It’s that time of year again! There is candy everywhere…in bowls in doctors’ offices, on huge displays in stores, on my kitchen counter staring at me as it sits patiently waiting for trick-or-treaters. It’s the perfect time for excuses. Many people will use Halloween as a reason to “be bad.” Next thing you know, it’s [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I solicited those that follow me on Facebook, for some input on what they would like to read about. A friend suggested writing something on the illusion of control. When I read those words, “illusion of control,” I immediately thought, YES! My next thought was, hmmm, what the heck does [...]

Today, September 11, 2013, marks the 19th anniversary of my big sister Cecily’s passing. She has now been gone for as long as she was here on this earth. Each year, as this day approaches, I think I’m fine, and that maybe this year it won’t be as painful, but somehow the sadness seems to [...]

One day during my training, we were practicing coaching one another.  I was being coached by another student, and I don’t remember what my issue was at the time, but my teacher asked me why I thought I was able to be so open and allow myself to be so vulnerable in front of the [...]

You’ve got no one to blame but yourself! When it comes to your feelings, this is ALWAYS true. My guess is a lot of you are shaking your heads thinking I’ve gone mad, but it is true. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can choose to go through life a much happier human [...]

I take vitamins. I’m not a crazy, over-the-top, vitamin taker, but in addition to trying to have a balanced diet, I try and make sure my body gets what it needs to be as healthy as I can be. Anyway, the reason I am sharing this information is not because I’m going to try and [...]

Feelings are called feelings because they are for feeling.  They are meant to be felt. The good feelings we have are easy because we enjoy them, the icky ones…not so much. From very early on in a lot of people’s lives, many are taught not to feel.  As a child you may have been told [...]

It is what it is. Most of us have said this at one time or another. Have you ever stopped and taken a moment to really think about what that means? I don’t think I really had until I started writing today. It IS what it IS. That is the reality of everything in our [...]

Have you ever had something on your to do list that you kept putting off because whenever you thought about it, you got cranky? Then, when you actually got it done, you thought about how it was no big deal, and wondered why the heck it took you so long to just do it? It’s [...]