How resilient are you?
Resilience is a word we hear often but what does it really mean? According to the American Psychological Association resilience is “[…] the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means […]
Parenting and Clearing Life’s Hurdles
Clearing life’s hurdles while parenting is not easy. Graduations are not hurdles, they are a time for celebration, and they usually make me emotional. Have you ever experienced this? It comes from that sense that a part of my parenting “job” has been completed. Another life stage is emerging for this being I brought into […]
Staying Healthy and Balanced
Now is the time to keep your Immune System functioning as it should! With Covid-19 closing schools, quarantining entire towns and instigating a mad dash to clear the shelves of non-perishable foods at the supermarkets it is time to take a step back and think about how might this affect me personally? When we keep our immune […]
Thirty years and still going strong!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR My husband and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary over the holidays. Yes I was young when we married. We even dated for 6 years before we married so I guess you could say that “Dan was the Man” for me. This sort of relationship is not so common with […]
The Times They are a Changin`… Bob Dylan
Life stage changes seem to loom in front of us, whether they be a two digit birthday with a ZERO at the end, a marriage, starting a family, parental passing, menopause, becoming an empty-nester. There is excitment at most of the earlier stages in life. The latter stages can cause anxiety and much inward reflection. […]
A week of COURAGE
THIS IS MY WEEK OF COURAGE! A friend sent me this and I love it. I have it open on my computer and I read every morning before I start my day and every evening when I shut down the office. COURAGE is a LION, no fear just a focus on what you are aiming […]
FOUR Aspects of LIVING a New Year
A calendar new year has just begun. We spend time and energy deciding how to celebrate and who to celebrate with and hopefully we have fun or find joy in whichever way we celebrate. As well we often set resolutions for the year with gusto but often we have not really taken the time to […]
Taking Advantage of the Winter Months!
As the sun sets on 2014 we look back on the year and forward to the new one. Besides the usual revelry, gatherings with family and friends, traveling and the making of resolutions to do things differently next year, this is the time of year for some rest and recuperation. In nature, these colder, darker […]
Daily Affirmations
For those of you that know, I am a certified Louise Hay Practitioner. Louise started “You can HEAL your LIFE” and so much more. She is world renown and I would say the GURU of Self Affirmation and linking emotions to illness. Affirmations help us overcome fears, change thinking habits and change the beliefs we have […]
BE CURIOUS
One of the 3 principles of a Sophrology practice is to explore things with curiosity and wonder. Some exercises have us focus the curiosity on our body, experiencing our body for the first time. Other exercises have us explore and experience gravity for the first time, or our emotions. The practice of curiosity, when we […]