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Love. How you can navigate the Art of Listening on Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is not just about celebrating love; it's a reminder that every day is an opportunity to cherish the love that surrounds us. Lately, I've found myself pondering the profound connection between love and listening. When we truly listen...
Uncovering the Hidden Roots: Exploring the Myths and Significance of Valentine’s Day
Does your control freak ever get the best of you?
Some of us will admit to it and others will swear that we don't have one. Mine popped out the other week, hence my drawing. The tail is the freaky part that can sting and squeeze. I guess the tail represents some part of me...
Break through your limiting beliefs joyfully using your creativity
I thought that I would share a creative process that I did to deal with the limiting beliefs or scrambles inside my mind. Hey - you may have some limiting beliefs that keep you stuck or afraid of doing something, just like me. Positive thinking alone will not get...
Can you be loving when anger triggers you?
Sometimes we feel so loving and at other times we find ourselves angry at something or someone. When a relationship is going well, it's so easy to access loving feelings. Even when the other person in front of us is angry, we're more likely to find the space inside...
4 Essential Tips so you can stop feeling misunderstood
Do you ever experience feeling misunderstood and wonder why? You think that you're speaking your own language. Whereas the other person is hearing something completely different. You're feeling misunderstood. I may think that I'm speaking to another English...
Do you ever feel discombobulated and wonder what can I do?
During the past 18-months, there are so many ways that each of us have experienced a sense of destabilizing uncertainty. Discombobulated and wondering what can I do. Discombobulated is such a great word! Except if English isn't your first language, you probably have...
Expect the Unexpected and reduce anxiety in our uncertain world
Do you expect the unexpected? When things are going well, we hope that we're in for a stretch of great experiences and good feelings. And bam - we get some negative news. We can deal with that one piece. Then there’s another incident that we had no control over and...
What does mental health have to do with Moving Ahead?
It's Mental Health Awareness month For many of us who feel healthy in body, mind and spirit we take it for granted that we keep moving ahead. Moving ahead - "Of course," says my avatar "the ant." In our strange pandemic times, how are each of us moving ahead? The...
What do you do when you make mistakes?
We all make mistakes - big and small. Some have huge ramifications and others are annoying. Hey I sent out an email with a link that went nowhere. Now that's annoying. My apologies if you tried clicking it. A plane going down through pilot error is another story. This...
Why the fish die off is disturbing and can you help?
This week's surprise. More strange and unprecedented things are happening. Why the fish die off? My surprise this week is finding so many dead fish on my walks by the shore. All of the fish are the same species, Atlantic menhanden. They're commonly known as bunker....
How to make the most of precious unexpected moments in life
Life is full of so many precious unexpected moments. And often they fly by and we don't notice them. It means that we have to be on the look out and notice something unusual. Sometimes the moments can be huge and other times very small. Noticing involves being present...
Happy Thanksgiving in the strangest of times
I’m trying to think of something humorous to lighten the strangest of times, when we can’t personally get together and be thankful. Sorry, I’m not great at jokes nor a comedian. What I can do is invite you to day dream. Imagine that the little girl or boy inside...
Plummet beauty from everyday life and wildly improve your mood
I had an experience this week, filled with beauty. I walked outside of my home office and I heard the next door neighbor’s 3 year old daughter calling me. She was at the usual place at the fence, fitting under the large shrubs. “Neighbor” she said. “I have something...
The Power of Story
I'm an avid public radio listener. Each Friday morning there's a special segment, which I love. For two minutes, I tap into the power of story. I stay riveted as regular folk interview each other. Friends with friends, aunts with a niece, or a young child interviewing...