Best Foods For Healthy Skin

Healthy skin is sold to us every day. Bottles and jars of every shape and size contain soaps, creams, oils,…
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DIY Citrus Sugar Scrub

I've been a fan of high-quality essential oils for a long time, and it seems when people get hooked on…
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How To Find Your Personal Power

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | “Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”-John O’Donohue
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Ask Us Anything

How do you have safe communication during relational conversations where defenses and triggers happen because of past hurts? How do…
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The Ladies of Labor Day

In 1894, congress voted to approve Labor Day as a national holiday. The vote took place just days after the…
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Labor Day Events

Some of the Labor Day events we’ve come to know and love have been canceled this year due to the…
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Crossing the Rubicon

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | My introduction to the esoteric world of spirituality came via my mother in my…
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Q&A with Jessica Merritt of Nurture + Nature Glamping Retreat Center

Special Liberty Project, what is it and how did it get started? The Special Liberty Project is a nonprofit organization…
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The Easiest Way to Grab 10 Minutes of Bliss

By Amber Kleid • Rumble Contributor | When students come to my restorative yoga class, the first thing I usually tell…
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5 Core Benefits of Community

Community is essential to the human experience. We are social beings with an innate yearning to connect with and support…
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Creating A Different Kind Of Church

“This is my kind of church.” That’s how one participant described the lunar women’s circles I started hosting recently.
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Finding Light in a Dark World

The world feels beyond heavy right now.  Floods, wildfires, war, refugees, a pandemic. This topic of this article was orignally…
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Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | I attended an event over the weekend that struck a chord deep within my…
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In Pursuit of Nothing

By Jordan Israel • Rumble Contributor | I love the feeling of unfettered potential in a new notebook. This may explain…
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Lunch Boxes & Backpacks & School Supplies... Oh My!

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | I love this time of year!  My boys are older now and instead of packing…
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When Anxiety Offers You Wisdom

Several weeks ago I wrote about my anxiety surrounding the Lake Logan triathlon. At the time, I’d been training since…
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The Truth About Aphrodisiacs

Aphrodisiacs have a long and sexy history. Named for the Greek Goddess of love and beauty (associated with Venus in…
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There’s Still Time for Summer Adventure

People keep talking about summer coming to an end, and I’m not ready for that yet! I know kids are…
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Healing Through Cannabis & Cooking

Like many of the most resilient and creative people on this earth, the river of Marissa Schneider’s life has meandered…
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A Match Made In Heaven

Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | We all grow and change in life and that often results in moving or renovating…
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Top Tips to Help Women Enjoy Sex Again

The female body is a complicated organism, and the reproductive system is perhaps the most complicated of all. Sex can…
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When Physical and Mental Arousal Don't Align

Naema Pierce • Rumble Contributor | Somewhere in the many messages that we have received about sex, most of us have…
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Why You Should Host A Passion Party

It’s come to my attention that there are still some women out there who’ve never been to a passion party…
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What Can Dis-ease in the Physical Body Tell Us?

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | All energy connects. We like to compartmentalize issues in our lives, but from an…
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Women Fight for Olympic Rights

There were no women at the first modern Olympics in 1896. According to its founder Pierre de Coubertin, women were “not…
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Don't Let Fear Win the Battle

What you don’t know won’t scare you.  That was the lesson I learned during my first triathlon. 
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Meditation: Why Time & Place Matter

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | How we feel in a space makes a big difference in our ability to…
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GMHG women’s heavy athletics bolstered by tough competition

In just over a span of five years, the women’s heavy athletic division at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games has…
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You’re Invited! BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag)

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” – William Wordsworth, 1798 This month is Plastic Free July, a…
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Summer Recipe Ideas

The dog days of summer are here (officially July 3 - Aug. 11 according to the Farmer’s Almanac) and although…
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Best Summer Movies

Rumble Team | Summer is for adventure, for getting outside, exploring and having fun. But, the rainy afternoons come. So to…
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Zaila Avant-garde Makes History

On July 8, 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde made history as the first Black winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in…
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2 Most Common Design Mistakes

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | My intuitive design work is based on the principles of Feng Shui. I started…
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A House Plant For Every Type of Home

No matter where your house is located, how much sun it gets or how inept you think you are at…
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7 Ways to Fuel Your Body

The simplest of changes to your daily lifestyle can make you feel more alert, productive and energetic. Following these seven…
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Love Knows No Bounds

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | I work with the spirit world. I am grateful for those in the living…
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Foods to improve low thyroid function

In what feels like a never-ending quest to feel my best, I’ve been working on honing in on my health…
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Delia Owens, author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," comes to Asheville

New York Times bestselling author Delia Owens will keynote Literacy Together’s 13th Annual Authors for Literacy Dinner & Auction on…
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Whose Turn Is It?

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | Do you remember the 1960s game “Operation?" Cavity Sam lays on an operating table…
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Peanut Butter Pie

By Maxine Hooten | I'm the youngest of my fourteen cousins. Ten of us are girls. I always love seeing them…
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Funding Cuts for Sexual Assault & Human Trafficking Counseling

Our VOICE learned on June 16 that we would not be receiving $298,000 in continued grant funding from the North…
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Dear anyone that has ever taken a leap of faith

 By Dr. Dara Have you ever taken a chance at something that you never thought you could? Have you put…
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Reasons You Should Join WOW

I’ve been an official member of Women of Waynesville since 2015, but even before that I say I was an…
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What is a Life to You?

By Harmony Robin • Guest Columnist | As I sit and gaze out my window, the summer breeze cools my face.…
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17 Summer Date Ideas

Everything about summer is romantic. What doesn’t speak love when you combine sunshine with fresh food, bare skin and more…
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Good Vibrations

By Sabrina Matheny • Rumble Contributor | Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of balancing a space by using a…
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Peach Salsa

It seems like every produce stand and farmers market in the south is bursting with soft, fuzzy peaches. This basic,…
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Soaking Up The Strawberry Super Moon

Having just celebrated the Summer Solstice last weekend, there is something so exciting and magical about welcoming the Strawberry Super…
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Meet The Author of 'The Girl Explorers'

  Meet the author of The Girl Explorers, Jayne Zanglein, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 26, at City Lights…
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Welding student named Sylva Rotary Student of the Month

The Rotary Club of Sylva chooses a student of the month for good grades and exemplary study skills.
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