Making Sure We Get What We Need by Practicing Self-Care

How often do we take time to get what we need? It’s so easy to get lost chasing what we want. Things to make life more fun, more entertaining, or looks more plentiful and successful? While it’s a blessing to reap the material rewards of hard work, commitment and dedication, it’s never sufficient enough without…

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3 Cheers for Variety

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.Audre Lorde

Gaining Time by Loosing Comparison

How much times he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Chasing Perfection Instead of Our Personal Best

Lately I’ve been wondering when daily life slowly emerges from the quiet, simple living of staying home to help stop the spread of covid19, if there will be a new attitude towards what makes life feel worthwhile? What matters most? What brings us joy? Will it be more about health? Family? Enjoying quite time? Enjoying…

An Essential Component to Happiness

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. Lawrence G. Lovasik

Hanging On When the World Turns Upside Down

I’m putting a hold on my follow up blog to last weeks blog Getting Comfortable With Our Thoughts which will  share suggestions of what to do with our journaled thoughts. Today, I believe it's more important to address the rise of concern and helplessness that's spreading throughout the world and hope to  ease and diffuse…

Trust Your Gut – How Our Intuition Is a Powerful Tool

Has there been a time when you’re making a decision on an issue you have little knowledge or experience with? Perhaps a new job, a new position, continuing education, health concern, family debate? Life is a series of new challenges and new opportunities and when encountered by the unknown, it’s easy to feel uncomfortable, insecure…

Spring Cleaning – It’s Not Just Good for the House!

  Springtime is here. It’s a time where we see signs of growth and fresh beginnings after a restful, dormant winter. It’s a season full of hope and possibility and opportunity. There’s an age-old tradition to do spring cleaning for the house before the hustle and bustle of summertime growth comes around and we become…

When All the Little Things Add Up to be Too Much of Not Enough

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." ~ Buddha Our days are made up of so many little things. Family things, work things, friend things, house things, community things and self-care things. I do my best to pay attention to these little things because they are a vital part…

The Benefits and Power of Seeking “Soul Food”

Soul food. Do you know what it tastes like? Do you like it? I’m not talking about the ethnic cuisine of the rural south, which is some of the tastiest comfort food ever created, or the cultural movement of “soul food” in the 60s that nourished the spirit and united millions of African Americans. I’m…