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Where Do Our Ideas and Beliefs Come From?  We each carry inside us the ideas and beliefs that make us who we are. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself where they came from? Why do […]

Out With the Old and In With the New Every year as December arrives and January can be seen on the horizon, we often hear the expression “out with the old and in with the new!” Don […]

Nurturing the Roots: My Postpartum Journey In the quiet military community of Fort Irwin, CA, there lived a young mother of twins. Her days were filled with the laughter of her newborn sons, […]

Beyond the Buzz “Mental Health” has gone from buzz to BUZZ in recent years. While this can only be seen as a positive shift, I’m curious how many of us even know […]

The Journey Within: Healing and Rediscovering “The only journey is the journey within.” We are all so obsessed with our physical appearance—how your dress makes you look, how your hair is to […]

Mindset Booster The goal   Being able to spend more time with yourself and enjoy your own company!  To reach this lofty goal, we need a massive mindset bo […]

Stepping Off the High Wire: Embracing Balance and Mental Wellbeing Imagine life as a high wire act. Each day, we step out onto the wire, managing our professional responsibilities on one hand and personal […]

In the Loop Happy New Year! Here we are in 2024. It came faster than I anticipated and last year went by like a flash. It feels like we are in the movie […]

If You Fail To Plan, You Are Planning To Fail It is January 1st. I create a copy of my 2023 goals, rename it to 2024, and start to evaluate my plan. I evaluate each of the categories: Career, […]

Joy Is A Choice This past weekend I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech at a local Toastmasters conference. I opened by reciting the opening to Robert […]

Dancing in the Rain: Finding Joy  “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives” -Russel M. Nel […]

Money and Loneliness Two grandmothers sat sipping tea and quietly lamenting over their relationship with their grandchildren.  The first spoke: “I am so sad.  It see […]

Cousin Marty Dear Reader, We have this saying in our house that come October, it’s just really a slippery slope of holidays, one after the other, bouncing u […]

Listen   So here I go. Listen, that is what I was told to do recently in my time with the divine. This was ridiculous. I am a therapist, paid to […]

Embrace Joy Amidst Barriers In the corporate symphony where women often play the unsung maestros, joy can sometimes feel like a distant melody. We are masters at orchestrating […]

The Simplicity of Joy My Little Place I have a quiet corner in my house. It is ironically positioned near the front entry of our home. You wouldn’t think that this p […]

What You’re Thinking About How often do you think about what you’re thinking about? With life moving at a breakneck pace these days, I’m guessing not nearly often eno […]

When Stress Hits, Have the Time of Your Life Remember when you were young and the most exciting time of the year seemed to be fall? That first morning you opened the door to head out but then […]

The Wonder Woman Complex Growing up I was a straight A student. My family valued my independence and I leaned into their praise. It became part of my identity. I learned […]

You, Me, and Our Growing Edges Dear Reader, As many of you know, in the fall of 2020 I chose to make a dramatic change to coaching services: I implemented the Stretch Method […]