Jan 30, 2014 | Intuition, Purpose, Uncategorized
After a lot of thought, I’ve made a big decision: I’m turning off the comments on my blog (actually, the Universe already did)…and I hope you understand. When I first started blogging in 2006, there was no such thing as social media. (Hard to...
Jan 24, 2014 | Healing, Purpose, Uncategorized
Apparently, I’ve had so much going on inside, that I forgot to report back to the outside. I stopped by my own blog this morning and was shocked to see I haven’t posted here in weeks. When I’m trudging through giant change in my life, I often...
Jan 6, 2014 | Healing, Purpose, Uncategorized
Feeling a little blue today? Join the club. Today has already been declared the most depressing day of the year. In fact, it has a name: Blue Monday. Over the years, researchers have found that the first Monday after New Year’s Day is the roughest on our...
Nov 11, 2013 | Inspiration, Purpose
Last week, my friend Lori Portka got mugged – social media mugged. The online trolls didn’t steal her money, but they tried to take away her confidence in it, her love of it, her respect for it. She had shared one of her paintings on Facebook – the...
Sep 13, 2013 | Inspiration, Purpose
Want to know the hardest thing about deciding to let the real you shine through? Not everyone is prepared to handle your light. Think of a time when you were in a dark room – maybe resting, maybe meditating, maybe just tiptoeing your way through – and someone flipped...
Aug 28, 2013 | Parenting, Purpose
While I was leading a recent workshop about the importance of finding and sharing your inner sparks – the passions, talents or interests that light you up from the inside out – a woman (we’ll call her Linda) approached me during our lunch break, eyes...
Aug 20, 2013 | Parenting, Purpose, Uncategorized
Okay, okay. So my 10 year old may not be a business expert quite yet. In fact, he’s only run a business for one day this year, hosting his own lemonade stand last week. But he did it so well ($33 in two and a half hours) and learned so much in the process, I...
Aug 14, 2013 | Inspiration, Purpose
I hope I’m making the right decision here: I’m about to end something that’s been such a blessing in my life. Gulp. You know those butterflies you get when you’re about to do something that feels scary but so right? Yeah, got those right now....