We Are Earthlings: New Year, New Focus
A Happy New Year! How have you been? How was 2023 for you? I have phases to my creativity, so I’ve been concentrating on doing my 333 Flower of Life Mandalas since last June. It’s been a while since I’ve written in this blog, but I’m back because at the...
A Month of Mays: May We Learn from Our Illnesses
When I started writing my last post about anger, I didn’t intend to chronicle my life with eczema. But for me, my anger and eczema are so intertwined that it felt natural to bring it up as a way to explain why embracing your anger is so important. The...
Make a List and Check It Twice
If you’re looking for love, make a list of all the qualities you want in a partner. Looking to move? Visualize the house you want to live in. Not satisfied with your job? Write down what your ideal job will be like. Be as detailed as possible. Suggestions like...
Energy Balance: Balancing Your Inputs With Outputs
As I was finishing up the last post about managing anxiety, my son’s school was engaging in yet another “shelter-in-place” followed by a student walkout. As soon as I found out, I was fighting the urge to go drive by his school just to be near him. I let...
When Being a Victim Creates More Victims
Tell me if you recognize this situation. Someone in your life does something that makes you feel hurt, so you tell that person how you feel. All you want is an apology, but what you get instead is an excuse, maybe even an accusation that it was really your...
Gratitude Journal
Since we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday here in the United States, I think it’s a perfect time to take a deeper look into keeping a gratitude journal. I hope you got a chance to get together with someone you care about yesterday, and that you got to appreciate what you...
Road to Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is a must in regaining control over your life from your survival instinct, or your ego. But it doesn’t come at a snap of a finger. I struggled with this for years! Deep down, I didn’t think I deserved self-acceptance. I would talk about the need for self-acceptance...
Don’t Underestimate Your Survival Instinct
***NOTE*** I believe our survival instinct and what people call “ego” are one and the same. I’m choosing to use the phrase “survival instinct” because people have such a negative connotation of the word “ego”. I didn’t want the repulsion of the word to influence your understanding of my...
Write Down Your Emotions
If you’ve never journaled before, the place to start is writing down every emotion you notice within yourself. Most of us have emotions that we’ve tucked away, too afraid to look at them. It might be because we feel guilty about harboring these emotions. We might believe we don’t...
Why Is It Important To Heal Your Soul?
Do you have a bad habit that you just can’t break? Have you gone on diets only to gain back everything and then some more? Do you have physical discomfort that won’t heal even though your doctor can’t find a reason for it? We’ve all spent a good majority...