A jolt of positive energy can give a huge boost wherever you find yourself at these days. We need these little bursts of light at any life stage: The taking care and concern for those you love, when your kids are young or teenagers, when your View Post
Great Tips: What to Write on Cards for People You Love
There are always occasions to write a card to someone you love: Whether you celebrate and send cards for birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, Teacher Appreciation Day or any other occasion to honor, thank, praise, or View Post
Writing Prompts for Pain: Mindful Journaling Your Way Toward Health
There’s an expressive writing and mindfuI journaling workshop I teach, for people who have chronic or persistent pain. It’s meant to be a helpful adjunct to one’s medical care and many who come have found their way to me through pain management or View Post
Finding Peace in Change and Chaos
Keeping peace of mind IS a mind space that can be hard to embody as the world churns and turns. Before I start standing up and singing “Give Peace a Chance,” I will say the more we can do to calm ourselves down first, when we’re undergoing View Post
Beginner’s Guide: Ditch Perfection & Embrace You
In the perfectionist Olympics, no one wins. Any gold, silver, or bronze is only illusory, just out of reach when one could "always do better.” Speaking as a “still-struggling, but-recovering” perfectionist: one who’s proud to say it’s not View Post
Ideas to Notice What’s Going RIGHT!
Do you ever simply stop and think about all that’s going right? Though the news and many personal events in our lives often capture our attention and put a laser focus on what is not going right, a minor shift in our view to what is going right can View Post
Where to Find Hope
Many people I speak with, and those I see as well, are tired. It's been a long year and a half, and even when you're grateful for the good things that have happened, it's been challenging. I think more than ever about the ability to cultivate hope, View Post
How Moments of Awe Can Inspire Your Healthy Outlook!
Blame it on a bargain at the local Tuesday Morning store. They were selling seed kits with everything needed to plant them at a real bargain. Or maybe it was the seeds I received from the Chula Vista library, in a package they sent at the height of View Post
Hack: Rock Your Goals With An Accountability Buddy
In life, we sometimes need accountability buddies. Have you found that in “difficult-to-start” new projects, you sometimes need a person to help you stay accountable: an accountability buddy? I have! I’m not talking about a coach or a mental health View Post
How to Create a Life Pie That Gets You Delicious Results!
Human beings are often human doings. We often too easily discount how much we do accomplish or how far we’ve come, and can forget to look back and see that where we are now is possibly exactly where we wanted to be with a goal we set for ourselves View Post