Play Podcast (Originally Posted: 11/30/10; Revised: 11/28/13) As we enter the Holiday Season, I notice people’s mindsets tend to line up along a continuum: one extreme experiences the joy of the season, while the other wants it to be over as quickly as possible. We all have the potential to delight in the joy of…
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Your Ticket Out of “Crappy-Land” – Get Through a Bad Day
“What we resist, persists.” — Carl Jung Circumstances, real or imagined, can send us on a downward spiral. We can fight it, trying all the usual aphorisms: “look at the bright side”… “remember all the good” in an effort to play “keep away”, but sometimes we can’t seem to avoid that sign post up ahead:…
The Success Zone
“Success” is a mysterious land for many of us. For some it’s like Shangri-La; a mystical place where everything is beautiful and always just out of reach. For others, “Success” is a “Twilight Zone”, even more frightening than failure, because it is pregnant with possibilities and potentially dashed expectations. In either case, our vision of…
Saying “Yes” when you mean “No”? Reclaim Your Sun
Why do we say “yes” when we mean “no”? When we say that what someone wants is more important than what we want; we give them our power. (Note for Parents: Our children are very important and… they learn self-valuing by watching us. Striking a balance here is vital which is a topic for a…
Birthing Your Independence: Mercury Retro in Cancer
Play Podcast Taking ownership for our own happiness now allows us to create meaningful lives today.”― Christine Faucher-Kelley On our country’s upcoming “birthday”, we continue to ride out this emotional Mercury Retrograde in Cancer (6/26/13-7/19/13). As I mentioned in my last post, in addition to the usual Mercury Retrograde cautions to be mindful, this cycle…
Gratitude in the Void – Moon Void of Course in Taurus
The Moon will be Void of Course (or VOC) in Taurus from Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 9:24 am EDT to Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 11:31 pm EDT when it will shift to Gemini. All the usual Moon Void of Course mindfulness applies… The Law of Attraction states that what we focus upon we…
Healing Your Relationship With Yourself
[buzzsprout episode=”43156″ player=”true”] Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that my top two most popular pod casts were released three days apart: “Procrastination” and “If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?” I believe that both concepts reflect a society-wide betrayal of “self”. You would think that we would honor our relationships to ourselves first. I’m…
Love is a Verb
http://www.buzzsprout.com/3089/41299-love-is-a-verb.js?player=small Many people have mixed feelings about Valentine’s Day, so here’s an empowering thought to celebrate. A couple years ago I read in Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, where a man complained to Mr. Covey that he didn’t feel the way he used to about his wife. Mr. Covey replied,…
The Holiday Gift of “Choice”
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor Frankl from Man’s Search for Meaning [buzzsprout episode=”37889″ player=”true”] In the above quote, Viktor Frankl refers to his personal experiences…
The Gratitude Biscotti
[buzzsprout episode=”29667″ player=”true”] It all started last night… My mentor insisted that I watch “The Secret”. This time I actually did as she suggested. 😉 If you haven’t seen this film, or read the book by Rhonda Byrne, you really need to. This book/film will change your life if you choose to let it. Many…
Luminance 