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But First … Love Your Selfie!

The first and most important relationship we have is with ourselves. Self-love is sometimes the hardest to include in our life because we're always on the go and we spend so much of our time taking care of others. In the hyper focused social media world we live in, and that I personally love, we want to take pictures of everything ... Our food, drinks, loved ones, pets, sunshine, rain, shoes, clothes, trees; anything and everything but loving ourselves. But lately there is a lot of bad press ...

06.03.15 // Love

This is it.

I used to view life as black and white. You were either right or wrong. You either wanted to love someone and you only loved that person or you didn't love that person and were incapable of doing so. Over the last year of my life I have been challenged, shaken up, and tested on this theory black and white area. My outcome is that I discovered a whole new world of grey area with grey subjects, categories, people, et cetera. Hell, these shades of grey could be the 50 that EL James reference in ...

03.31.15 // Love

Single And Fabulous in the City: The Scoop on Online Dating

*This series post can be viewed on Louisville.com. Hello, Louisville! My name is Bella Portaro and I’m single and fabulous! Does that ring a bell for you Sex and the City fans? If yes, you know it’s all in the exclamation point when saying that sentence, never a question mark. Guys, if you have no idea what I’m talking about, ask your girlfriends. And while I am a writer who would die to have the chance to compare my love life to Carrie Bradshaw’s, the reality is that I can’t, ...

11.22.14 // Love

The Scarcity Principle

Today's post came from a prompt in my writing workshop, Feet to the Fire with Angela Burton. -- How someone makes herself or himself scarce. -- Look at her. Look at how beautiful she is. The sun is shining so bright around her. The light highlights her hair and her hazel eyes so perfectly. ...

11.20.14 // Love

The Break-Up Post

Sometimes we stay in relationships for too long. But how does it get that way? How do we miss the red flags? Do we choose to overlook them or are we just afraid of starting all over again? Relationships always start off great. They're full of trust and hopes of what could be. You naturally tell your new person everything so you can give them a better understanding of you and your life. Then it's the honeymoon phase and nothing goes badly, life coasts and you keep up with them as desired. But if ...