
How to make New Year’s Resolutions stick
We’re about a week into 2019 - How is it going with the resolutions, goals or intentions you set for the New Year? If you’re like me (and most people I know), you’ll find yourself questioning some of your resolutions by now, and before the end of January over half of...

Helpful Tips to Keeping Your Inner Werewolf Calm During a Full Moon or Eclipse
What’s the effect of the full moon on you? Is Ms. Luna making you, things or people a little “looney”? Feeling eclipsed by someone or something? Whether or not you feel a little (or a lot) at the effect of the moon (or others who are, act like they are or simply...

Spring Blues – What Do You Say Or Not Say To Someone Going Through Hard Times
Lately I’ve been in conversations about the sadness and loneliness that can be triggered for many people by this seemingly over-active spring with its roller coaster weather that mimics a very hormonal teenager... I guess, when we are in the midst of a change or...

7 Reasons Why You Should Share Your Daily Gratitude Practice – Part 3
Sharing my gratitude practice with a small circle of friends has brought me the following benefits: Accountability: Getting through the first 40 days of creating a new practice habit is hard for me. Having partners, especially during that “initiation time,” is really...

How Do You Practice Gratitude When Life Challenges You – Part 2
Yes, even in the midst of seemingly unbearable pain it is possible to find gratitude. I’m not talking about using gratitude as a “spiritual bypass”, a bypass for human emotion that is uncomfortable: You know, the moments when others try to comfort us in the best way...

As I Began To Love Myself – A Poem By Charlie Chaplin
When was the last time you looked in the mirror? This morning? During your coffee break? Don’t really remember? What was that like, and what did you see? Was it a quick “functional check” to make sure you’re still there? Or, that the toothpaste was all gone, no new...

Helpful Tips On How to Create A Successful Gratitude Practice – Part 1
Why and how to start your own Gratitude Practice This past week marked 730 days of my daily gratitude practice: 2 years of sharing 5 things I am grateful for each day with 2 friends - who are also sharing their 5 gratitudes, and then we each reflect back to one...

Shared Agreements for our Gratitude Practice
Here is an example of a shared agreement that I use for the gratitude practice that I mention in my blog posts “Why and How to start your own Gratitude Practice” and “The Science behind creating a new habit.” Every relationship is basically a fabric of shared...

Freeing The Proverbial “Elephant In The Room”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the proverbial elephant in the room... The things we don’t say, because we don’t want to be a burden we assume the other doesn’t want to or is not able to hear what we have to say we want to be kind or polite we are afraid they might not...

How To Feel Your Feelings – Not Their Shadow
"Feel the Feeling – Drop the Story" - Pema Chödrön I have spent most of my life “in my head”, practicing my “intellectual intelligence” – and for the most part I did not really know that I did that… It seemed so normal to “think things through” in order to understand:...

How To Go From Thinking About a New Year’s Resolution To Actually Creating The Love And Life You Want
New Year’s Eve has come and gone – and with it the disappointment of once again feeling lonely as everyone around you greets the new year with an embrace and a kiss as you look on… but it still feels raw when you think about it… You are determined more than ever that...
