Sing with me now– it’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, everywhere I go…. The holiday season is fully upon us– quite possibly the most anticipated and dreaded time of year. Yes, there is much to appreciate and be thankful for at this time of year. However, it also promises considerable stress and anxiety […]
It’s been awhile since I shared some new music with my readers/followers, and I’ve really been almost obsessed with these guys for a few weeks now. ThePianoGuys are a group of musicians from Utah who re-create popular musical pieces (some classical, some radio songs) and then record them “music video style” in awesome locations. The […]
A few weeks ago I was taking a road trip up to North Carolina for a weekend work retreat. Since I planned to make the entire 11 hour drive all in one day, I left my house pretty early in the morning. As is often the case in my neck of the woods, it was […]
I noticed it first a couple of weeks ago. The very tips of the leaves on some of the trees in our neighborhood were starting to change colors. Now it’s fairly evident, and some leaves are starting to gather on the lawn. The trees are still mostly green, but I know it’s coming and it […]
I was having coffee with a networking connection this morning. In the course of our conversation, we touched on the topic of personal life journeys. Specifically, we talked about how life has a way of never ending up where we think it will. So many of my friends and clients have said, “Wow, I thought […]
A few weeks ago I had coffee with a friend/colleague of mine who I hadn’t seen since late spring. We had planned for me to go to her house so she could share some of her extra landscaping plants with me for my garden. But the day before, she e-mailed to cancel because she’d just […]
Stress is part of our lives. Good stress, bad stress, we just can’t get away from it. Numerous research studies have shown that some amount of stress can be positive. We’ve all had the experience of having a job or school deadline that spurs us to action and motivates us to do better work. Or […]
“You can’t stop the waves from coming, but you can learn how to surf.”~Jon Kabat-Zinn Every couple of years my family takes a vacation to the Florida coast and spends a week on the beach. And one of my favorite things to do is to go out in the water just past where the waves […]
I had coffee with a friend the other day. We hadn’t seen each other in a few months, so we chatted about all sorts of topics. She’s a life coach and I’m a therapist, so inevitably we ended up discussing our common ground– what makes people tick. We’ve both had clients who are immobilized by […]
Last week I had a string of days where nothing seemed to go right. One day every traffic light was red, no one would return my phone calls, I forgot an appointment, it rained when my daughter and I planned to go swimming, the dentist’s bill was more than expected, I stubbed my toe on […]
