I am going to make blogging a daily thing from here on out. Since pre covid I have been inattentive to this blog and my own passions for helping people become the best version of themselves. And that is partially due to the fact I wasn't being the best version of myself. I was in a bad place after a bad relationship and a bad breakup and multiple unhealthy competition preps.
I am making 2024 my mission to find myself again and get in control over everything in my life:
Personal
Professional
Passions
Bodybuilding
Blogging
Vloggng
Podcasting
Re-building my brand
I wan to show up as the best version of myself. But not just for me but for others.
What does that mean for this blog?
It means content in blogs, reviews, news and all things health and fitness. I love it - even if no one is reading this or seeing my content this platform, YouTube and my podcast are more like journals/documentation of things I love and enjoy. And if I can positively impact anyone while sharing then that brings me joy.
This post is to keep me accountable. So thank you to those who made it this far.
Alicia
Well it is February 14th. Time doesn't feel real. How is it February already. I am currently sitting at the cafe at the w hotel in Toronto near my house enjoying a great cup of peppermint tea doing some reflecting and I decided I should check in with my blog that I have been neglecting.
What's new?
I am still single (but talking to someone)
I have to move again
I still have not started a prep
I do have a lot to be thankful for but I also have a lot weighing on me. Life is hard alone. But this isnt a negative blog. I am going away to Punta Cana with my friend in March, I an off work for a week and will reset, reorganize and figure my life out, goals, moving etc. My work life is ok but not at all what I ever pictured it to be...but is even any of my life what I had pictured it to be at this age....hell no. I really want to rebrand my fitness content, regrow my online business and sort everything in my life out. In addition I want to also compete and just get back to a happy place.
Other than that I am sorry to anyone who actually reads my blog that I haven't been consistent. I truly just haven't had the motivation to be creative like I use to be. But I am determined to find myself again. So thanks for sticking with me during this process/over the years etc.
If you are alone on Valentines Day like me - Pour yourself a nice glass of your fav sugar free beverage, take a relaxing epsom salt bath, put on a show or if your like me the Cavs vs Bulls game and enjoy. I am also going to be doing a lot of goal setting, gratitude and journalling. I think that those things will keep you In a positive mood and on a good path to self love. <3
Even if your night doesn't look like mine - make it a night where you do positive things that you yourself love and it will be a great valentines.
Hello to anyone who follows this blog or knows I even have one. I actually have been blogging since around 2009-2010 on and off. Usually reviews and fitness things. Kind of the same on and off as my vlogs and my socials. It always feels like the same things on all of my platforms at times. Im literally doing all the same things as many others but never break through - never really reach the viral content or quite see the success that I want from it. So I take time away. I get fixated on whatever new path or challenge I take and then always find myself back to try again.
Now that 2024 is here my goals are:
Compete again
Weekly Vlogs
Blog/Reviews
Open myself up to love
Pay off debts
Advance my online coaching business
Advance in my career at work
Journal
Basically I just want to work on the higher version of myself.
Hoping to keep with it and just work on my scheduling out everything to be more organized.
My French bulldog Sampson passed away suddenly on Thursday morning. It was shocking and unexpected.
What I didn't do: fall off my plan, binge.
What I did do: Morn, loose sleep and took rest days.
Although I am heart broken and no frenchie or dog of that matter could replace my baby/sidekick/shadow and Adonis' brother. He truly was one of a kind. I have taken the days since to reflect and member him as he was. The most loving baby ever. However my life is still filled with love from Adonis.I have come to the realization my household and my family is meant to have 2 dogs. It is too quiet and lonely without another dog.
If you met Sammy or know me you know how much that dog meant to me. Im truly heartbroken and devastated. I don't have family and my dogs were/are my family. I was not prepared to lose Sammy at all nor am I in a financial position to purchase a new frenchie right now. But I will be saving up to get a new baby.
With that said I will be sending training programs and or guides to everyone who donates to my new puppy fund. Anything truly will help fill my lonely void and empty house.
