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Fairytale Moments – Living a Mythic Life
Our lives can be mythic if we choose them to be. Or they can be ordinary. Every day invitations to experience or live out a fairytale moment come our way if we look. It is not about complex, grandiose Hollywood dreams coming true necessarily. Several years ago, I...
Setting the Levels: Tips for Creating a More Integrated Approach in Life
As I leaned into my fridge this morning for a handful of luscious California strawberries, I noticed some printing on the crisper drawers. "Humidity Settings" read the white type. Though I've been in my new place since June, this was the first time I noticed I could...
Get Grounded, Get Real: Guided Visualization As a Key to Becoming Centered
In our daily lives, outside of the wonderful grounding and meditative tools that are available (and do work), there are practical things you can do to get grounded. As a trained bodyworker, Reiki Master and hypnotherapist, I learned some easy, quick tools to help when...
Living Your Legacy: Insights and Inspiration for a Meaningful Life
You don't leave a legacy, you live it. When the last word of the story of your life is written it will be about who you were, how you loved and how you lived. You create your story every day...not on the last day of your life. A common introduction to the concept of...
The Grass is Never Greener
It is easy and human to look at someone else’s life from the outside at times and perhaps feel like they’ve got it all. The reality is there is no such thing as greener grass. We cannot know what challenges others may be facing behind the scenes. As most people go...
Starting Over
There are many times in my life where I have had to start again. It’s required in anything one attempts to master. In piano, it was Mrs. Grinberg teaching me the scales. First came proper posture. Feet dangling straight down from the bench, as they could not yet touch...
From Ordinary to Extraordinary
“Yes, but…” ~ two words that can be a dream killer, or at least a significant obstacle to turning your vision into reality. These two small words reside in the land of judgment, specifically in those moments when we judge ourselves to be less than who we believe we...
The Wrong Side of the Bed
As a child, my mother used to refer to those mornings when I woke up less than my cheery self as “wrong side of the bed” days. Many of us grew up with sayings like this. Stub your toe on the dresser and it was likely to be “one of those days.” Hair going every way...
The Power of Paying It Forward
It was as small, simple gesture. As the gentleman in front of me went to pay for his coffee this morning, he asked if, perhaps, they offered a military discount. The Barrista let him know that Starbucks doesn’t have programs like some other organizations offer for...
What do YOU believe?
Prior to my coach training, had I used the list of the ten beliefs highlighted in Amandah Blackwell's Huffington Post article, "Warning: These 10 Beliefs Keep You Stuck in Life," I would have seen that more than 50% of thoughts I held to be true were holding me back...