For Moms Who Cringe When Told to “Enjoy It”
Enjoy it. It’s such an overused phrase, especially to moms of young children. Though well intended, it can be laced with guilt – for the moms who aren’t sleeping, who have the baby blues, or postpartum...
View ArticleHow Improving Your Health, Improves Your Love Life
If you’re always on the couch, munching on Cheetos and making the remote all orange and dusty while you nod sagely at everything Judge Judy says, you’ve got to know why your love life is like your...
View ArticleBoundary Tools to Shut down Narcissists & Take Your Power Back
Do you feel powerless in your relationship? If your partner wins every argument by expertly twisting your words and the facts to the point that you end up apologizing or completely confused about what...
View ArticleGetting It Done and Unleashing Your Creative Genius!
We all have heartfelt dreams that we want to create. But just writing the to-do list or thinking about our desires is not enough. It takes action. It takes commitment. It takes time and effort. Yet do...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time! How to Survive the Loss of an Hour of Sleep.
There’s a very helpful Daylight Saving Time mnemonic: “spring forward, fall back.” This Sunday, we “spring forward” and turn our clocks ahead one hour — which means losing an hour of sleep. And for...
View ArticleChildhood Bullying and What You Can Do
Childhood Bullying There are few people who have not experienced bullying at some point in their lives. Many have participated in bullying behavior themselves. My youth included being the target of...
View ArticleDo You Feel Unsuccessful? Read This and You May Change Your Mind.
Success is a very relative term. It makes us blind to our originality. Instead of focusing on our visions, we try to fit in somewhere and pretend like it’s okay. The success and happiness will come...
View ArticleFacing the First Anniversary of My Friend’s Death
A year ago a close friend of mine found out she was dying. A year on I have started to prepare for the anniversary of her death. Because grief anniversaries matter to me, a lot. Why? What are grief...
View ArticleJust Try It
I had time over the weekend to pull the garden apart and prep it for a new spring’s planting of herbs and flowers. I had such a nice time by myself out there in the dirt, but I was a little bit worried...
View ArticlePandering Never Builds a Legacy
I’m as guilty as anyone else who says that to build a business, or a blog, it’s good to ask people what they want and then give it to them. It works! But there’s another side to this thinking, and I...
View ArticleWhy Your Life Partner Is NOT Your Soul Mate
In most of the articles you read out there the terms are used interchangeably. Your life partner is your soul mate. You might as well call them life mates and soul partners. But are they really that...
View ArticleHow to Add Value to Your Life
What are the most valuable things everyone should know? When I would stay up all night anxious and scared and afraid about money and love and life, I had no rules to live by. I expected too much. I was...
View ArticleThe Most Powerful Possible Yes to Women
…to the women determined to restore the divine to where it has been pummeled out of memory, where denial is so calcified that our beauty is last to be seen in economics and science and law — laws that...
View ArticleUsing the Law of Attraction for Joy, Relationships, Money & More
The Law of Attraction is the most powerful law in the universe. Just like gravity, it is always in effect, always in motion. It is working in your life at this very moment. You are always in a state of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to My Cerebral Palsy
This is a project I have wanted to do for quite some time now, but I was waiting on the right time to do it. I feel like today is the day, and I think it will be a great cathartic activity for me. So,...
View ArticleIn Memory of the Students Who Perished in Parkland
A father wanted to entertain his little girl so he could have some time alone. He cut out a picture of the world from the newspaper and gave her the pieces to put together. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle,”...
View ArticleDoes Winter Make You S.A.D.?
With it still technically being Winter, (even with daylight savings time this past weekend), do you find you suffer from ‘The Winter Blues’? As a psychotherapist, I have found that over the years I...
View ArticleI Was Not Myself for Two Weeks
After getting to the other side of about two weeks of sleep deprivation from jetlag, more cross-country travel, late nights / early mornings, getting off my routine, and WAY too much on my mind, I am...
View ArticleLike Jung and Wharton, Do You Remember When You First Knew Yourself?
In my writing about habits and happiness, I kept coming back to the same idea: to shape our habits, to build our happiness, we have to start with a knowledge of ourselves — our own nature, our own...
View ArticleAre You Open to the Idea of Creation?
If you’re following me on social media, you may have noticed I spent the last few weeks over in Oz. A few days in the glorious sand of Hamilton Island (top 10 places for sure) and then down in Sydney...
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