Hey guys! Its Alicia here. I am not to sure who reads my blog these days or if any one who use to checks back here. BUT if your new my name is Alicia and I am an IFBB Pro.
My blog use to be aliciabellelite dot com where i posted about training, fitness topics, health etc. I also use to do a lot of product reviews. Life got the best of me and I stopped. But I actually love it and would like to get back to it. I use to love sharing...until one day I got in a horrible relationship that prevented me from being me...prevented me from sharing and took me away from everything that I loved. But im back now. Healed (i think) and ready to be my opinionated, sharing self.
I use to have all sorts of PR companies that I worked with and dud influencer things with (before influencing was cool). And to be honest I would like to get back to that! Anyway the hardest part is always starting...So this is day !!
Stick it out and keep checking back because I cant wait to share products, apparel, training and life with the world again.
XO - Alicia
Blown Into Now Bridges the Worlds of Life and Loss
San Francisco, Calif., October 12, 2022― Mylo Schaaf’s new book, Blown Into Now: Poems for a Journey, takes readers on an odyssey through shade and light, offering glimpses into the stages of grief Schaaf went through when her son died suddenly at age 24. She offers the profound manifestations of his presence that she witnessed following his passing.
“Poems demanded to be written,” Schaaf said. “They brought relief and healing, as did hills warm with grass, tree spirits and arms of sky.”
Blown Into Now offers 45 remarkable poems, each paired with a striking photograph taken by her late son, Alex Lowenstein, who was a mountaineer, world traveler and adventurer, and veteran.
“The path is not all sadness,” she said during a recent interview. “It goes sort of up and down as you suppose any path would, but it eventually heads toward joy and toward understanding.”
In Blown Into Now, Schaaf carries readers from deep sadness and loss to comfort and support, finally edging toward joy. Her melodic words become a guidebook, allowing those who grieve to witness a spectrum of responses, to understand what might give relief, and to know how to look for the signposts that will guide them down the path toward healing.
To those who must endure such a shocking new reality, she aims to bring compassion, beauty and spiritual connection.
Her poems reveal a mother’s great heart and the love she shares with her son for granite peaks and untracked desert. Each photograph provides a pause from grief and allows us a glimpse of something we want and cannot name.
About the Author
Mylo Schaaf trained as a journalist, editor and physician, before taking a left turn into poetry. Before everything changed, she was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, mentoring and teaching students in international, low-resource settings. Her commitment to global health grew out of her work and connection with India, the Americas, Liberia, Haiti and China. Then one day, a shocking phone call revealed her son’s death and collapsed this pursuit of engagement and action. Each long day would slowly disappear, and Schaaf found understanding and release when she began to write. Over the years poems have continued to emerge, as the tangles of days slip into light.
For more information, please visit https://www.myloschaaf.com, or follow the author on Instagram at writermyloschaaf.
Blown Into Now – Poems for a Journey
Publisher: Blue Light Press
ISBN: 979-8-9864093-0-6 (soft cover, available now)
Silence understands the struggles of emotional pain well. A survivor of cancer while pregnant, childhood sexual abuse and domestic abuse, she has known enormous suffering, but she learned to defeat her emotional pain to live free and happy.
Silence has taught clients worldwide on topics such as how to understand that past pain impacts the present, how to liberate yourself from those wounds, and how to connect to your own inner healer to create a life where you not only survive, but also thrive.
Now in her new book, Coming Back to Life: A Roadmap to Healing from Pain to Create the Life You Want, Silence helps readers create an opening to possibility. She provides tools, strategies and support that will allow readers to get to the root of their pain patterns while also receiving hope, encouragement and access to the light at the end of the dark tunnel they may find themselves in.
“What the world desperately needs now more than ever before is a way to navigate trauma and difficult emotions,” said Silence. "How you feel is 100 percent based on how healed your past is. There really is life on the other side of whatever darkness people are facing, and this book offers hope, healing, and a roadmap that is guaranteed to empower and encourage readers to take their lives back from an emotionally clear, neutral and grounded space. You’ll never have to feel powerless again, and that is a promise,” Silence added.
