Category: Emotional Well-being
Rolfing Rhymes with Golfing!
In 1980, I sat in Dr. Groves’s kinesiology class at Central Connecticut State University, studying the science of human movement with all the jocks. W [...]
Energy Evolution
I have witnessed so much shift and change since I moved to the US in 1994, and I count myself lucky and blessed to be part of the global growth and mo [...]
Is Your Vision Board Working for You?
Shortly after the documentary film The Secret, based in part on principles developed by Esther Hicks, came out in 2006, a mass of people were suddenly [...]
Reveal Your Past & Heal Using the Akashic Records
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed many more references to the Akashic Field, Akashic Records, The Book of Life, and more. I am now seeing the term [...]
How Can You Transform Your Relationships?
We are social beings. Relationships to ourselves and to others are
essential for our very survival. This last year of isolation during the pandemic, i [...]
Shaken to the Core
On January 6, 2021, I was settling down to write this column. It was my typical Wednesday off. I rest my hands, take time for myself and get life done [...]
Why Do Women Find It Hard to Ask for Help?
I was recently asked this question, “Why do women find it hard to ask for help?” I want to qualify my answer by sharing that finding it hard to ask fo [...]
A Lifetime Saga of Mastering My Weight
I was a chunky kid who was not very athletic and not very coordinated. People said I had a cute face, you know what that means! On my dad’s side, we h [...]
A Pivotal Life Changing Decision
How does one thrive in life, business and relationships? I want to share with you my personal experience of how I was able to thrive in life. This is [...]
What Weighs Us Down Can Lighten Us Up
At the turn of the new year, a lot of media attention is
directed at replacing habits that drag us down or getting rid of unwanted pounds. Why is it t [...]
The Power of Forgiveness and Gratitude
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
~ Dr. Martin [...]
2020 Hindsight as Foresight
I can’t remember how far back our family adopted the old British tradition of opening Christmas crackers when sitting down for our holiday meal. The f [...]
Listen to Your Wise Inner Voice
Were you ashamed of your parents? I wanted to ask my mom that question, but I couldn’t because that would be confessing that
I was ashamed of her. Fe [...]
There is No Dark, Only Less Light
Darkness grows as it heads toward the threshold of winter and 2020 continues to give us cause to wistfully look back to a time when life was a whole l [...]
Are You Touch Deprived?
Who isn’t stressed out to the max these days? With the ongoing pandemic, intense political climate, and civil unrest, we are all on edge more than eve [...]
Sh*t Happens: Paradox, Perspective and Healing
When a client, an artist, came to me suffering from PTSD after a terrible car accident, his life was shattered. To make matters worse, the experience [...]
Winning the Inner Battle
Do you ever feel like you are in a war against yourself to create the change that you desire? Do you want to lose weight but can’t resist the sweets? [...]
Online Therapy is Not the Wave of the Future, It is Now
You wear many hats. You have a career, you are a parent, you are a friend, a son/daughter, a leader, an organizer, a planner. You know how to show up [...]
How Telling Your Life Story Can Heal Your Pain
Have you ever told stories from your life to someone and that person said to you, “Wow, you should write a book?” Perhaps writing a book is not the ne [...]
What the Autumn Equinox Teaches Us About Love
Since the autumn equinox is the time of equal day and night, it’s easy to assume its connection to love is that it’s a 50/50 deal. You do your part, I [...]
The Perseverance Diet
In today’s world climate, it is easy to feel as if you are suffocating with the extraordinary demands of life. Yet we all find a way, don’t we? One w [...]
Qigong for Healthy Aging
Qigong is on people’s minds these days. It’s in the news and at your local Y or maybe at your yoga center. What is qigong? Whereas tai chi is a rout [...]
Healing Trauma & PTSD from COVID-19
Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress are not easy topics to talk about. They are backed by decades of stigmatization and misinformation. In the wake of th [...]
The Garden: We’re in It Together
Find a partner,” one of the facilitators said. “When you do, draw an invisible line between the two of you and each take a turn trying to get the othe [...]