Take the Time to Savor
Our brains generally filter out the good all around us. They are busy looking for the danger to protect us or looking for what’s broken so we can fix it. We can retrain our minds to look [...]
Who's in Control? You or Your Thoughts?
Have you ever tried to sit quietly and not think of anything? It is really hard! We are never alone – our thoughts are always with us . . . The average person has 30,000 thoughts a day!! So [...]
Appreciating Our Mortality
As I was reading the book, The Untethered Soul, by Michael Singer, it hit me that many of us don’t fear death — instead, we fear life. We hardly ever seriously think about death as it [...]
Permission to Be Human
My teacher, Tal Ben-Shahar, has a saying that I love; Give yourself and others permission to be human. None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes so we shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves [...]
Be a Weed…
The other day I was driving down the highway admiring the pretty blue Chicory and Queen Anne’s Lace growing in the ditches when I started thinking about the characteristics that make these [...]