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Liberate Awareness from Ownership
With the horrific weather anomalies and natural disasters currently happening across the globe, it moved my attention towards all the challenges these Souls are being forced to accept in working with...
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How to Set your Holiday Table for Joy Rather than with Shame and Guilt
“The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” ~ Pema Chodron Fall is here! And with Fall...
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How to Draw Boundaries for Empaths
Do you put everyone’s needs and feelings before your own? So much so, that you find it nearly impossible to draw comfortable boundaries in your relationships or are you afraid that if you do say no or...
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Do You Believe in Second Chances?
Have you ever had something come back around like a romantic relationship, friendship, job, or career path that you thought was over? Or perhaps you’ve gotten a second chance with a different situation...
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Trying to Quit Smoking–or Trying to Help Someone Else? Create Your...
As I know from studying habits for my book Better Than Before, one habit that people really want to change — in themselves or others — is the habit of smoking. But quitting is tough. If you’re...
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What Do Thoughts Have to Do With It?
I recently celebrated my 10th anniversary. So far it’s been a heck of a ride – in a good way most of the time, but just as in most marriages, there are challenges. My husband, Wes, is super cool and...
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Dissent Can Make Us Fat Girls Stronger
As a fat woman, I know all about naysayers. I only have to walk around in my large, roll-covered body to get the message loud and clear that my body size is not okay. From the sideways looks from...
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How to Give Your Child a Rich Life–Without Raising Entitled Kids
“Our offspring have simply leveraged our good intentions and over-investment…They inhabit a broad savannah of entitlement that we’ve watered, landscaped, and hired gardeners to maintain.” -Sally Koslow...
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How to Successfully Quit Your Job and Pursue Your Dream
Do you remember when you grew up and you wanted to become a firefighter, musician or maybe a professional athlete? A passion you wanted to pursue because you loved doing it. However, once you grew...
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An Invitation to Live Life as You Were Meant To
Can you feel life’s invitation? What does it take to live fully as who you really are? To live life as you dream of it? Does that sound out-of-reach? Impossible, even? We grow up with such a rationed...
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What Helps Me Cope with Difficult Emotions
“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. “One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy,...
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Becoming The Master Of Your Own Fate
His platoon was counting on him. He couldn’t come back a failure. Brandon Webb was deployed to the Middle East four times. He was a SEAL and then he became a special operations sniper. “We were new...
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Did You Get Interrupted on the Way To “Ideal”?
Photo titled: “Kid interrupting poignant selfie” August 2017 My life has next to zero resemblance of what I thought it would look like when I started to act like an adult (I just snorted when I typed...
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5 Unorthodox Productivity Tips to Get More Done
It doesn’t matter what you do for a living in or where you work – everyone is looking for productivity tips to get more done. Everyone is looking for ways to get their jobs done faster, easier, with...
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What I Want You to Know About Hitting Rock Bottom
Today is my last day of being bankrupt. It’s ground zero. The beginning. I learned a lot during these last nine months in bankruptcy (and in the years that led up to this happening), yet one lesson...
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It’s Not the Answer
“He will always be a part of my story,” I said as we stared out over the city from our mountaintop perch. “He brought my entire world to a halt and completely altered the course of my life. And while I...
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Why Stuff Doesn’t Bring Happiness
The Pattern of Wanting More If your goal is to have more happiness in your life, you must look at the role of desire and attachment. Are you gripped by the idea of getting a bigger house, higher...
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How to Stop Obsessing
Obsessing over something is the worst. When someone or something has pitched a tent and set up camp in your mind, it can be your own personal version of torture. What we can we do to stop the seemingly...
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A Visit to the Hospital Reminds Me of How Happy I Am to Be Healthy.
Ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree: gratitude is a key ingredient to a happy life. Research shows that people who cultivate gratitude get a boost in happiness and optimism, feel...
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3 Vital Ingredients to Living a Luminous Life
In a culture that is steeped in “no pain no gain” – “fake it till you make it” – “effort before play” – “productivity over pleasure” – and “worldly success is the source of our happiness and worth”…,...
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