Adela Told Me. . .

 Hi Friends! Hope you all are doing well today.  In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I would like to talk about the importance of mental health today. Now I am no professional in this area, I am simply a girl that has learned a lot about my own mental health over the past several years.   Let's address the elephant in the room... The stigma attached to mental health. This stigma doesn't exist in the Adela Told Me world. I completely believe that it is OK to not be OK. As I said above, I am no expert in this area so let me share some of my own experiences.  First up... Anxiety. Good ole anxiety. The truth is I didn't know I suffered from anxiety until I was an adult. Growing up I would often get stomach aches or if something stressful happened I would get the sudden urge to run. Like literally run, like Forrest Gump, right out of wherever I was. I learned later this was a reaction my body had to anxious feelings. I also learned not to own anxiety. I would ...

Hi Friends! Welcome back to another blog. I hope you had an amazing weekend.  A good friend of mine asked me how I balance work and home life and it got me thinking. So I decided to post about how I manage it.  Let me paint a picture of what my daily life looks like... I have a big girl job in which I manage a business and an entire team of people. It can be very stressful at times. So the boss babe card is full. I have a family, which consists of Mr. Adela Told Me and two school aged children. One of which is in sports, sometimes two at a time. So the mom card is full. To add to the fun, we have animals, property, a garden. Homemaker card is full. Oh yeah, then I decide to add in blogging again along with all of the social media platforms I use to promote myself. We live a very busy life between practices, games, school drop offs, dinners, home chores, lake days, etc. You get it, we're BUSY! I would love to tell you that life doesn't stress me out but that couldn't be fart...

 Hello Friends and welcome back! Today we are going to discuss a topic that I have discussed with many people in my life. The reactions I get from sharing this story are very similar... a lot of teary eyes, a lot of "Wow's" and a lot of "Atta girls". In my last two posts I touched on needing to take a break from blogging due to life circumstance. Let's dive into that topic, grab a snack because this could take a while.  Let's go back in time, I was well into my career, I was living in an great neighborhood, and I was in a long term "healthy" relationship. Life was good. Or so it seemed from the outside looking in. I bet for some of you reading, you picked up on the "healthy" relationship nugget of information I dropped there, didn't you? Now I do know a good bulk of my readers on a personal level, but I don't know all of you. So for those of you that lived this tale with me, you may have been there to pick me up when I couldn...

 Hello friends! Welcome back to another post. I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. This week I will share something that may seem silly to you.  When I decided to start blogging again, I did it because I wanted to have a place where I could connect with others to share the things I love. Blogging is more than a hobby for me, it's a form of journaling too. A place where I share my thoughts and allow myself to "brain dump". Over the last 8 years I was away, I always felt this fire burning inside of me to share my wild thoughts and ideas with the world. I shared the story featured in todays post with a major blog supporter/friend of mine and she thought it would be a great idea to share this with you all. So this post is dedicated to the lady I will refer to as "Miss K". Hey girl, hey! Thank you for your support! Here we go... You ever get your mind set on something you feel like you're 100% ready to jump in with both feet? Yeah, that was me a few months ...

Hello!  We’re baaaaack!!!!  After 8 years away, I have decided to take the plunge back into content creating and blogging.  Here we go... To my returning followers, Thank you all for your support and welcome back!! To my new followers, Thank you for joining me, let’s be friends!  Let me share a bit about myself… Hello! I’m Adela. I am a California girl. I am an 80’s baby. I’m am every bit of a Virgo. I do have a real life job that has nothing to do with the beauty industry or blogging. I have a family. I own 3 cats, which is an entire post of it’s own (or should I say own me?) I also have a very large tortoise. I love art and crafty things. The beach is my happy place. That is me in a nutshell, if you want to know more about me, comment below and I can do a Q&A soon.  Now for the backstory of Adela Told Me... I started Adela Told Me as a beauty blog in 2014, I posted 3 times a week until 2017. I stopped blogging then because I had a major shift in my life an...

Hi everyone, It feels so good to be back to Faithful Friday's. I thought it would be a good idea to share what's been going on with me over the past few months while I've been away. I'd love to tell you that I have been on vacation since then but that is not the case at all! Life has been super busy as it always is. Balancing work and home life can be hectic sometimes. I am one of those people that wants everything on a schedule and in order. When things are not that way I tend to get really anxious and overwhelmed. I was completely stressed out and one area of my life in particular was the culprit. The stress began taking a serious toll on my body and no one in my life, myself included was happy about it! I am in the process of re-evaluating the situation and am trying to be patient as I wait for a new door to open. I know some of you have been praying for me during this time and I can definitely feel the comfort of those prayers. Thank you all for that! One t...