Bouncing Back to Resilient You
Lately I have talked to many people about the concept of resiliency. The Webster Dictionary definition of resilient is “flexible, pliable, supple, malleable.” When I think of resiliency I always think of the old toy from the 80s….the slinky!! For those of you not in the know….the slinky was a wire spiral toy that was…
Read MoreManifest Your Destiny
So this beautiful display of faith and hope happened last night. It was in a haze of peaks and valleys recently where I decided that how was I to speak of positive psychology to my clients and students if I was not to practice it for myself. Here I have all these books, articles, blog…
Read MoreBe Free to Be You
These days I have been taking a bit of a time out to recoup and move forward. Life gave me a huge one two knock out a couple of weeks ago and I am working towards becoming upright again. I spoke in our last chat Get Up Stand Up .about having taken a stand to…
Read MoreGet up Stand Up
The field of social work was founded by this amazing woman, Jane Adams. She was a pioneer, activist, wriwho stter and all around a woman stood up for the rights when it was unheard of for a woman to have a voice. She formed settlement houses to help the poor and blazed a trail for…
Read MoreLast Words
My friend…I hear this song will be playing at your services so I thought I would post it here. In this space where I will honor you in the best way I know how. Through words written in love. Oh Jesus here comes the water being shed. I seriously debated whether I would chat about…
Read MoreStep Out on Faith
In our last chat What 2015 Taught Me we chatted about how emotional 2015 was for most of us and the strength, courage and faith it taught me to cultivate. Today we are going to talk more about the heart. Literally that is. These days hearts are everywhere. When I say everywhere I seriously mean…
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Happy New Year by the way….a little late I know. I have been quiet the last few days. Taking a Sabbath of sorts. Just back from a facial with my amazing esthetician and friend, Charity from Katana Spa & Salon and am finally beginning to make some sense of things without turning into a big pile…
Read MoreOvercome the Beast Within
It has been a while since our last chat. Life has been a bit long and hard lately. ‘Tis the season for as much stress as one can handle without snapping and being on the news. Interestingly the stress I have been under has very little to do with the season so to speak. It is more…
Read MoreHonor Your Ideas
Today is the second day after Thanksgiving. The second day I have had totally and completely off. It is strange to have space to just be. It feels decadent. The kind of decadent that match eating a piece of flourless chocolate cake. Serious. Yesterday I had the most magical day. I spent it doing yoga, making broth…
Read MoreThe Process of Life
Words that a perfectionistic person without patience hates to hear LIFE IS A PROCESS UGH Lately it has been incredibly hard to just be with the process of life as it’s unfolding. I want to rush through things or better yet stay in bed and ignore them. I find that I am incredibly moody…
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