by Debra Smouse | May 22, 2024 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
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,...
by Debra Smouse | Feb 28, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
Most of what I write here in the blog is about how I stay devoted to my desire to live a conscious life, because I know that the biggest challenge to staying devoted to the kind of life we say we want to live requires routines, rituals, and a variety of little tricks...
by Debra Smouse | Jan 8, 2024 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
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...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 28, 2023 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
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...
by Debra Smouse | Feb 28, 2021 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
The year I stopped making resolutions was also the year I stopped giving things up for Lent. That year, I spent regular time at a Buddhist Monastery in order to learn to meditate. As a life coach, though I know we can’t separate our bodies from our mind nor our souls....
by Debra Smouse | Nov 30, 2019 | Tricky Situations
One of the modules in my Finally Love Your Life course has to do with aging. And though the module focuses on the choice to soften into aging rather than becoming more bitter, there is an underlying question of caring for yourself as you get older. Here’s some...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 17, 2019 | Tricky Situations
If you want to love your life, it’s important that you learn how to spend time alone. Even if you’re in the healthiest of relationships, learning to enjoy your alone time allows you to be a better person in all of your relationships. That’s because...