious or nervous. Gluten & Lactose Free. Shop: Sprayology.com
Soigné Accessories
Treat yourself to handmade luxury accessories! Shop Soigné online or pop into their Boston location on Newbury Street.
Weed Mom: The Canna-Curious Woman's Guide to Healthier Relaxation, Happier Parenting, and Chilling TF Out (Ulysses Press, 2020)
by Danielle Simone Brand
Weed Mom guides readers through all they need to know about responsible cannabis use—including how to decode the legal cannabis marketplace and consume to enhance their productivity, self-care, and sex lives. Author Danielle Simone Brand also dives into the important conversations about cannabis that moms need to be having with kids, partners, friends, and parents. Weed Mom is the essential guide for both canna-curious and longtime “weed moms” who are breaking down the stigma of cannabis and parenting to create a modern culture all their own.
Not Only Pants NOP Tie Dye Set
Not Only Pants is on a mission to change the way women feel about their body, one pair of leggings at a time. After suffering a severe spine injury from a car crash, founder Monica Delgado found hope in a pair of leggings and set out to combine functionality with fashion and comfort. Whether women are running errands, running a meeting, or running at the gym, NOP helps them radiate confidence and embrace all of their body—stretch marks, dimples, cellulitis, excess fat, and scars included.
The Body of 9: Decode Your Natural Physiology and Discover Your True Self by Susan Bennet Fisher and Martin Fisher
A handbook for self-discovery in 2021! The Body of 9 is a comprehensive guide to a new understanding of your personal identity. Learn more about the nine regions in the body that have a direct impact on the way we experience life.
Cynthia Rowland Facial Magic Facial Exercise System
Keep your beautiful face with results that can last forever when you choose Facial Magic® facial exercises to lift, tone and tighten your facial muscles. In just minutes a day, your facial features can look years younger. Maintain your beauty and reverse the look of aging. Use Code POSH for a 25% discount! Shop: Cynthiarowland.com
MealPro
MealPro uses technology on its ecommerce platform to create highly customizable meals made by seasoned chefs, delivering restaurant-quality, meals at an affordable cost, with or without a subscription. MealPro's mission is to enable everybody to “eat with purpose,” and help them achieve their dietary objectives through extensive customization of each meal selection. Shop: Mealpro.net
Wellfounded Botanicals
Wellfounded Botanicals is a luxury lifestyle brand offering customized therapy in three distinct CBD:THC ratios crafted for restoration, relief, or relaxation. Wellfounded products are formulated with green tea, spirulina, and activated charcoal - its precise dosing makes it easy for you to take exactly what your body needs, whether it’s for therapeutic, medicinal, or recreational use. Will be available in California. Shop: Wellfounded.com
SPERO CBD Peppermint CBD Tincture
Spread the holiday chill this season with SPERO, a pure CBD line that uses non-GMO, organically produced hemp, and harvested only from farms in the USA for sustainably made products you can trust. Their full product offering contains 0% TCH and has zero impurities by taking under the tongue with a pre-measured dropper for full control over your dose whether at home or on the go. The best part? It tastes AMAZING and gives you no cloudy high! Product is rigorously tested for potency, pesticides, microbials, heavy metals and solvents, and then tested AGAIN with a third party for total assurance, so you get all of the good stuff and none of the bad. Fast-acting CBD tinctures with a delicious taste. $64.95 on SPEROCBD.com
Zazubean
The key to anyone’s heart this holiday season? CHOCOLATE! Zazubean is a chocolate brand that stands for promoting an ethical and sustainable balance while striving to conserve biodiversity, foster the cycling of resources, and making certain that their chocolate would never subject itself to any GMO’s or non-organic modalities throughout the entire production process. Zazubean is a 100% organic, vegan, gluten and soy free, kosher, divinely tasty CHOCOLATE brand .The brand carries a collection of decadent, smooth, healthy chocolates with NO added sugar or 1/2 added sugar that are sure to hit your taste buds! While all Zazubean chocolate is produced in Switzerland, every ingredient is sourced using 100% FairTrade standards from small farmers in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Indonesia, and Panama—supporting local, small business is the brand’s priority. It’s good for the GROWER, good for the PLANET, and most importantly good for YOU! Shop: Zazubean.com
Zuma Nutrition Relaxation Blend
Did you know that adaptogenic herbs can improve your mood and reduce stress in the body and mind? To help support your health and well-being while working from home, this doctor formulated relaxation blend can be added to your drink of choice (tea, coffee, water) as an effective aid in supporting a relaxed body and mind. This blend is perfect gift to give this holiday season for anyone who is feeling the holiday stress or needs to take a moment for themselves! Adaptogenic herbs work at a molecular level by regulating a stable balance in the hypothalamic, pituitary, and adrenal glands—all of which are involved in the stress response. Essentially, they work by “hacking” the stress response in the body. Shop: ZumaNutrition.com
"Meditation Illuminated: Simple Ways to Manage Your Busy Mind." By Joy Rains
The paperback book presents meditation so that it's accessible for beginners. It’s an easy read and the perfect book for those interested in self-care and wellness. (And affordable at only $15.00.)
