11 Ways to be happier this December

Christmas happens in 11 days. Hannukah begins tomorrow at sunset. No matter which holiday you celebrate, there are simple steps that you can take today to ensure that you close out this year happier and open the new year with a joyful perspective. The Dalai Lama teaches us that happiness ought to be our primary

A special request for peace — today

Peace. It is attainable through intention. I love the words of the song “Give Peace a Chance”.Imagine what would happen if the method of protest would return to the sit ins that used to take place here in America in the 1960s and 1970s. We would be looking at a very different national image and
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How are you allowing music to influence your feelings and thoughts?

With everything that bombards us in today’s electronic culture, we are influenced every single nanosecond. There are sights and sounds coming at us continually. Some of it makes us feel frenetic because it is too loud, too pounding, too high pitched, too angry, too slow, too fast–your interpretation of it  all depends upon what you

How to quickly get out of a bad mood

Step 1–stomp your foot! Step 2–own the feelings that you are having and make sure you are accountable to yourself for them! Step 3–your leg should be talking back to you for stomping, telling you it is not happy about the residual feeling, your ownership of your feelings ought to have you motivated to be
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Create a Work-Life Balance to Keep Loved Ones Close

Journal Star, the website for the daily newspaper in Lincoln, NE, posted Dr Deb’s Monster piece, based on BUILD THE STRENGTH WITHIN, on October 23, 2014, and included the jacket image, as well as a link to the book’s page on Amazon, and to her website.  The site has approximately 260,000 visitors per month. Below is the

6 Insights Gained From A Weekend With Laura: Laura Miravete, A True Inspiration (A guest blog post by Tara Rose Gladstone)

This past weekend, I met Laura Miravete, a woman who was born with muscular dystrophy.  She is now 70 years old and has not only lived a full, self-sufficient life but has surpassed the level of achievement that seems possible for someone in her position.  She keeps her home in spotless condition, has an impressive vegetable
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Where we chose to be

I love how easy it is to be any place on the planet within about a day or two…..you just decide where it is you want to be and don’t allow any barriers. You can go, there are an endless number of ways to make it happen. I am happy to know this as a

My journey up the mountain

Several years ago, I was invited to book a massage appointment with someone described to me as a yoga teacher from Tibet. I made the appointment and didn’t know much other than this was a Tibetan monk and that the experience would be just that – an experience. It was. A man of small physical

A beautiful airport experience–really?

Yes. Flights get me where it is that I need to be–sometimes at a moment’s notice given who my clients are and the various types of work that I do. And yes, there have been times in my life when I felt a certain sort of dread in anticipation of flying–but I had a very

Internal dialogue

What is it that you are saying when you talk to your self? Do you think that you don’t? You do. In fact, you talk to your own self more than to anyone else–and that’s a good thing. However, depending upon what it is that you’re saying, you are either propelling yourself into a great