Peace…
Sunday, 02 February 2014
We extend the wish for it often — in hand gestures, cards, holiday greetings, warm embraces. And yet, how often do you extend this to your own self in your private internal dialogue? Peace is what we all crave, we search for. So very often our search is amped up and ends up as a
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Winter Happiness & Well-being #2
Saturday, 01 February 2014
Did you try any of the suggestions that I gave you last week? There were 5. If you did, you have GOT to let me know how it made a difference for you, the suspense is driving me nuts! : ) I wrote them and I still managed to come up with a way to
What a fun day!
Monday, 27 January 2014
We ought to be able to find time in the evening of a day to express what was joyful, even in the midst of extreme sorrow or fear or illness or despair. It is not a stretch to make this statement. Even when my closest loved ones were so very ill and at the end
Winter Happiness and Well-Being #1
Saturday, 25 January 2014
It all begins with your mind, your attitude, helping yourself develop a perspective that is helpful, not counterproductive. Each season lasts 3 months, on the calendar. If you open the season of winter lamenting the shorter hours of daylight and the cold temps, you are setting your mental stage for depression and frustration. The trick
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What anxiety actually is
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Anxiety is so prevalent that even Hollywood has gotten in on it and made movies to get us to share the experience and laugh about it, yes, laugh. What is it? Do you have it? Is it contagious? Is there a cure? There are many questions about the experience of anxiety that come into
Stepping into your life
Monday, 20 January 2014
This is about the time, each year, when discouragement is creeping in about sticking to New Year Resolutions. We hate when that happens, often to the point of just not making any resolutions. That, however, is a missed opportunity. We all want to be our best self. To make a resolution is really about having
We are doing our best, right?
Friday, 17 January 2014
There are days, like today, when I find myself on the phone with a dear friend and we are talking about how to craft a schedule for the day so all things are actually accomplished–we are laughing a bit and it is as we both sit in our respective houses laughing a bit and lamenting
What influences our moods
Friday, 10 January 2014
The weather has been a topic of conversation across the nation for nearly a month. However, very little of that news is actually news–we are all in the middle of living with the colder than normal temperatures and additional amounts of snowfall, no big announcements needed. It is winter, it is cold, there is snow.When
The K Factor
Tuesday, 07 January 2014
Where K = Kindness, and the factors are the things that lead to it.
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Be soft, fluid, flexible
Monday, 06 January 2014
There are many ways to be in this life experience, what is your way? What is your character? I mean by that — what is it that is you? Big question. Are you a warm and loving person who feels connection to others in this life? Or do you find yourself isolated and disconnected, somehow