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Earlier this week there was a post on Owning Pink that mentioned the song If I Were Brave by Jana Stanfield. As I read the lyrics, I felt myself having a very emotional response to the song. These feelings were only intensified by listening to the song. The question “What would I do today, if I were brave?” lit a fire within me. It made me really question what I was holding back on doing because I thought I was not brave. After journaling about it and thinking about it for a good long time, I realized that fear is what is holding me back. Fear is the barrier between me and my dreams.

And so I am here to kick fear in the butt. To do this I have started to change the way I view the above question. I have started to ask myself each morning “What am I going to do today, considering I am brave?” Asking this question to myself each morning has allowed me to reinforce my own bravery and write out action steps in my planner pad that allow me to put fear in its place.

And so here I am armed with bravery to make announcement. I am ready to change the direction of Ellecubed. I want to make it less about sadness, grief and depression and more about molding a life that is holistic, balanced and full of sparkle.

The thing is that I don’t feel like I can do that on this blog. My friend who passed away in November was a big supporter of this blog and helped me immensely when I was setting it up and getting started. Her contributions, style aesthetic and drafts of posts (she was going to be a guest poster) linger all over this site. So each time I log in to blogger I can feel her sparkly spirit all around me. Some days that is wonderful and I love feeling her presence. But most days it makes me sad and serves as a reminder that she is gone.

I have thought about this a lot and in order to create the blog that I want full of sparkle and balance, it was necessary to create a clearing and change for myself. I have thus decided to reincarnate Ellecubed.

You can now find Ellecubed at http://www.ellecubed.net

I have transferred all of the self-care articles over. But I have left the rest of the articles here. This blog will continue to stay up as it is but will no longer be updated.