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Facing the First Anniversary of My Friend’s Death
A year ago a close friend of mine found out she was dying. A year on I have started to prepare for the anniversary of her death. Because grief anniversaries matter to me, a lot. Why? What are grief...
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Just Try It
I had time over the weekend to pull the garden apart and prep it for a new spring’s planting of herbs and flowers. I had such a nice time by myself out there in the dirt, but I was a little bit worried...
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Pandering Never Builds a Legacy
I’m as guilty as anyone else who says that to build a business, or a blog, it’s good to ask people what they want and then give it to them. It works! But there’s another side to this thinking, and I...
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Why Your Life Partner Is NOT Your Soul Mate
In most of the articles you read out there the terms are used interchangeably. Your life partner is your soul mate. You might as well call them life mates and soul partners. But are they really that...
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How to Add Value to Your Life
What are the most valuable things everyone should know? When I would stay up all night anxious and scared and afraid about money and love and life, I had no rules to live by. I expected too much. I was...
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The Most Powerful Possible Yes to Women
…to the women determined to restore the divine to where it has been pummeled out of memory, where denial is so calcified that our beauty is last to be seen in economics and science and law — laws that...
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Using the Law of Attraction for Joy, Relationships, Money & More
The Law of Attraction is the most powerful law in the universe. Just like gravity, it is always in effect, always in motion. It is working in your life at this very moment. You are always in a state of...
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An Open Letter to My Cerebral Palsy
This is a project I have wanted to do for quite some time now, but I was waiting on the right time to do it. I feel like today is the day, and I think it will be a great cathartic activity for me. So,...
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In Memory of the Students Who Perished in Parkland
A father wanted to entertain his little girl so he could have some time alone. He cut out a picture of the world from the newspaper and gave her the pieces to put together. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle,”...
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Does Winter Make You S.A.D.?
With it still technically being Winter, (even with daylight savings time this past weekend), do you find you suffer from ‘The Winter Blues’? As a psychotherapist, I have found that over the years I...
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I Was Not Myself for Two Weeks
After getting to the other side of about two weeks of sleep deprivation from jetlag, more cross-country travel, late nights / early mornings, getting off my routine, and WAY too much on my mind, I am...
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Like Jung and Wharton, Do You Remember When You First Knew Yourself?
In my writing about habits and happiness, I kept coming back to the same idea: to shape our habits, to build our happiness, we have to start with a knowledge of ourselves — our own nature, our own...
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Are You Open to the Idea of Creation?
If you’re following me on social media, you may have noticed I spent the last few weeks over in Oz. A few days in the glorious sand of Hamilton Island (top 10 places for sure) and then down in Sydney...
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“Is the Noise in My Head Bothering You?”
The monologue that runs in our brain is loud. It’s heavy-metal loud compared to the quiet signals we get from the rest of the world. All day, every day, that noise keeps going. It’s the only voice that...
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3 Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Immediately Know What Your Judgments Say...
This is part three of the three-part series about Judgment; how those judgments can tell you something about yourself and what you can learn from them. You can find part ONE here, and part TWO here....
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Really Be You
Space-time — commonly referred to as ‘reality’ — is perceived remarkably different by different observers. With all their different ‘velocities’…those unique perceptions produce opinions, conclusions,...
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Ride the Waves
“Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they’re happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you...
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My Writing Process, Revealed.
Then I read from at least four different styles of books. I have coffee. I think. I list. I write. Throw stuff out. Then finally it’s around 6am and I begin. Here’s the types of articles… PAIN: I think...
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8 Ways to Sustain Your Inner Connection No Matter What
Life can be so full of noise, can’t it? How can you possibly sustain a connection with your inner self in the face of all that? You know what I mean. The kids fighting over who gets the last cookie....
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Come On, Get App-Y. Team D’s Favourite Apps for Work & Play.
Team D rocks, our creativity and productivity flow has got to be A+ to back up our dreams. Here’s a roundup of our favourite apps for work and play. Danielle LaPorte, Author + Speaker Voice Memos:...
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