Water under the Bridge
Water is essential to life. It can also be a lot of fun. If you have never been tubing down a river, splashed in the ocean or dove into a cool mountain lake on a hot summer day, now is the time to consider the […]
Water is essential to life. It can also be a lot of fun. If you have never been tubing down a river, splashed in the ocean or dove into a cool mountain lake on a hot summer day, now is the time to consider the […]
Are you grappling with a toxic situation in your life? Maybe it’s a so-called friend who is not only unreliable, but only ever calls you when she needs something. Or maybe it is a work environment that spells poison. Perhaps it is your house that […]
If you are fed up with the pace of your life, you’re in luck because there’s a new book out dedicated to hard-working folks like you. Susan Lipman, the brilliant blogger over at Slow Family Online, just penned a book aptly called Fed Up with […]
Noise. We are surrounded by it more than we know. Whether it’s the television, our phones or airplanes overhead, we are subjected to a great deal of sound every day. Silence is very rare indeed. Yet it is in the silent inward gaze that we […]
I have been known to say “I used to be a nice person…until I had children.” Now that I’ve been at this parenting gig for well over a decade, I realize that children bring out everything in us that is unresolved, unattended or carefully hidden […]
Gazing at the picture of my thirty-year-old self with a baby in my arms, I had no idea what life had in store for me then. Soon after the picture was taken, I was confronted with the dilemma so many working women face today: dueling […]
Do you want to know the secret to a happy life? It starts with empathy. Research in young adults has shown empathy is associated with heightened sexual pleasure and I’m sure the older crowd could benefit from the effects of empathy in that department too. […]
Byron Katie asked herself a simple question as she lay in a half-way house, not sure if she would survive the next day. “Is it true?” It was the first time she actually challenged her own belief system, and what she found out was indeed […]
“What a stupid thing to do!” “How could I have done that?” “I’m soooo embarrased!” “I’m such an idiot.” We have all said these things to ourselves at one point in our lives. The negative self-talk in which we engage only serves to make us […]
About two months ago I made a radical change in the form of one baby step. The result was a shift in my worldview, I dropped ten pounds and have never been happier in my life. The baby step came in the form of no […]