Nanncie Santana Blog

As I sat at the nail salon for a day of self pampering, I thought about ways to find my self-worth. I know that my worth isn't in the things that I buy myself nor is it for the day of self pampering. The most important part of my self worth is the importance of my inner worth. The importance of my personal and spiritual well-being. That is so important to me, not the mani/pedi because I know I can find my self worth sipping a delicious cup of tea. I find my worth in my meditation. Sitting in nature. Seeing my birdies chirping and eating at their bird feeders. Today I gave myself a pamper day. I start work on Tuesday and my nails needed it. I also got my eye brows done and got myself a facial. These things are small tokens. I don't find my self worth in them. I treated myself because I know my value. I want to feel GOoD as I begin a what I know will be a busy week. I am not sure what the journey there will hold for me. I know I am divinely guided by my spiritual angelic team tha...

  How does "Self Care" look like for you? Do you take time for your "Self Care"? Self Care is so important for your overall well-being. Self Care can be as simple as walking outside in nature and enjoying the fresh breeze and the warmth of the sunshine. Self Care can also be giving yourself a pamper day. Who doesn't feel like a million bucks after a mani-pedi. I know love those pamper days.  I also love my massages. Yesterday I went to Sweet Relief Massage Therapy . I have been seeing Katie for a year now. I have done cupping with her. Yesterday I wanted to try Hot Stones/Massage combo.  This is how my "Self Care" looked like yesterday. It had been a minute since I had my last session with her. I had a cupping/massage session with her in April right before my White Tantric Yoga experience. It was long overdue.  I left feeling refreshed and so rejuvenated. It felt so good to have her work the knots from my shoulders.   Her space is so tr...

Are you living in a state of gratitude?  There is power when you live in gratitude.  The movie The Secret taught me some important things, first of all your thoughts become things.  What you focus on that is what you will attract in your life. Living in a state of gratitude means your thoughts should be on being grateful for the things you have NOW. By living in this state of being....the universal law of attraction says that we will attract into your life the things we focus and think about ....if your thoughts are on lack (negativity) you  will attract that. But if your thoughts are on your many blessings than the universe says lets give more things for them to be grateful for......so remember GRATITUDE attracts what we want. Another area that I've notice people having a hard time with is accepting a blessing from others.....remember when someone gives you a $20.00 bill it is the giver that shall receive a blessing. So many times I see people want to cut off the...

I wanted to share this thought with you today because of something that happened to me the other day. Do you know that YOU are responsible for YOUR own happiness? There are times when we have to deal with lessons in life. We grown up with divorce parents, sometimes without parent(s), or sad events that effect our lives. I know because I have been in those shoes. I will be honest there was a time in my life that I blamed everyone else for my happiness (because I wasn't living a happy life).....it wasn't until I began "dealing" with me that I began to discover so many things. I know that "I am responsible for my own happiness!" not my parents, not the bad relationships, not my family, not even my children.  I am responsible. Now that I know this I want to share my insights with others.....I know LIFE can be a challenge BUT nothing that you are going through should steal your happiness!! Life is a gift!! No matter what YOU are dealing with....sometimes we m...

In order to become a successful and empowered woman there are changes you must be willing to take. Making a shift in order to live a successful and empowered life. You must believe you are worthy! You must be willing to develop that self confidence, self worth, & self esteem in yourself. You were created to be successful to live a happy and healthy life. There is so much you can accomplish in your life but you must believe in YOU! There are many times in order to make this shift you must HEAL from prior struggles that you've gone through. Many times  you must learn to love yourself first.   Many times woman put everyone first and forget about one important person which is YOU! You must take time to love yourself daily.  Start these little habits today and I promise you that you will become more successful and empowered! 1. Start your day with Gratitude. My favorite is my Gratitude Journal. 2. Smile to everyone you come into contact. A smile is free and can bright...

What is required to have a healthy relationship? Some would say it takes a lot of work. That you have to have magic. Some have master the ART of having and maintaining a healthy relationship. Like most of us girls, we grew up watching fairy-tales with happy endings. These fairy-tales, did now prepare us for the “real” world. I believe we must first learn to have a healthy relationship with the most important person you will ever be in a relationship with in your lifetime ~ YOU! Do you love yourself? Do you respect yourself? Are you happy with yourself? Do you cherish yourself? Do you honor yourself? I ask these questions because I have learned the art of a healthy relationship. It took me some hard bumps on the road to reach it but I want to share with you some quick steps to having a healthy relationship with YOU. So many woman search for that one person that will love them unconditionally. When all along you've been with that person. That person is YOU. Do you love y...

