When stress invades your life

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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The keywords of my work

When you enter the Information Super Highway AKA the Internet, the Web, you need to learn the language. When I first came to the web more than 3 decades ago, it was a mysterious landscape that seemed like a sticky place here spiders would reside. Indeed it is and has evolved to stick to us
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Inner strength and gossip

I’ve never suffered much from negative gossip of people. I recently however, as an adult, found out just how bullies are created — through their parents. Although I have written and taught the programs to clients for combating bullies, it somehow didn’t hit me in the face until these past few weeks. Stunning set of
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Tapping my own inner strength

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

The best of life

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

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

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
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Life balance vs out of whack

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

When pain strikes

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

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