Are you living on the corner of Happy and Healthy?

Last night when walking home from the T I passsed Walgreens thinking I’m not exactly sure YOU are the corner of Happy and Healthy but it’s an ingenus marketing campaign.  I mean, who wouldn’t want to live at that corner, right?  Eternal bliss of health and wellness…sign me up!  I expecially liked the poster when…

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Love, Love, Love

  My friends I have missed you! Sorry for my difficulty in finding time for tea with you all.  Life has been crazy lately with the creation of my upcoming website and the Harvard Medical School’s Coaching and Leadership conference over the past two days.  I had the amazing opportunity to be among people in…

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Creating Kindness from Within

  When talking about loving kindness with clients, I am always reminded that creating a loving and kind relationship with ourselves can be the most challenging of all.  Unless you are sociopathic, you are fairly to very good at being kind to others.  You may even be the person who is always willing and ready…

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Cool your jets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I   Cool your jets my Mom would say.  Interesting as calming anger has often been spoken of in Buddhist literature as coolng the fires within.  Recently the topic of anger came up and it got me thinking.  I have been talking a whole lot about happiness; possibly to the point of overdose on the…

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Living on the Sunny Side of the Street

Just a typical summer evening in my kitchen…how can you not look on the bright side with this scenery?   Being a person who has a sudden and fierce interest in happiness is not always met with happiness. I have noticed that as I discuss with people my material and this blog that it has…

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Forgiveness…a gift of your choosing

The idea for this post came from a reader who shared her story of healing from  trauma.  She made me realize that something was missing from our discussion on practicing non attachment to our wounds in our chat Living Beyond Limits  Forgiveness first to ourselves and then towards those who have harmed us is crucial in…

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Igniting the Fire Within

So I have been on hiatus for the past week.  Spending time within; resting and restoring.  It’s a time of big change, not just for myself, but for most people these days.  A lesson I learned along the way is knowing when to hold em and when to fold em.  The ability to know when…

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Living beyond limits

  All this focus on happiness has filled in a missing link for me.  It is the missing puzzle piece in my career thus far which is probably why I am ferociously  all over it now. The picture is getting clearer and bigger as we sit for tea.  Yesterday I was reading and writing about…

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Laugh and love:)

  These days I have love on my brain and happiness in my heart so bear with me as I continue on the love fest.  Today’s topic….smiles and a little self love.  Nothing causes the kind of smiles that happen when we see a  laughing baby.  I have this YouTube clip in my favorites and…

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All we need is love, love, love is all we need.

  The more I research happiness, the more I come back to love. What’s funny is that it seems that love can end up being the thing we focus on the least. We know it’s important but we can tend to take love for granted. We focus our attention instead on paying the bills, meeting…

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