Shop: Joyrains.com
Custom Essential oil BLend
Give the gift of personal wellness with a personalized blend of essential oils customized to the needs of your mind and body! The lucky recipient will receive an email with a quiz and be connected to their very own aromatherapist to help answer questions and formulate the right blend, which will arrive within a week with their name on it. Smell the difference! Shop: 21drops.com
MyNetDiary
MyNetDiary (Mynetdiary.com) is one of the original online and mobile (iOS, Android) calorie and exercise trackers with over 11.5 million members worldwide. Seeing a big spike during COVID with more people than ever turning to tech to track their way to shape, MyNetDiary is the perfect COVID-era gift as we reshape how we consume. Registered dietitians supporting users through tips and recipes and the App covers all aspects of following a sustainable diet from planning to tracking and results analysis. By offering healthy and scientifically-proven approaches to weight loss, MyNetDiary’s average active member loses 1.4 pounds a week. While core functions such as calorie counting, daily analysis and tips from an in-house team of Registered Dietitians are available for free, Premium membership features wearable tracker integrations along with specialized diets - from Keto and Low-Carb to Vegan and Vegetarian - along with over 300 new and easy recipes. Premium Membership can be activated for just $8.99/month or $59.99/year. If you want to give the gift of health this holiday season, you can purchase a gift subscription here: Mynetdiary.com
NYSSA's VieWear™
VieWear™ was created with input from OB-GYNs and Pelvic Floor Therapists to give you the additional comfort you need when experiencing period pain, endometriosis flare-ups, pelvic or abdominal surgery, fertility treatments, IUD insertion or removal, and more. The front interior opening allows for the insertion and placement of an ice/pack (up to 5" wide) anywhere within the garment, depending on your pain relief needs. Place over the abdominal area and hips, or slide down into the vaginal/perineal area. The back interior opening makes it easy for you to place an ice/heat pack over your lower back, which is particularly helpful when experiencing period cramping or endometriosis symptoms. VieWear™ features proprietary pocket openings in the front and back to enable easy insertion of an ice/heat pack directly into the garment. Shop: Nyssacare.com
Confidence & MindsetCoach (Lorna Smith)
I'm Lorna, certified Confidence & Mindset Life Coach, NLP Practitioner and Founder of EsTeam Coaching.
I help women to create a life they’re excited to wake up for every day. Supporting them to transform from overwhelm, self-doubt or just feeling stuck to having inner confidence and clarity to tackle life head on.
If you're feeling overwhelmed or lost in life, I can help you to feel more confident and fulfilled. It's not always easy to talk to family and friends about your struggles and you may not even understand it yourself. I get it, that was me once.
That's where I come in. Through my 1-2-1 bespoke coaching, I can help you to explore and process your thoughts, feelings and challenges openly and with no judgement. Providing a safe, supportive and guided environment and using proven methods and techniques. I will support you to identify and overcome your limiting beliefs and to rapidly transform to be your best self, to live the life you desire.
If you think you could benefit from some extra support, please do contact me or book a free taster session via my website and we can jump on a call for an informal chat. Learn more Sites.google.com
Voodoo's Limited Edition 'Self Love Supplies' Kit
Give a gift that keeps on giving this holiday season. Treat yourself or someone you care about with Voodoo's Limited Edition Self Love Supplies pleasure kit! Packaged in a fun and chic gift box ready for gifting. The kit is designed for you to experience a range of Voodoo Toys' best selling products.
The Kit includes over $80.00 worth of value bundled into one gorgeous gift box including: Voodoo's Money Bunny Rabbit Vibrator, Voodoo's Classic 7-inch Vibe and an 8Oz water-based lubricant designed to nourish your body with body-safe ingredients. Use the discount oral33 at checkout anytime and get 33% off Shop: Shop.voodoo.toys
MamaZen
MamaZen, founded by prominent Los Angeles certified hypnotherapist, MA, CHT, and expert in Mindfulness Meditation Jake Rubin, is the stress relief app for moms. It uses a combination of meditation, hypnotherapy and mindfulness to help ease the stress, fatigue, burnout and anxiety of parenting. The app houses over 150 brief audio sessions (5-15 min) covering common topics among moms - stress, anxiety, frustration, anger, guilt, health and diet, stage of childhood, and more.
