Let’s say you’ve been led to move your body daily, hoping to drop some weight in the process. After reading positive research about the benefits of walking you decide that along with ma…

(3 minute read) Your wizardry is your magic. And like your capacity: YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. To understand the essence of your wizardry you must first recognize that acknowledging your magic and movin…

I’m asking you to get over yourself, but unfortunately I can’t tell you exactly how to do it. Before you turn on me and get all up in arms in the belief that I’d endeavor to lead …

Friends with benefits According to Dictionary.com noun (used as a euphemism) a friend with whom  one has sex  without a romantic  re…

Did you ever feel and maybe even say out loud, OFTEN possibly? Maybe you even wailed it: “I CAN’T DO THIS!! IT’S NOT IN ME!! I have. Often. But the masters offered me a gem of ins…

“And I know a fatherWho had a sonHe longed to tell him all the reasonsFor the things he’d doneHe came a long wayJust to explainHe kissed his boy as he lay sleepingThen he turned around and he…

We live in a world that’s quicker to understand what we can afford in monetary terms rather than life-limiting terms. We easily recognize if we can’t afford a yacht or a beach vacation …

If you’re struggling with the concept of: “I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED” it may be due to our human tendency to compare what we have in relation to what this, that, or the next person…

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.”         …

Your real competitive edge isn’t how smart you are — it’s how quickly you can reinvent yourself when the rules change.

The first time I heard ‘Counting Stars’, written by One Republic guitarist Ryan Tedder, I heard the lyric: EVERYTHING THAT KILLS ME, MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE and I felt validated. …

Let’s say you’ve been led to move your body daily, hoping to drop some weight in the process. After reading positive research about the benefits of walking you decide that along with ma…

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

It’s not that I didn’t first realize how downright attractive being dirty can be while watching shows like Survivor or, one of my sister’s favorites: Naked and Afraid . But nothin…

If you’d have seen it lying in her drawer you wouldn’t have given it a second glance. It appeared just an old scrap of metal shaped into a flower sort of shape and now it was broken apa…

“I’m tired. Can I just be tired? Without piling on all sad and scared and out of time. I’m wild. Can I just be wild? Without feeling like I’m failing and I’m losing my…

we are merely players, performers and portrayers. Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage.” Limelight lyrics by Alan Parsons, Eric Norman Woolfson sung by Rush I’m an acto…

As a continued extension of my efforts to become comfortable with being uncomfortable, I’m taking a step back and making a renewed resolution to not censor myself in my writing. Or my anywher…

“Yeah, it was hard to give upSome things are hard to let goSome things are never enoughI guess I only can hope For maybe one more chanceTo try and save my soulBut loveIs a long, long roadYeah…

*It wouldn’t be Christmas to me without George Bailey. I wrote this piece some time ago and I read it often as a reminder to myself to hang in there when I’m feeling the way George did …

What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.

Say it with me: “I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED.” Think of these words as magic beans that once planted deep in your beliefs, will assist you in growing the beanstalk that will enable you to …

Lone wolf empaths, unlike regular empaths, prefer solitude to human company. Are you a sensitive and caring, yet prefer time alone?

After the base salad comes the fun part! Why is it fun? Because I’m going to encourage you to put whatever it takes on your salad to make it appealing to you. Without cautionary admonishment …

“Yeah, it was hard to give upSome things are hard to let goSome things are never enoughI guess I only can hope For maybe one more chanceTo try and save my soulBut loveIs a long, long roadYeah…

Why do we wait to be better at things before we put them out there? What do you have to offer that you’re keeping to yourself because you’re afraid it’s not “good enough&#82…

My no-fail method for dealing positively with getting older: get out of the mirror.  It’s so basic it sounds like a joke, but I’m completely serious. I’m average in the looks depa…

For an entirely too short period of time my childhood self was not burdened by the “have to-s” of life. You know: you have to do thisthatortheother and it has to look like thisthatorthe…

Get “ONE” under your belt. What do I mean by one?  “One” is each personal challenge you face. Throughout your day, challenges in varying degrees of difficulty…

Learn about spiritual alchemy: the secret science of illumination and inner liberation. Which of these seven stages are you experiencing?

How long do you suppose it takes us to decide that being a beginner sucks? I can’t speak for you, but as a young kid I don’t recall thinking twice about being a beginner and pondering i…

Many people believe their fitness challenges or body dissatisfaction have a specific cause. They’ll share it when we first meet, and then they’ll tell me what they believe their solutio…

I’ve noted that when I can’t even begin to get started on something it’s because I’ve already overwhelmed myself with simply the very idea of it. Deluged with thoughts of &#…

This easy to make muffin is not only delicious and allergen friendly (leave out the nuts if you’re nut-free) but healthy to boot! Grab that muffin pan and get baking. You know you want to! ;)

We each must seek our own answers.  When something resonates, we must dig deeper and investigate it further for ourselves rather than just taking someone else’s word for it. Respecting o…

You are significant in your simply BEING. If you were never able to “do” another thing, your significance would not cease to exist because it’s ALREADY there. Having awareness of our own sign…

“Desperately seeking people who are still thinking” Are you one of them? If you’re still reading this, the answer is most likely yes. I may not be a scientist, but I share in the …

Are you desperately seeking people who are still thinking?

A big thank you to Robert Glazer for this timely reminder! You can read his Friday Forward post HERE. May your Saturday include the flexibility of mind that affords one a new lens with which to vie…

I don’t like the idea of spending “eternity” in a place called “heaven” playing a harp. Yeah, I said it. I wouldn’t even want to spend all of eternity playing a …

Truly identifying the pain within another often requires taking yourself out of the equation and stepping back from the situation enough to see it and them without your eyes (logical mind). This re…