My name is Armina Mevlani. Many of you know me from my TV shows, others as the girl who represented Albania in Miss World and some as the Creative Director of a magazine for almost three years, time in which I wrote many articles on fashion and other domains. But, there are also some of you who do not know me and I want to leave out what I have done so far, not because I do not find it agreeable; on the contrary, it helped me become who I am, but because this blog is the beginning of a new chapter in my life and I want to share new things with all of you.
My blog is called “Rebel Heart” due to the fact that in my rebel teen years I used to refer to myself as a rebel heart. I also wished to make it a tattoo, but my parents wouldn’t allow me to. Today I decided to personalize it by naming my blog after it. It all came naturally to me and all those who know me, know what “rebel heart” means to me. Rebel Heart is me.
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Remember being so excited about the perks of working from home? Never having to reference a train schedule or traffic report. Getting dressed only from the waist up. Being able to give your poor cubicle plants more daylight. Conferencing while illuminated by ring light, not fluorescent office bulbs. Grabbing a coffee refill without any risk of unsolicited small talk. Those were the days, and they suddenly feel really, really far in the past. Now that the novelty has worn off, we realize…
Something they don’t tell you about getting older: one day, you’ll lay down just a little too soon after eating and—WHAM—heartburn. This is just one of many little eating habits that can make getting quality sleep (something so many of us are already so bad at) even more difficult. The food we eat, as well as the time we eat it, can impact our sleep at every stage. To help make this make sense, we turned to Shaina Painter, MS, CNS, a…
