The Awareness Link: 7 Focus Areas that Create Success
Whether you like it or not, your business is about YOU. Your success is about your awareness. And once you understand that nothing is separate from you – then you master success. This is not about striving for perpetual meditative bliss. This is about living […]
How to Interrupt Your Old Food Patterns
Today’s post was written by guest blogger, Sue Ludwig. Sue is the President and Founder of the National Association of Neonatal Therapists. She is also a consultant to neonatal intensive care units around the country, a national speaker, and a published poet. She lives in […]
Defining Downtime: 6 Ways to Ramp Up your Rejuvenation
No matter how much you love your work or how much you hate it, you gotta admit that everyone needs time off. In fact, most of the women who come to my retreats say that they simply need rest. It’s remarkable to observe that their […]
On Getting Over Poison Ivy [or, Mind Over Plant Matter]
You’re either in the Poison Ivy Club or you’re not. You either get it, or you don’t. My husband has never gotten poison ivy. (How is this possible?) I, on the other hand, have had it anywhere you can see skin on my body. (And […]
Making Friends with Songs and Food
I teach songwriting weird. I don’t focus on how to craft a killer chorus. I don’t tell students they can write a hit song in a week. I don’t force them to write clever lyrics. Those things can be found in every book out there. […]
18 Ways to Live Simple Now
What does it mean to Live Simple? It doesn’t mean that you foresake all of your belongings and head to the woods to live deliberately. (Though you could do worse!) It doesn’t mean that you adopt a self-righteous attitude about money (which is often a […]
Do You Create Your Pet’s Behavior?
Ever since the Fire Department pulled Gracie down from the tree behind our house as a timid little kitten, she has been determined to squeeze every ounce of life out of life. It’s not that she’s feral. It’s that she’s fierce. She’s passionate. Everything is […]
Subliminal Botox
Judy was at my December Great Big Dreams Retreat. She’s 67. I’d like to report that when she mentioned her age to the circle of women, there was a collective gasp in the air. But really, it was more like a collective “Huh?” Judy could […]
The Functionally-Challenged Family Holiday Presence Guide
So far, we’ve discussed how to take care of yourself during the holiday season, and how to prepare for a potentially charged holiday event involving travel, family and holiday pressure. Now, we arrive at the scene. It’s time to ditch the idea of Christmas presents […]
The Functionally-Challenged Family Holiday Preparation Guide
(Click here to read the first post in this little series.) So, you go to the movies, right? And in the middle of the feature you decide you don’t like what’s happening in the movie. So you charge to the front of the theater and […]