What’s So Great About Happiness Anyway?
Happiness, yuck. That word that makes some people cringe. Some are repelled these days by the word happiness and all it connotes. People have strong opinions about happiness. Some are so turned off by the word happiness that this post probably won’t get many views....
read moreIt Gets Easier To Lie To Yourself As You Get Older
An acquaintance in her early 50s once said to me, “It gets easier to lie to yourself as you get older.” Both she and her husband had affairs. They decided to ignore their infidelities, forgive, and stay together for their three children. I didn’t say anything when she...
read moreWhen You Want Your Dad to Be There
It was a hard phone call to make. I had told my mother, a close friend or two, but it was in telling my father that my ten-year marriage was unraveling, and fast, I found the most…discomfort. I’m a grown woman with a child for Christ’s sake, and I was putting off...
read moreWriters Are the Most Present People I Know – We Have to Be
What I love about deep writing is it requires you to be still. It requires you to cultivate stillness in your life, so you have access to your stories, even the ones you’ve forgotten long ago. We all have stories to tell, and they are there, within us, stored in our...
read moreWhat Is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
I know what thoracic outlet syndrome is for me: A tight neck and jaw, tingling in my arms, numbness in my fingers, headaches, ringing in my right ear, reduced range of motion in my neck, pain in my shoulders and the inability to do some exercises in my Bar Method...
read moreTips, Tricks, and Hacks: Creating a Habit
I’ve been successful at creating some habits in my life that were easy to establish and have remained constant, while failing at creating others that just won’t stick. Namely, writing habitually. Writing is not always easy. Some days, it pours out of me. Other days,...
read moreHow My Lawyer and My Husband Taught Me The Gift of Non-reaction
I’m standing in my lawyer’s office, getting ready to leave when my iPhone starts blowing up with text messages. ping, ping, ping. pinG piNG pING PING. I start to shake. This is my new normal — an instant adrenaline rush flooding my body, followed by involuntary...
read moreThe Man Who Taught Me to Let Go
I met him through a mutual friend. I hadn’t slept with another man in 15 years. Maybe it was 16. I can’t remember precisely the last time I slept with someone other than my husband because I had been married for so long, I lost count. It had been a long time since I...
read moreThe Gift of a Daily To-do List
Occasionally, I wake up anxious — not a great way to start the day. My anxiety of late is affecting my productivity and is the reason I haven’t been very productive the last, uh, few years. Gulp. I believe the number one productivity killer is lack of...
read moreA Clutter Filled Life Can Affect Your Bottom Line
Financial freedom looks different to everybody. For some, it simply means not living paycheck-to-paycheck. For others, it means early retirement or being debt-free. It can mean being able to quit your 9–5 job to start building your own business or having passive...
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