Category: Valentine’s Day

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What is Galentine’s Day?

What is Galentine’s Day? It is a new “holiday” or a  pseudo-holiday that falls on February 13. It is a day for women to celebrate the women in their life. The history of this pseudo-holiday is that it first started as fiction. Created by Leslie Knope a small town government employee from Parks and Recreation played by…
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Valentine Love Potions

Romantic occasions and champagne go hand-in-hand, but what if you don’t drink alcohol? Mocktails are the perfect solution! If you’re planning an amorous Valentine’s Day dinner, make a cherry or pomegranate-flavored “love potion.” Christen the non-alcoholic beverage with your favorite number, such as Love Potion #9, and you’ve got yourself a memorable mocktail that your…
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Celebrate You this Valentine

Valentine’s Day is all about love, but it isn’t just for lovers. Love is such a precious gift, we should celebrate it in all forms: familial love, philia love (aka, brotherly love), and, perhaps more importantly, self-love. So, if you are without a romantic partner this year, don’t mope. Be your own Valentine and practice…
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Mindful, Romantic Strawberry Roses

Strawberries are the essence of romance. So this Valentine’s day why not romance your partner with a bouquet of these delicious and healthy treats. Strawberries make a healthy Valentine’s Day dessert. Strawberries contain a range of nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, folic acid, potassium, riboflavin, and magnesium. They are very low in calories and…
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Tips for a Singles Valentine’s Day Party

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for couples—it’s a day to celebrate all types of love, including relationships with coworkers, neighbors, friends, and family. You don’t have to spend Valentine’s Day by yourself. With a few simple tips, you can throw a singles party for your crew. Over the years, many singles have celebrated anti-Valentine’s Day, alternatively…
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Showing Love On A Budget

Valentine’s Day can be a very expensive holiday. People shell out quite a bit of money to buy flowers, cards, and other little trinkets to show their loved ones that they care. But love isn’t about money, or at least it shouldn’t be. Meaningful acts of love don’t have to cost a thing and they…
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How To Create Romance In Your Life

Romance for many of us these days is a long-awaited dream or an intermittent gift we rarely experience in our busy lives. Whether you are single or married you must learn how to create romance in your life. This is a chronic problem of our time. Intimacy is an essential need of every human being…
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Love Prescription

The phrase, “Love is a drug,” has been proven true in a sense with research from Syracuse University. Oxytocin: the Cuddle Hormone According to researchers from Syracuse University, brain images of people in love resemble the brain of a person on cocaine. Love makes the brain produce several euphoric chemicals such as dopamine, adrenaline, and…
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How To Create Romance In Your Life

Romance for many of us these days is a long-awaited dream or an intermittent gift we rarely experience in our busy lives. Whether you are single or married you must learn how to create romance in your life. This is a chronic problem of our time. Intimacy is an essential need of every human being…
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Eat Chocolate: Valentine’s Superfood

Chocolate is not only incredibly tasty, but it is also wonderfully healthy to eat. This is why it is known as Valentine’s Superfood. All chocolate is healthy but the dark version of it is even healthier. For example, it is 70% higher in cocoa content. Also it contains less sugar than milk chocolate and as…
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