When stress invades your life
Tuesday, 05 November 2013
It is very difficult to function normally when you have an experience of overwhelming stress enter your world. The stress of a loved one being terminally ill, the actual loss of that loved one, caustic interactions with people in your life — the list is whatever you have that comes to mind that causes you
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Tapping my own inner strength
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Life is busy, no matter what you are doing. On my personal FB page, friends from high school are loving the photos one of our classmates is sharing from Bora Bora. Lovely place, truly gorgeous and relaxing….but busy anyhow….busy getting the money made to go there, busy making all the provisions to be there, busy
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The best of life
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Talking with one of my orchestra musicians this evening, we shared the story of a talented young musical genius here in St Louis who died suddenly yesterday. Andrew Thomas played the bassoon and contrabassoon for the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO). He was 27 years old. Known as Drew, he was said to be just
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Great music soothes the soul
Monday, 14 October 2013
It was a Brazilian Festival — the Brazilian Orchestra Guide by Composer Barbosa and Bachiana Brasilleras No 2 of Villa Lobos — both performed by the University City Symphony Orchestra here is St Louis, Missouri. Gorgeous. There is nothing quite as lovely as a Sunday afternoon in autumn, when the air is warm, the sun
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The body responds to tension
Friday, 11 October 2013
When you investigate the literature about stress, you will read about how there is good and not so good stress but that life itself has stress, it is a natural. The changing environment, even if we love the seasons in the Midwestern region in the U.S., show clearly that those changes are still stressful and
Life balance vs out of whack
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
This is a time frame within which I am examining, yet again, my life and balance and work and value. This is good healthy exercise but that doesn’t mean its fun or particularly easy. It is however, full of rewards. As I look at my own life, I find many reasons to be critical. When
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When pain strikes
Sunday, 06 October 2013
This week is the theme of life balance. Oh man, I am right in the middle of it — a little bent in the direction of out of whack on work and not quite genteel enough with my own self in my personal world. I need to take care — the message has been delivered
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Building your inner strength
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Each and every day we are presented with challenges. The quality of our life is not contingent upon what comes to us but it is based upon how we handle what we are dealt to deal with. Stop and think about what you have the ability to do — you have a strong mind, you
What we share among us
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Sometimes, as I am writing and posting, I am so eager to share the positive spin and the productive pathway that I miss the opportunity. The opportunity is the one where I share that my life has not been easy or without challenge. This came to mind when I sat talking with two young woman
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Manage your stress and spread happiness
Monday, 16 September 2013
Wringing your hands won’t do you much in the way of anything productive, we all actually know this. I think it is an old habit someone started when they wanted to hold the hand of a loved one but no one was there. It might have started as a way to provide a bit of