by Debra Smouse | Aug 26, 2016 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
Each and every day, I am inspired by the raw honesty and vulnerability of the people I work with. Clients, colleagues, and friends fuel my mind and my spirit. They remind me that this human experience is both glorious and hard. I’m constantly amazed by the way I...
by Debra Smouse | May 18, 2016 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
It is the year 2016 and I am turning forty-eight. Every year at this time, I catalog the lessons I’ve learned in the previous year. I do this, not just to have the record of what lessons I learned, but also to serve as a reminder of what I am choosing: the continual...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 6, 2015 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
It won’t be long before Thanksgiving arrives, with thoughts of turkey and pumpkin pie. As we move into the month of November, we will be surrounded with thoughts of gratitude and the hashtag #blessed populating your Facebook and Instagram feeds. And, I am all about...
by Debra Smouse | Aug 19, 2015 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
The story I shared with you about my return to writing in a paper journal was only one story of bonfires. You see, I’ve built more than one of those blazes in my lifetime and I’m sure there are more to come. Building a bonfire to destroy old truths and...
by Debra Smouse | Jul 1, 2015 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating a new year, yet here we are halfway through the year. For those of us in the United States, the 4th of July Holiday celebrating Our Nation’s Birth and independence marks the down-slide side of summer. So let me ask: are...
by Debra Smouse | May 20, 2015 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
My forty-seventh birthday was this week. It passed without angst despite the fact that fifty seems incredibly close. Maybe I’m making peace with aging more than I was this time last year. Or maybe fifty just doesn’t seem as scary as it seemed. Or maybe I’m kind of...
by Debra Smouse | Oct 30, 2014 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
I spent time recently with some quite accomplished women that I know and adore. It’s soul tending and love and companionship and intimate and connection and life affirming all rolled into conversations over coffee and meandering walks and three course dinners. I know...