by Debra Smouse | Mar 3, 2025 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
When my ex-husband moved out of our house after seventeen years there together, one of the first things I did was head to a local home improvement store to buy flowers. Though that was more than two decades ago, I can still clearly see the gold and bronze mums I...
by Debra Smouse | Feb 13, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
February is a time of love. For the romantics, Valentine’s Day is a time of flowers and romance, while for the cynics, it is a red and pink Hallmark holiday. Men and women alike share feelings of shame and failure if they are not in picture perfect...
by Debra Smouse | Feb 11, 2025 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Life's Lessons
Let me ask you a question, darling: do you want to just bounce around in life or do you want to achieve or create something? I’ll be honest and tell you that nothing is wrong with simply being, but I am guessing that if you were to push aside the fears and the...
by Debra Smouse | Jan 16, 2025 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
I know something about you, darling. You have these delicious nuggets of desire, big dreams, and these longings of ideas that you know would work if you dared. Yet you don’t move forward with any kind of vision. Perhaps it’s because you don’t know where to start...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 24, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
If there’s one thing I know to be true, it’s that we are always surrounded by love, grace, and magic. These are core beliefs that have guided me for many years. Yet, to be honest with you, there have been long moments this year when I have forgotten that I am loved...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 23, 2024 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted
It’s the holiday season. Our stockings have been hung by the chimney with care. We have decked our halls. My holiday linens and dishes have been pulled from storage to grace my table, and my porcelain nativity has been placed under one of the Christmas trees. There...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 22, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
The holidays are upon us. Christmas is mere moments away. And as I stock the house with necessities like paper towels, pasta and coffee, I can’t help but notice the frenzy of shoppers filling their carts to the brim with sweaters and pajamas and video games. Now, I...