* Rewire Your Brain: 6 Things You Can Do To Stay In The Present * For almost three decades I was one of the least present people on the planet. A life-altering trauma turned the world both inside and outside my head into such a painful experience that...
Read More* How to Control Your Emotions * I’ve been told that I have a fairly broad and deep emotional range. That can be a good thing because it means I feel things with sensitivity, complexity, and intensity. I notice nuances in myself and others. Feelings, occurrences, people—they matter...
Read More* 3 Essentials of Happy and Healthy Relationships * These are things that, when done over time, create the kinds of relationships you truly desire. Your loving spouse who shares everything with you, that best friend who connects with you like few others do, the people at work who...
Read More10 Stories to Nurture your Most Important Relationships * During our last 10-day challenge, we explored the topic of nurturing our relationships. From self-love to romantic relationships and from family to community – it’s so very important to constantly expand the way we interact with and love...
Read More* 4 Daily Practices to Increase Your Mental Health * For more than 25 years I thought I was crazy. I would remind myself, “Some people are born to be crazy, and you’re one of them.” Only I hadn’t been born crazy; I’d survived a trauma at the...
Read More* A Match Made In Heaven? * The tall man with silver hair sits next to me at the dinner party and smiles. We have yet to speak a word, but I feel like I know him already. At least, a few salient details. “He’s a gem,” the hostess...
Read MoreBrain Food for Happiness * * Did you know that compassion, the act of recognizing someone else’s suffering with the inclination to want to support them, creates important activity shifts in the brain that are associated with resiliency and well-being? I recently attended a talk at a fundraiser where...
Read More5 Mindset Traps That Will Derail Your Success * For 12 years, I was a bread delivery driver, and I dreamed of more for my life. But I also listened to my doubt and fear, and I let them keep me from more—from success. Then I finally got...
Read More7 Ways to Be the Very Best Leader You Can Be * It takes a special kind of courage—to refuse to consider the possibility of failure. By Brian Tracy * The best leaders have a special kind of courage. They have the courage to endure, to persist, to “hang in there”...
Read MoreWhat to Do When You Don't Know What to Do (& the Secret to Shredded Abs) * Why are you alive? Can you answer that question? I can't. Not right now, anyway. I'm hoping maybe by this weekend. Next week at the latest. There are going to be times when...
Read More4 Steps to a Happy New Year – All Year Long * We all want to be happy. This basic human desire fuels our lives. We invest significant effort in its pursuit, striving for the perfect spouse, a rewarding career, a beautiful home, the appreciation and respect...
Read More3 Out-of-the-Box Resolutions for 2016 The turn of the calendar from one year to the next invariable leads toward a yearning to live our lives in new and more healthful ways. Losing weight may top the charts as a New Year’s resolution, but if you are...
Read More31 Perfect Things * As we see more and more holiday gift guides, articles espousing the perfectness of glitzy products, I’d like to offer an alternative perspective. We don’t need to buy things to make our lives beautiful or joyous. We don’t need more glamorous items in our...
Read MoreMuster Confidence and Responsibility * By John C. Maxwell * I get asked all the time what are some of the greatest things I have ever seen happen as a leader. So I compiled a list of a leader’s “greatest things.” I need to note this list is subjective...
Read MoreBy: Naomi Teeter 5 Tips if You Feel "Behind" in Life It happens around this time every year—I get that feeling of loss. Autumn is known as a time for reflection. For many of us, during this season, it becomes clear what we didn’t accomplish during the...
Read More* Aging: One Size Does Not Fit All * A new study suggests different measures for defining “old age.” Theresa is 65 years old. She has a plot in her community organic garden, hosts sleepovers for her granddaughter and has been known to dip into the world of Internet...
Read More* 7 Stories for Mastering Your Emotions * The emotional body is widely overlooked for overall health and happiness. Explore these 7 stories on how to understand, cope with and use your emotions appropriately. 8 Creative Techniques to Cope with Painful Emotions Many of us have a hard time...
Read More* 10 Affirmations for Staying Centered * Staying centered is key in life. When you’re centered, you can avoid getting easily led astray, becoming out of balance, and getting swept up in the whirlwind that is life. When we are not centered, it causes distress and unnecessary chaos in...
Read More13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do Oust the weak links in your thinking and behavior patterns. Amy Morin December 1, 2015 For more than a decade in my work as a psychotherapist, I helped clients identify their existing talents, skills and support systems. Then we’d figure out how...
Read More* Survival Lessons: Novelist Alice Hoffman's Memoir about Breast Cancer Who is Survival Lessons for? I wrote this book for survivors of trauma, but it’s also for the people who love them. So many of us are taught to deny illness and loss. When tragedy strikes, it’s a shock,...
Read MoreHow to Remain in Balance with your Emotions By: Bess O'Connor Blame it on the environment, your work, the stress, your partner, the kids, the overwhelm – yet the truth remains – your emotions are your own and for you to remain in balance with. Emotional turmoil directly...
Read MoreBy: Julie Peters Engage My What?! Decoding the Core The most important instruction you’ll get in a yoga class may also sound like the most ridiculous one: “Engage your peeing muscles.” “Engage your vaginal walls like you were holding onto a tampon.” “Lift a golden egg from...
Read MoreRalph Waldo Emerson wrote, “We become what we think about all day long.” If you’ve read anything authored by Stephen R. Covey or Jim Rohn, you know that what you focus on is what grows. Your attitude has great power in your life. But if you’re like...
Read MoreRewiring Grief: Creating Healing Thoughts So far in my life, I’ve been amazingly lucky: I haven’t experienced a major traumatic loss, like the death of a parent, close family member, or friend. Sure, I’ve had my share of losses: failed love affairs, important opportunities that got...
Read More4 Daily Practices to Increase Your Mental Health For more than 25 years I thought I was crazy. I would remind myself, “Some people are born to be crazy, and you’re one of them.” Only I hadn’t been born crazy; I’d survived a trauma at the...
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