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Will You Be Courageous This Year?
I don’t know if you feel it, but I’ve been very aware of how things are shifting around us. People are starting to wake up, step up, and speak up. We are starting to come together and think in a...
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A Yearly Challenge: How to Deal with Post-Holiday Clutter? Here Are My Seven...
I love the holidays! It’s a fun, festive, family-and friend-filled time. It’s also a messy, overwhelming, clutter-creating time. Over the years, I’ve developed some strategies to help deal with...
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The Reason Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail and What You Should Do Instead
It’s nearing the end of January, and I have one question for you: how are those New Year’s resolutions going? You know – the ones that sounded like this: I’m going to lose weight. Eat healthy. Quit...
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The Evidence Says I Hate Myself: Renegotiating the Distance Between Who I Am...
The more I learn about self-esteem, the more I realize that it’s not about taking care of what I want, it’s about taking care of what I need. It’s less about treating myself and more about parenting...
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The Mess of My Experience
Sometime in the last couple of years, I started asking others to move aside when I was feeling something they couldn’t handle, rather than shutting it down so they could be more comfortable. Rather...
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It’s Not How Much Email You Get, It’s the Lack of Purpose in Your Life
If you misidentify a problem, your proposed solution probably won’t work. Let’s say you have a headache, so you decide to amputate your leg. You’ll probably still have the headache, and then you’ll be...
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3 Simple Words to Make Getting Your Needs Met Way More Likely
A few months ago in the throes of mothering, business, and partnership with a husband/business partner flying at half-mast due to illness (he’s doing way better now), I realized I was operating under...
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How to Become a Millionaire
I was a poor high school student with mediocre grades. I didn’t play any sports. I had few friends. I’d go home and read and watch TV all day and night. I love TV. I was a mediocre college student. But...
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The Guide to Being Outrageous Before, After and While Grieving
I have to tell you. I am getting too used to living outside the box. With the minority. From outside the mainstream. From the corner of the universe. As a matter of fact, it is kind of fun to say...
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How Our Business Gives Back
When I started my own business, I made a decision to be public about our charitable giving. It was a practice I learned from Anita Roddick and the Canadian-based leaders (all women) of The Body Shop....
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How to Achieve Your Missed 2018 Goals in 2019
January is coming to an end, and with the New Year comes a time to reflect on the goals you achieved in the previous twelve months – as well how to overcome failure of not achieving some goals in 2018...
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A Meditation for Relationship Changes & Challenges
The Challenge of Change Adjusting to your life after the end of a relationship, marriage/partnership is different for each person but it rarely all falls magically into place. There will be a period...
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Being an Artist Is the Most Important Job for Society!
This is not what one usually hears when choosing a life in show business. Most people get a negative reaction from their friends and family when they tell them that they are going into the arts. “They...
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How to Gently Shut down Passive-Aggressive Communication
Have you ever been in a situation with someone where they’re angry but they don’t use words, instead, they roll their eyes, stomp around, maybe slam a door? Or, you might be the one that’s acting out...
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Our Fierce Inner Critic
Do you know who the meanest person you’ll ever meet is? It’s your own inner critic and I came face-to-face with mine this week. Now why in the world would I say that a part of you is meaner than anyone...
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Watching TV with Your Sweetheart May Boost Your Happiness
I’m very interested in the role of TV-watching in our happiness. After all, after sleeping and work, it’s the biggest consumer of the world’s time. Research suggests that for couples who don’t have...
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How to Find Lasting Empowerment and Inspiration as a Woman In Business
I heard a really great story at a yoga retreat. It was told to us by my friend’s husband. He said: We come into life with a suitcase. And that suitcase is full. And we have all that we need inside...
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The Simple Power of Showing Up
“The majority of goals people pursue don’t require innate talent, or working a 12-hour a day — in most cases they lack old-fashion consistency.” –Zdravko Cvijetic The truth is, the process of success...
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The Questions You Should Ask When You’re Feeling Stressed and Don’t Know Why
The one thing I hear from people most is, “My anxiety has been so absorbing that I just want to go to sleep.” You wake up, get the kids off to school, go to work, come home, clean the house, make...
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How to Strengthen Intuition Using Only Your Breath
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate and...
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