When You Shine a Light on Your Fears It Allows You to Choose Happiness
If there is a feeling I know intimately, it’s fear. As a child, I was afraid of the dark and slept with my closet light on. I closed the closet door, of course, because the open space and shadows coming from the closet were scary, too. A tiny sliver of light, however,...
Productive Not Busy: How to Love Your Life More
People get a fresh start in the fall, as if it’s Back to School is for all of us. It’s no wonder that the number one wish I’m hearing is to be more productive. You’ve decided that now is the time when you are going to get busy and slay all your dragons...
How to Recover Yourself When You Backslide into Old Habits
Creating a life you love is really about finding pleasure in the day-to-day living. To seek the gems in the midst of the craziness that sometimes accompanies us in this life. It also involves feeling the gamut of feelings. We focus on those sweet feelings, the joyful...
Have a Case of the Holiday Blues? Here’s 13 Ways to Chase Them Away
Want to know what I’m hearing a lot this month? Folks just aren’t in the holiday spirit. It’s been a tough year. And the holidays are making it even rougher. Because, not only have they fallen away from regular routines. The old traditions that used...
Give Yourself a Gift: Don’t Allow Tired to Lead to Holiday Burnout
Are you feeling more than a little tired, darling? There is so much that demands our time in the normal course of life, but as we move from Thanksgiving, into December, and then towards a brand new year, the demands on our time expand. In part, it can be a push from...
Worry: What I’m Giving Up for Lent
Fourteen years ago, not only did I quit making New Year’s resolutions, I also stopped giving up stuff for Lent. Instead of the annual ritual of temporarily sacrificing some arbitrary thing (chocolate, frou-frou coffee, eating out, whatever), I took a class on...
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