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You Deserve to Be the Star in Your Own Life

“All Set” by Gil Elvgren 1956

I talk to women all the time who are, well, sick and tired of being sick and tired of how their life is going. They are unhappy, unfulfilled, and just don’t see how life can change. They feel stuck behind the labels they’ve assigned to themselves. Mom. Wife. Sister. Grandmother. They tell me about numbing [...]

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Your Heart’s Desires: How You Want to Feel

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Let me ask you a question, darling:  do you want to just bounce around in life or do you want to achieve or create something?  I’ll be honest and tell you that nothing is wrong with simply being, but I am guessing that if you were to push aside the fears and the sometimes-mean voice [...]

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Origins of a Tarnished Southern Belle

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Darling, I have to tell you something: I stopped counting the number of drafts on my computer this week.  It’s not that I was out of things to tell you, you see, but sometimes, the ideas are like the blasting spray of a fire hose: so powerful it’s impossible to capture more than a few [...]

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Want to Fall in Love? Start with Peace

Rolf Armstrong

Once upon a time, I became convinced that if I had a perfect body, then I would be able to fix my failing marriage. I worked out seven days a week and spent at least two hours a day at the gym.  I worked out with a personal trainer, attended spin classes, and in between [...]

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Love Your Life: Create a Courage Practice

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Tell me darling, how’s the New Year’s Focus feeling?  When you went through the process of digging in and identifying what you want in 2013, I’m betting that some of those dreams and desires were gargantuan.  But here we are, just a few weeks into the new year, and you’re already questioning yourself. May I [...]

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9 Ways to Preserve Your New Year’s Focus

New Year’s by Howard Connolly

Happy First Week of January, my darling.  How are you? We are officially past the holidays, and the task at hand is to settle back into the normal rhythm of life after the excitement of the holiday season. Some of you may welcome the return to routines.  Some of you may be giddy with the [...]

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My 3 Rs for 2013

New York City – Miss Sylvania by Gil Elvgren

Happy New Year, Darling!  Welcome to 2013! I often share pieces of my personal story here within the blog. Long ago I learned that people learn from the stories of others. It’s why we were read fairy tales and fables when we were children, because deep behind the sleeping princess and little girls with baskets [...]

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Holiday Wishes to Love Your Life

Sheer Delights by Gil Elvgren (1948)

Merry Christmas, darling.  I know that by the time you read this, the stockings have been emptied, the latkes of Hanukkah are a memory and the breakfast casseroles have been reduced to crumbs.   As I write this, I have a turkey breast in the oven and the cornbread dressing and overnight potatoes are nestled in [...]

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Love Your Life: Winter Solstice Rituals

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We’re approaching the shortest day of the year, the Winter Solstice.  The sun is setting earlier and rising later. The edges of the dawn have been soft and subtle with the most beautiful filter of clouds. A new morning ritual has emerged the last few weeks:  I go into my office to begin the day’s [...]

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Give Yourself a Gift: Lose Some Baggage

Gil Elvgren Holiday Pin Up

Hanukkah is nearly over, and we’re mere days from Christmas. As I stock the house with necessities like paper towels, pasta and coffee, I can’t help but notice the frenzy of shoppers filling their carts to the brim with sweaters and pajamas and video games. Now, I could digress into the subject of “stuff,” and [...]

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Love Your Life: 17 Ways to Ditch a Funk

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It’s the holiday season. Our stockings have been hung by the chimney with care. We have decked our halls. My holiday linens and dishes have been pulled from storage to grace my table, and my porcelain nativity has been placed under one of the Christmas trees.  There is something about this time of year that [...]

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Shush Your Inner Critic: Reach For Help

Help Wanted aka Petty Perplexed by Gil Elvgren

It hurts my heart when I hear about the sufferings of others.  It drives me to go into action, desiring to comfort and then brainstorm in an attempt to help them uncover what’s really going on.   There is something so transformative that happens, once you can get to the why. And to be totally honest [...]

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