by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
When it comes to pursuing our happiness, one of the biggest barriers to actually BEING happy is our inability to focus on the here and now. We worry about the past. We focus on the unknown in the future. Our minds slip away from what’s happening and slides down the...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | Tricky Situations
Stress is part of everyday life, and the fast-paced lifestyles of lawyers are no different. The severity of stressful events may vary, but they trigger a set of biological and behavioral reactions that help us deal with the situation. These changes may be adaptive in...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
If you were to ask me a life hack that will always lead to loving your life, I’d tell you it begins when you choose to declutter your life. Though you may think of decluttering when it comes to your stuff, clutter doesn’t stop with things. No, darling, there’s also...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | Nifty Life Hacks
The Stillness Beneath the Stuff There’s a kind of silence that settles under clutter—but it’s not the peaceful kind. It’s the heavy, unspoken tension of a room left untouched for too long. The low-grade hum of unease in a hallway corner stacked with things no one...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | Tricky Situations
Let’s get real for a second—how many times have you brushed off your fatigue, your cramps, your aches, or your migraines as just “normal”? For a lot of women, pain is so constant and so ignored by the healthcare system that it becomes background noise. You chalk it up...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 9, 2025 | Tricky Situations
You look around, and you have made quite a nice little life for yourself. Sure, little things can irritate you around your home, but generally, life is good. You take your cup of coffee outside to get the paper in the morning, move the garbage bins down to the street,...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 8, 2025 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
Imagine you wake up on top of the world. You’re to do list is in order. And nothing can stop you. But then, in the blink of an eye, one of the wheels on your tightly scheduled day falls off. And you feel as if your life is careening out of control. And you ask...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 8, 2025 | Nifty Life Hacks
Look around your home and notice the amount of stuff you have. How much of that do you really need, and how much of it is junk you hold on to because… Well, who knows why, you do. You probably don’t even know how much stuff you have, and you’d be shocked...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 7, 2025 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
When it comes to creating change, most folks will tell you that you have to move away from comfort and into discomfort in order to make it happen. You’ll see phrases and quotes like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone…” “Move out of your comfort zone. “ “You...
by Debra Smouse | Jun 7, 2025 | Nifty Life Hacks
A signature scent usually adds the finishing touch to your appearance and while you can put perfume on your skin, many like to spray their clothes with it. Some fabrics can be harmed by fragrances, while others do not react at all. How fragrance and fabric react can...