by Debra Smouse | Oct 22, 2024 | Life's Lessons, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
I would love to tell you that I am always the “Courage Whisperer”. It isn’t that I’m fearless. Or that I’ve completely mastered all my fears. Or so sure of myself that I am no longer feel uncertain or vulnerable. Or any kind of mastery of fear. It’s just that,...
by Debra Smouse | Aug 28, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
When someone asks me what one thing they can do to shift their life, without needing to think, ponder, or ruminate in any way, I answer “Gratitude.” Because while I’m a big fan of awareness to shift life, in times of uncertainty, a gratitude practice will help...
by Debra Smouse | Aug 15, 2024 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
I don’t know about you, but with the world in chaos, sometimes sleep alludes me. It’s as if my mind has, well, a mind of it’s own. The days news plays in my head alongside the things I didn’t get checked off my to-do list. And so I find myself...
by Debra Smouse | Jul 2, 2024 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
singIt seems like only yesterday we were celebrating a new year, yet here we are smack dab in the middle of the year. Hello, July! And one of the laments I hear from clients is they feel we’re half-way through the year, yet they haven’t made enough progress on any of...
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 | 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 | Jul 15, 2022 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All
We have a ritual on workdays. JB comes home from work, we open a bottle of wine, and we sit out on the deck and talk about our respective days. This is harder on him than I; he is an introvert around people all day and I am the extrovert who works alone at home. Of...