I came across this poem I wrote down a few years ago & wanted to share it with you. It’s from a documentary, “A Beautiful Truth”. I loved this, so wrote it down. It seems it’s an adaptation of a poem by Michael Josephson (the verbiage seems to be slightly different). In any case, I […]
Yes! The holidays are upon us once again. Time to shop til you drop, decorate the house to the hilt, make the blow out holiday dinner and everything absolutely MUST be perfect… right? ‘I simply must have the latest, greatest new fangled thing-a-ma-bobber… or how will my family and friends know I love them? I
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When the world feels uncertain, it can be challenging to think about making plans for your future. Allowing yourself to stay stuck in uncertainty can also feel very stressful and cause anxiety. You don’t have to accept the uncertainty. You can make plans anyway. There is always some level of uncertainty in life. Making plans
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My Grandpa used to say “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.” It turns out that’s actually a famous quote. However at the time I didn’t know it and I always think of it as something my Grandpa used to say. I didn’t understand why you would not believe something
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People often give in to the holiday temptations without even putting up a fight. They just throw in the towel before the holiday season even begins, assuming it will be too hard to be healthy during this time of year. That is simply not true. As with every other day you live, it is completely
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“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” –Norman Vincent Peale Life can get any of us down at times. It might even feel like the weight of the world is
It’s November, 2020 and with the highly intensified US election results looming, I’m hearing the big box stores are jam packed, toilet paper is flying off the shelves and people are once again hoarding… prepping… hoardng… whatever… Well, when this happened in March, something very unusual and unexpected happened to me… I had a couple
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Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in stuff? A friend once said something to me to the effect… ‘When you have a big house, you fill it with stuff then you have to take care of that stuff. That takes time, effort and money.’ That statement sort of threw me off. I didn’t think
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When the normal routine of our lives is shaken up, we can feel the angst of uncertainty. Why, though, does this kind of change cause us to feel anxious and stressed? And maybe more importantly, what can we do about it? Humans are hardwired to crave certainty and the ability to reasonably predict what will
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Are you stressing out over making everything perfect? Do you run around, tripping over yourself to make that holiday dinner or get-together absolute perfection only to not have the time nor energy to enjoy it yourself? Are family trips more of a burden than a vacation because you want to make sure everything goes the
