Are We Loving Well?

I enter this bookstore cafe today, a place I have been a thousand times but today my heart cracks open.  Today, I see before me, the counter service of the cafe is now open.  For the first time in sixteen months, I sit here with my tea, sweet potato fries and a yellow writing tablet.…

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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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Let Go, Let Flow: Take Five Thousand

Let Go, Let Flow…such a beautiful sentiment right?  Oh so yogic and spiritual in nature.  The sentiment brings up an image of me, walking down the beach, with a cool breeze in my hair as it bounces and behaves like this girl in this 1980s Pert shampoo commercial… Ah yes, to have bouncing and behaving…

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Five Steps to Managing Burnout from Stress

Overcoming stress burnout feels like a lofty goal for some these days.  It seems that everyone is so overwhelmed with the pressures of daily living that the concept of overcoming the accompanying stress feels like just another thing on the proverbial “To Do” list.  Most people are just trying to keep their head above water.…

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