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What Makes You Real Happy?
What really makes you real happy? It’s a question that I think most of us ponder at some point. I’m sure that our idea of happy changes over time. I know when I was a busy working mom that just getting...
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I Don’t Have a God Shaped Hole
I’m edging back to writing my book – looking at the outline I crafted and reading everything I can (probably totally as a distraction) that would help me write a better book and that had me recently...
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Who Are Your Heroes?
When I was a kid I didn’t worship superheroes or cartoon characters. I idolized Leonardo da Vinci. I read everything I could get my hands on about him. Yes. I was a weirdo. I’ve had exactly five-ish...
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Judging and Jealous AF – Finding the Fix
There are two things I’d like to rip from my personality if it were only possible: judging and jealousy. They are ugly and they make my life oh so small. I know how to stop them in their tracks, but it...
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An Open Letter to All the Ladies
Dear Ladies, Each of you has inspired me and I think we have done something wrong that we aren’t championing each other better. I know I haven’t been very good at it and I want to rectify this. Now....
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Silence is Golden Four Ways To More Calm
Silence OMG. Y’all talk SO much. I do, too. The rush of words is exhausting and the words are so lazy. THAT is how I felt when I got home from my 5 day silent retreat this week. Silence. How does...
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The Beginner Lifestyle
What does it look like to be a beginner? Clumsy? Failing. Falling? All those things. Think about when you either learned to ride a bike or when you taught a child to ride a bike – weren’t you/they a...
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Stop Talking and Start Doing
I cringe a little inside every time I hear myself talk about a project instead of just doing it. It’s like I’m releasing some of the pressure in my creative engine and it isn’t moving me or the idea...
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Kindfulness: A Mashup Super Power
I’m on a mission to live my values out loud and I’ve finally come upon a word that expresses who I am and how I want to live: kindfulness. A mashup of being kind and mindfulness. It isn’t enough to sit...
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Let’s Have Coffee
My friend Marisa has this great sometimes blog series where she talks about what you would talk about if you were having coffee. I’m stealing it. Let’s have coffee. We would totally be talking about...
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2016 is the Worst and How to Cope
First there was Prince. Then Mohammad Ali. Then David Bowie. Then Leonard Cohen. Then, today, Gwen Ifill. John Oliver is right. 2016 is the worst. Here’s how I’m coping: Meditation. You have read...
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Wake Up
My call is to wake up. That is the reason that I’ve been meditating for over 25 years. To wake up and see the world just as it is. Not to fear the world. Not to make it worse than it is by projecting...
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#WomanCrushWednesday
It’s Woman Crush Wednesday! Here is a high five to 5 women who are CRUSHING it this week! Here’s mine. Put YOUR crush in the comments! Shout out to Eileen Bowles Jennings’s daughter Scout who...
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Five 10 Minute Writing Exercises in a Time of Crisis
I’ve been doing writing practice, morning pages, or writing in a journal for 25 years. I thought, given everyones overall feelings post election 2016 I would share five 10 minute writing exercises...
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Holidays Here I Come – Suck it 2016
Holidays here I come! I need to ring this year out the right way – with joy and love and all the light that shines this time of year! Honestly the end of 2016 has been a hot mess and I could just burn...
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Cheerfulness – Combating the Bad Vibes
Dude, what happened to cheerfulness? Is there something in the water? Have we been infected with a virus? What is going on that people are so darn mad? If they aren’t mad they are just complaining. If...
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To Listen – The Greatest Gift of All
To listen – Perhaps the greatest gift we can give. Starting with a little quite might help. I know that many of you either have children still at home or grandchildren, but even with kiddos there is...
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Together – We are all in this Together
We are in this together. All of it. Wow. That’s a little frightening isn’t it. There is just one planet (until some of you go muck it up on Mars) filled with all the people, the water, the air, the...
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Renew – Renew Our Hearts on the Daily
I feel, more than ever, that we need to renew our spirit, our humanity, our vision of the future and our faith in ourselves and each other. We seem broken. It isn’t just the election in the US or...
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Believe – Born with Santa Spirit
I believe in Santa. Not the Santa of the Coca-Cola commercials, mall or any of the ones forced to have kids sit on their laps. Those are all fine, but my belief comes from an early start and he...
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