YES DEAR, YOUR JOURNEY MATTERS TO US ALL

We think we’re separate beings.  And in part, we are.  We each have a body, that’s true.  And those seem to be quite different ones, unique to ourselves with boundaries of skin protecting our bones, muscles, etc., etc.  So to look at us, we’re distinct and detached....

How do you reduce anxiety and find the joy in your life?

Life is sure full of stressors.  From the big to the little and everything in between. Seems no matter what your life’s about, stuff comes calling. And of course, anxiety is so pervasive, we have a test for how stressful our lives are.  The Holmes-Rahe life stress...

Sometimes I want to Lock the Gate and Turn off the Phone

Sometimes I want to Lock the Gate and Turn off the Phone You know how that is?  We think that means running madly from reality.  And in essence, it is.  But the reasons for doing so are sometimes different from what conventional wisdom might say. Often when I’m...

13 MOOD BOOSTERS FOR A HAPPY MOOD

Not happy?  Life got ya down?  Too many troubles and not enough dancing?  Horrors!  Let’s fix it. We all have ways to lighten our mental loads, our own mood boosters and ways to be happy that work for us.  Or maybe in combination. So let’s play.      Literally. Play....

5 Books that you should read right now

Don’t’cha just love when someone tells you to do something?  My first reaction is always to go the other way! But I’m writing this for a reason.  LOL. I have people ask me, literally every day, for something good to read.  Every single day.  Because they can’t find...

YOU CAN FIND HAPPINESS WITHIN

Because that’s where it lives, no?  We all know that it isn’t what happens to you that matters, but how you react to it.  We know that, right?  At least in our heads . . . It’s getting to where we live that’s the tough part.  I can know something, believe it, ascribe...