Christmas will be here in less than a week and this year is winding down. So it is only natural that I take a little quiet time to review my year. Why? Because it’s a great gauge to see how […]
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Are You a #Fearless SHE?
This last week was a fun one in my “side business.” India Hicks launched her Holiday Collection 2016 and, while it is all pretty fabulous and I’d love to have one of everything, one little item struck a chord in […]
If These Walls Could Talk: An Open Letter to My Home of 22 Years
In my years as a counselor, I often used writing letters as a part of my clients’ therapeutic process. These were not letters where punctuation, spelling or proper use of “there, their and they’re” mattered. These letters written from pain, […]
The Healing Power of Packing…My Relationship With Boxes
21 years. That is how long I have lived in this house. That is how much “stuff” I have accumulated. I have never really taken stock of that “stuff” until it was time to move, to begin again, to start […]
A Candid Chat About Child Sexual Abuse…Are you afraid to read this?
I suspect, just from the title alone, we lost a few folks. Let’s face it, this is an ugly topic and most people avoid it at all costs. Mostly because it’s not happy, it’s messy or maybe they are one […]
Life Begins at… (you fill in the blank!)
Have you ever had to start over? Begin again? Of course you have! We all have. Some of us have been confronted with being laid off or a divorce or a tragedy or a diagnosis or just turning 50 and […]