Because you should always pamper yourself once in a while. Today was one of those days. Enjoying a much needed Pedi. Today's reminder is to make it a point to treat yourself like a boss. Pamper yourself because you are worth it. 

I want to see you be brave. I want to see you live life fully. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you create the happiness you deserve. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you speak kindly. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you hug life daily by embracing it fully. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you smile often. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you hope more. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you laugh freely. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you seek your truth. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you inspire the change you wish to see. I want to see you be brave. I want to see you LOVE deeply. I want to see you be brave. Nanncie Santana

I want to share "3 Simple Steps for Self-Love" that I have personally used to empower, heal, and truly discover the meaning of Self-Love. The first step is  awareness.  Begin by being completely aware of your thoughts. Thoughts that clearly are meant to self sabotage yourself. When we become aware of these thoughts we begin to be mindful of negative thought patterns that do not serve you or your well-being. The second is  forgiveness . This is a tough one because I am asking you to forgive yourself. The key to self-love is to truly become aware of all the junk that isn't serving your personal growth. We can be our own worse critic. We can find it extremely hard to forgive our own self. When we don't forgive ourselves for our shortcomings we remain stagnant. When we remain stagnant we are unable to see the beauty within our soul. The third step is  gratitude.  The third step is so easy to put into practice once we forgive ourselves. When we free ourselves from...

Love conquers all. I heard this growing up in sermons a lot. Yet during my darkest life lessons, I often wondered "does love really conquer all" because I was loving someone so much to the point. I neglected my own well-being to please another for love. I also heard the phrase "pray that God will change him" yet it wasn't until I began seeking answers to this phrase that I was enlightened. God gives us free will. God will not and can not change a person that doesn't seek change. So it doesn't matter how much you pray for someone. IF that person doesn't realize he/she has a problem and wants to change it will not happen. So I did two important things for ME.  Love does conquer all. I began to LOVE myself. I began to honor my BE~ing.  That was the first thing I did for myself, I looked in the mirror and began to listen to my soul. My soul was crying for change. I listened to my soul. I began praying to God to "Change Me"  my soul began get...

As I share this photo with you.  This photo taken sometime in 2005.   You may ask "Who's that girl?" That girl was a  sad mistreated girl.  A girl that had spend years pretending all was well.  A girl that was stressed, depressed, afraid, hurt, abused, and didn't know her self-worth.  Who's that girl? This girl spend years  wondering "WHY"  things had happened the way they had.   This girl smiled in front of peers. This girl attended regular church services with her heart in pieces because moments prior she had been emotionally and verbally abused at home. This girl kept years of this treatment hidden from the world.  This girl that  you see in this photo wished many times that she could die....run away....wanted so desperately for the pain that she felt to stop.  This girl spend years "ASKING" God to change someone else until she began "ASKING" God to change her.  Something happened to this girl. She realize...

In the last three years, I've had to learn how to forgive myself in order to truly love myself. Life throws us curve balls.  We all have experience current life events that were traumatic.  We've done things we didn't like.  We've been treated poorly. So many things could have happened.  I will share a little about what happened to me and how I was able to take the advice I am about to share with you and change my life around. I spend a majority of my life blaming others for my unhappiness.  First mistake, I made. I had to take responsibility for my own mistakes.  I was in an abusive relationship for 15 years. I blamed God for not changing my situation. I lived feeling that God must not love me. What happened to me was I developed a mindset that if God didn't love me why should I love myself. My reasoning to this thought was the fact I was mistreated, called names, put down for so many years.....God didn't hear my prayers. It wasn't until I chan...

When we look at ourselves, we tend to see only what we think we need to improve or fix. Somehow, we push aside our many wonderful gifts and strengths and even wish we were more like someone else - someone "perfect". But there's no such thing! And why try to be someone else when you're already someone fabulous? I picked up a Woman's World magazine today which is one of my favorite. I read this little poem. I wanted to share it with you because sometimes we are victims of put-downs by other people that create those feelings that we are not perfect. Don't allow anyone to speak negative words to you or at you - put you down - there are people that do this and they call it "joke" - it's not a joke. If you start listening to those comments about you - and you listen to them - you start believing them - that is when this poem comes in  read it daily. Affirm that you are perfect, special, beautiful, worthy of greatness!!