Readers will learn how to:
- Emotionally heal and process through anxiety, depression and past trauma, and re-commit to living a fulfilling life.
- Break free from generational pain patterns to become the most authentic and happy versions of themselves.
- Be the source of their own encouragement, take control over their lives and never feel powerless again.
“Coming Back to Life is the book that the world needs in this moment. It will illuminate what has been invisibly holding you back and give you a clear path to feeling good and getting what you want,” said Stephen Lovegrove, America’s Life Coach.
About the Author
Rebeccah Silence is a global advocate and leading coach in emotional healing and relationships. As a survivor of childhood trauma and abuse, and being diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer while she was pregnant, she has helped countless individuals, couples and families process even the most intense traumatic experiences — and heal!
An accomplished TV and radio personality with over two decades of experience speaking to millions about doing the inner work, Silence is a groundbreaking voice in the space of healing and self-development. Her life’s mission is about supporting people in moving through their healing so they can allow themselves to truly thrive.
Silence is the author of Coming Back to Life, host of the Healing IS Possible Experience and the Tougher Together Breakthrough podcast, and the creator of the on-demand The Emotional Survival Kitcourse. Through her coaching, seminars, books and online courses, Silence teaches audiences how to become their own healers, how to love and trust themselves, and how to be their best for others and the world. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. Visit her website: rebeccahsilence.com.
Coming Back to Life: A Roadmap to Healing from Pain to Create the Life You Want Publisher: HCI Books Release Date: October 11, 2022 ISBN-10: 0757324460 ISBN-13: 9780757324468 Trade Paperback, 256 pages Available for pre-order on Amazon.com
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Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. reports positive preclinical data in melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma, initiates a program aimed at advancing topical therapies for skin cancer to the clinic
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a Vancouver based preclinical biopharmaceutical company focused on skin health and healthy aging, has initiated a program aimed at advancing its topical treatments for precancerous skin conditions such as actinic keratosis and non-melanoma skin cancers such as squamous cell carcinoma through to the clinic. One in every three cancers diagnosed worldwide is skin cancer, with non-melanoma skin cancers the most common of all types of cancer, representing a significant market opportunity. According to a report by Grand View Research, Inc, the global actinic keratosis treatment market size alone is expected to reach $8.12 billion USD by 2028.
The current standards of care for non-melanoma skin cancers include surgical excision (costly, leaves scars) and chemotherapy creams (long treatment duration and severe side effects limit patient compliance and, consequently, therapeutic efficacy). In a preclinical study using patient derived squamous cell carcinoma primary cultures, a Derm-Biome compound was completely selective for killing tumor cells but not normal cells, at a rate significantly higher than the standard-of-care drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5FU). Derm-Biome has since developed a new generation of compounds, with one drug in particular exhibiting significantly more cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory activity than all previous Derm-Biome drug candidates.
Derm-Biome CSO Dr. Poul Sorensen: “We are very intrigued by our latest data, demonstrating selective cytotoxicity of our compounds on squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, compared to normal skin cells. Treatments for this disease, such as 5-Fluorouracil, tend to have potentially severe side effects, making new non-toxic therapies a significant clinical unmet need. Given our previous data that Derm-Biome compounds have strong anti-inflammatory activity, we are excited that our compounds may represent a mechanistically novel class of compounds to treat malignant skin diseases.”
Derm-Biome CEO Gordon Eberwein: “We see a strong need for an effective and well tolerated topical treatment for precancerous skin conditions and skin cancer. With people spending more leisure time in the sun, a growing elderly population more susceptible to these tumors, and climate change, rates of skin cancer will definitely increase.”
About Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company with a suite of natural compound-based small molecules dedicated to improving skin health and healthy aging. Our compounds are well tolerated by the skin and exhibit novel anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-oxidant, and antitumor properties.
https://derm-biomepharmaceuticals.com/
Source: Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc
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