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Self Discovery is the beginnin

Awakening a Movement of Wellness, Connection & Aligned Living

My work is rooted in nurturing emotional peace, cultivating daily rituals, and guiding women back to the clarity and strength that already lives inside them. Through meditation, mindfulness, holistic practices, and soulful coaching, I help women reconnect with their truth — so they can lead lives filled with intention, love, and aligned energy.

A Woman Called to Lift Other Women

I’m Barbie Martinez-Schneider, a woman shaped by the strength of her roots.
Raised by women who prayed with their hands, healed with their food,
and nurtured with their love,
I learned early that the feminine spirit is powerful, sacred, and unbreakable.

My grandmother taught me the language of herbs and nature.
My mother showed me the beauty of nourishment and devotion.
And my own life — the trials, the becoming, the healing —
taught me the power of silence, breath, and returning home to myself.

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Blog Me…

Meditation, to me, is a sanctuary —
a place where a woman can hear her own heart again.
A place where stillness becomes strength
and gentleness becomes power.

And this is why I am here.
This is why I share.
This is why Simply Mindful was born.

I want to help build a community so rooted in love,
so anchored in peace,
so aligned in purpose,
that it becomes our own Blue Zone —
a place where women thrive, heal, and glow from the inside out.

A place where wellness is not a trend,
but a way of living.
Where self-love is not selfish,
but sacred.
Where every woman feels safe to rise
into the fullness of who she is.

This blog is more than words —
it’s a movement,
a ministry of gentle empowerment,
a gathering of women returning to themselves.

Together, we rise.
Together, we heal.
Together, we create a world where our daughters, sisters, and mothers
feel held, whole, and wonderfully aligned.

This is my offering.
This is my heart.
This is the movement we build —
one aligned woman at a time.

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Women

It was from these women,
from these prayers,
from these stories,
that I fell in love with the art of guiding others toward healing.
Especially women.
Especially the ones who carry the world quietly on their shoulders.

I believe in a community where women rise together,
where we sit in circles of truth,
where we breathe life into one another,
and where self-love becomes an act of holy rebellion.

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