Category: Inspire
What if you only had one year to live?
What would you do? What places would you visit? Who would you spend your time with?
How many of you have contemplated this question? I mean seriou [...]
Self-confidence is SEXY!
Too many people think that being self-confident means you are cocky and disrespectful. Don’t get me wrong – there are people like that – but I wouldn’ [...]
Being a Mindful Man in a Crazy World
Every day in my practice I speak to patients about the significant role that stress plays in our lives. We discuss the tendency toward an overactive [...]
All Your Questions about Spirituality, Energy and Health Answered!
I am grateful for the opportunity to help people experience the world I feel we are moving through and stepping into. This column is question and answ [...]
Skip Being the Good Mom and Get Naughty
I spent years trying to be the Good Mom. One year I grew Roma tomatoes in clay pots that I hand painted with the kids handprints. I blanched, peeled [...]
The Power of Meditation and Mindfulness for Stressed Out Mom’s
Motherhood. Wow! Children add a new dimension to our lives. Our lives are full. We have unending to do lists. We multitask well. Adding meditation pr [...]
Trouble Getting Pregnant Again? Using Mind-Body Techniques for Secondary Infertility
Couples look forward to growing their families and can be in for a shock when baby No. 2 is not so easy to conceive, especially when they had no troub [...]
How I Lost My Passion in Life and Love + Exactly How I Got It Back
Have you ever woken up one day, looked around at your life and thought,
“This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife! MY GOD!...WH [...]
Should You Cheat to Bring Back Excitement in Your Relationship?
I was listening to this amazing TED talk by Esther Perel – just her accent is enough to keep you interested in what she has to say – about her researc [...]
Are You in the Maze?
Reading a fascinating book today, “The Tools,” by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels. Have you ever noticed that there is a pattern that repeats itself in y [...]
What Is Fear Keeping You From?
My mother always used to say things to me like, “play it safe”, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, “that’s too risky” and a million other [...]
What Do You Believe?
“If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it” – Napoleon Hill
Belief is a powerful thing that can work for you or against you. You c [...]
Making Moments Count: How to Recognize and Claim Your Life Purpose
After I graduated from medical school, I began my training to become a physician. I had always wanted to help others, and I believed this was the way [...]
Just Cross the Room
"Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked."
- Pete [...]
Can You Create Your Reality From a Simple Thought?
If I asked most people, what is the most important thing they wanted to change about themselves in order to create an ideal life, I would hear the fol [...]
Mindful Eating Meets Mindful Self-Compassion
Another new year dawns and with it comes the barrage of weight loss plans, some balanced, others not and most promising a ‘quick fix”. The diet indust [...]
How to Break the Failed Relationship Cycle
Another relationship down the drain. More time spent hurting, wondering why it didn’t work out, and dreading having to “go back out there” again. Why [...]
Still Single? Don’t Be the Elf on the Shelf!
Do you have children? If you do, then you know about the elf on the shelf. This charming new tradition has momma move the elf around every night while [...]
Healthy Holiday Eating, Sticking To Your Goals
Most people overestimate the amount of weight gained during the holidays. According to The New York Times, the average weight gain for a U.S. adult be [...]
Why Music Therapy Makes Sense
When even our own vocal chords and bodies can become instruments, music is an almost universal experience to man that communicates and touches a deepe [...]
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
It’s that time of year when many of us start making our list of who’s been naughty and nice. Then we wrack our brains as to what to get them for the h [...]
Is It Possible to Find the Joy Again?
Reading or hearing about the side effects of prescription medication for depression is enough to make anyone depressed and anxious! And then [...]
I Want You to Tell Me No
I am going to teach you how to LOVE rejection. By the time I am done with you, you will CRAVE it and seek it out. Yes, I know you think I’m crazy, but [...]