For a gift, simply purchase as a gift from the app store.
For Apple: Apps.apple.com
For Android: Play.google.com
Not Unworthy Original T-shirt
Not Unworthy is a mental health clothing brand that gives you a voice, no matter what you're going through. Part of the Not Unworthy mental health clothing line, the Not Unworthy Original t-shirt tells your story. The story about your struggle with mental health and how sometimes, things can be really hard. With this t-shirt, Not Unworthy tells you that it's okay. That even at your lowest, you are still valid.That even when things seem insurmountable, you are not unworthy of love, friendship, and happiness.
The Not Unworthy Original t-shirt is comfortable, great quality, and available up to 4XL. Even better, the Original design is also available as sweatshirts and hoodies with different color options! You want even more? Not Unworthy offers free shipping on all their products. All the time.
Besides, when you shop for mental health clothing at Not Unworthy, you advocate for yourself. You believe that it's okay to not be okay and they support you 100%. That's why they donate part of their benefits to non profit organizations that spread mental health awareness and help the community.
33 Thousand Dates 1-Month Dating Plan: $399
33 Thousand Dates is an upscale coaching platform designed to help millennial and Gen X women and men navigate the online dating scene with a personalized and proactive approach. Andrea McGinty is America's premier dating expert and the founder of the iconic It’s Just Lunch matchmaking service where she set up over 33,000 dates before the rise of online dating. 33 Thousand Dates handles the heavy lifting of online dating so you can have all the fun while finding love!
Bite & Co. Lighten Up
The gut-skin connection is real, which is why we’ve made it easier to support our gut flora with Lighten Up’s key ingredient, Apple Cider Vinegar. ACV not only helps to flush out toxins from our body, but it can also reduce the secretion of our sebaceous glands-allowing you to keep your glow without looking oily. This gummy is the ideal go-to for those who love all of the benefits ACV has to offer, but find it hard to take their daily dose in liquid form (eek).This daily digest is formulated with Apple Cider Vinegar, nutrient-dense beetroot, B vitamins (B12 and B9, aka folic acid -- yes please), and Pomegranate to support gut flora, and balance the skin’s surface pH. Shop: Bitegummies.com
Body Wipes by Royal
Royal’s Body Wipes are fully flushable, biodegradable, vegan-friendly, fragrance free, and help support a healthy vaginal pH. Use them to freshen up pre- or post-sex or stash them in your gym bag. Pull out the wipe(s) you need, get yourself cleaned up and throw them away in the trash or down the toilet. Simple!
HydroJug
The HydroJug is designed to help you drink more and stay hydrated! It holds ½ gallon of water, so you won't be wasting your time re-filling your water bottle. The wide-mouth opening makes it easy for you to clean, add supplements, or ice. The plastic is BPA free and dishwasher safe, so you will always be drinking clean water. With the HydroJug there is nothing between you and crushing a gallon of water per day!
Leopard Sleeve V2: Their Sleeves are made from premium neoprene to help eliminate condensation and insulate your HydroJug. They also included a pocket for your cell phone (fits iPhone 11 plus size phones) as well as an accessory pocket for keys or headphones. Add your personal touch to your HydroJug and leave boring water bottles behind!
Omflow Gift Card
This holiday season, give the gift of breath with an Omflow Gift Card and share the practice of yoga online through live, interactive, personalized yoga experiences.
BootayBag
Treat yourself to BootayBag - a handpicked, monthly lingerie subscription, delivering affordable, stylish panties to your doorsteps once a month—truly the gift for yourself that keeps on giving! Refresh your undies drawer this new year. Customers can choose between different styles including Always Thong, Never Thong or Mix It Up, with the option of adding a matching bralette. The best part? Pricing starts at just $10/month! Shop: Bootaybag.com
Edens Garden’s Best Of The Best Set + Diffuser
Any wellness advocate would obsess over the Diamond Diffuser and ‘Best Of The Best Essential Oil’ set. This ultrasonic diffuser allows you to breathe in the natural benefits of aromatherapy that gives you an at-home spa experience, leaving an unparalleled aroma experience. With six all-stars single oils and synergy blends including, Anxiety Ease, Breathe Easier, Fighting Five, Lavender, Lemon and Peppermint, how could one say no?. Price: $99.95. Shop: Edensgarden.com
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