How to set yourself up for success I was recently gifted a free goal coaching session. This lady was good**. She wouldn’t let me get away with much. One of her first questions was, “How can you live your Brain-Based Transformation Coaching message?” “Uh…” Blink. Blink. “By… doing the work I’m called to do, and [...]

I learn my lessons in strange places It has not gone unnoticed that this is not the first post about public washrooms I’ve written this year. I admit it’s peculiar that this is a time for me to learn and grow. To the average person a washroom is merely a time to attend to the [...]

A few posts back, I wrote about cycles and natural rhythms. In that post I candidly described how I came to understand how crucial it is to love all the aspects of myself. I’m not saying I’m perfect at this 100% of the time. But I do try. I even try to love the part [...]

‘Tis the season. I can feel your panic. Rainbow lights filling the neighborhood. Different Christmas carols in every store. Snow (or frost) on the ground. The urgent obligation to get the perfect gift. A social calendar with enough appointments to fill 3 months. It’s here. The busiest, most expensive and most tempting time of the [...]

Getting more food out of your food I distinctly remember a line in the movie ‘Say Anything.’ (You know, that classic movie publicized by the image of the guy holding the stereo up above his head?) At one point Lloyd Dobler’s older sister looks at the junk food he is eating and says, “There’s no [...]

  Remember a couple weeks ago I wrote about teeny, tiny sticky notes? If you remember that – awesome! If you remember what that was actually about – even awesomer. The teeny, tiny sticky notes served as an example to ramble on about leaving ourselves enough room to be who we want to be on [...]

This spring and summer, I have been doing a lot of learning about cycles and rhythms in nature. I’ve been delving into how darkness flows into light, life shifts into death, and how winter springs into summer (I’m pretty proud of how I worded that last example). I have gained an increasingly deep appreciation for [...]

Rethinking Menopause at Ladies’ Night Earlier this month I did a mini presentation to a group of women at a car dealership of all places. Funny, eh? Funnier? Once a quarter they host a fun event, called “Ladies’ Night,” where they invite women from the community to attend. I have attended this event before as [...]

This was originally written after the loss of a dear loved one who passed away in the fall of 2011. It was titled, “Enjoy the Sunshine When You See It” and was posted on my previous blog. I couldn’t not have it as part of this new collection. I am re-posting it in loving and [...]