Today is a Good Day…To Have a Good Day

Today is 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…

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Taking 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…

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Building 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…

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Connecting 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…

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Love 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.…

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In 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…

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Love 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…

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Love 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…

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Making 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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