by Debra Smouse | Jul 29, 2025 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
We’re at the time of year when reality has begun to set in. Those resolutions we made as the past year was ending don’t feel as fresh. Or, well, as exciting as they did. There are a lot of reasons why. Sometimes it’s as simple as the goals not really...
by Debra Smouse | Jul 29, 2025 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Oh, darling, let me be honest with you. The last year has been made up of me sitting at my desk on the computer. And a heck of lot less time on my feet moving my body . (Goodbye, Peloton streak!) What this has translated to is what you’d expect: less flexibility and...
by Debra Smouse | Jul 14, 2025 | Life's Lessons
It Begins With Choosing to Create Your Day It was a typical Tuesday morning and I had committed to taking a bike ride at least three times that week. Monday had been rainy, and I knew that if a ride didn’t happen today I would find all kinds of reasons and make...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 4, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
You have an epiphany and it isn’t a happy one: it’s that moment when you’re standing neck deep in awareness and you just can’t ignore any longer. Maybe you’re at a routine visit to the doctor, when you’re presented with the blood test results that tell you...
by Debra Smouse | May 28, 2025 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Darling, are you tired of colliding thoughts? Do you feel as if your passions have been buried under layers and layers of existing? Are you so overwhelmed with “to-dos” that you don’t have time to acknowledge what you really desire? Are you channeling Scarlett O’Hara...
by Debra Smouse | May 19, 2025 | Life's Lessons
Want to know the first step to falling in love with your life? By choosing to get off the fence of uncertainty and deciding that you are going to do it. I know it sounds simple, but darling, we often underestimate the power of decision. Many people don’t want to...
by Debra Smouse | Apr 22, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
When it comes to happiness, you may be wondering where authenticity comes in. Because I know that in order to be happy, we must be able to be ourselves. Warts and all, so to speak. Yet, the flip-side of all that authenticity is that if you are authentic without...