Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’
Today is a Good Day…To Have a Good Day
Claiming today as a good day is a practice. This morning I was sitting out on my fire escape sipping tea staring out at my beautiful flowers as I listened to the birds sing their songs. Ok, let me be more honest with you…..my mind was a bit more consumed with a situation that…
Read MoreTaking Life Step by Step
Summer begins to fade into Fall here in New England and the leaves are already beginning to turn. Life continues to churn on. Summer fresh salads turn to slow cooked stews. Light clothing is replaced by warm snuggles and what later seems like layers upon layers upon layers of warmth. On my way to visit…
Read MoreBuilding Resilience
Resilience…one of my favorite topics to speak about. This morning I stepped out into what felt like extreme cold with my mind going “WTF?!” As I scraped the ice off my windshield a voice inside my head said several other four letter words that were part of the familiar narrative that my mind creates about…
Read MoreConnecting Mind to Heart
Recently in our chat Good Sh*t Happens we spoke about keeping your head up and seeing the positive within the negative. Today I thought we could chat about how to heck to do that when your mind is saying “be afraid, be very very afraid.” You could be having these thoughts about the current state of…
Read MoreLove is the Answer
There is so much about life these days that is stressful. We could talk about the pace in which people are moving and the lack of boundaries between work and personal lives. We could go on and on about the financial pressures that people are feeling and the pressure to keep up with the Jones.…
Read MoreIn Transition
Transitions are often times the hardest; in between what was and what will be. The in between is often known to be the place where beauty resides whilst the pain of not knowing where the future will take you. This is the place I have been lately. In between. In fact this has been a…
Read MoreLove is Everything
Love is Everything. This is what has been on my mind since we last chatted. It has been a very long time since our last chat.; longer than I would have liked. My attention has been on other things such as the topic of love. It all began with seeing this movie in June when…
Read MoreStressed Out Millennial….Some Words of Wisdom from a Gen Xer
Got Stress Millennials???? I am hearing screams of a Hell’s Yeah coming from the masses! These days I am surrounded by young people and most of them are stressed to the MAX. Whether they are clients or people I meet networking who are college students, just getting out of college and into the work force…
Read MoreLove More, Worry Less
Love More, Worry Less….I think as I leave the day long loving kindness workshop I attended at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) In Cambridge, MA this past Saturday. I’m irritated on the T today and I remember to breathe and say the three statements from the workshop… May I be safe and protected May I…
Read MoreMaking Peace with the Battle Within
Making peace with the battle within today is going to be a challenge for most of us! Why you ask? Well because it’s a full moon and lunar eclipse silly. This means it is a bit CRAY CRAY all over the place! Oddly, this full moon is called a “snow moon.” Odd because we just had…
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