by Debra Smouse | Feb 26, 2016 | Life's Lessons
How do we manage the uncomfortable feel of liminal spaces in our lives? It’s a question that’s come up in more than one conversation recently with clients, colleagues, and friends in recent weeks. Why does this happen and what can we do about it? It’s a funky time of...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 20, 2015 | Life's Lessons
Is this the Holiday Season or Complaint season? Lines are too long, checkers are too slow, and there’s too much traffic. I was remind how it can feel like complaint season when I went to Target this afternoon for paper towels and laundry detergent. It was the...
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 11, 2015 | Life's Lessons
Last week I shared a little history of my personal experiences with journal writing, including the time my mother found and destroyed all the journals I’d kept from childhood through college. Even if you haven’t been in the exact same situation, I’m...
by Debra Smouse | Apr 21, 2015 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Pretty much every person I know who chooses to cultivate a daily life they love eventually reaches similar roadblocks. Sure, there are the common side effects of our choice to live a conscious life: our wardrobe no longer fits our lifestyle, or we hate the dishes we...
by Debra Smouse | Jan 22, 2015 | Life's Lessons
For a decade now, I’ve been using the process of choosing one to three words to serve as a focus and theme for my year. Like life, some years are easier to stay on point than others, but it never fails to amaze me at the end of the year how my choice has focused,...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 5, 2014 | Life's Lessons
We are knee deep into the holiday season. Thanksgiving is behind us, we are approaching the second Sunday of Advent, and before we know it, Christmas and New Years are upon us. It’s a hard time of year for many thanks to the Ghosts of Christmas Past. I try to remember...