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Your Values: A Gateway to Change
We all, at one time or another, want or need a change. Life can begin to feel dry, plastic, and routine. Or go to the other extreme of chaotic, drama-filled, and lack peace. Either can make us want to do something different – anything different. So we make a change....
What is Self-Awareness?
Since deciding to focus my counseling and coaching on the importance of self-awareness, I get asked this question frequently. I explain that self-awareness is the first step in creating the life you want. Knowing yourself involves identifying the different aspects of...
What Grief Taught Me About Self-Discovery
It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged and if you don’t mind - let me indulge myself on you as I tell you a little about the journey I’ve been on. My dad passed away a year and half ago. His passing left me, what shall I say…in a tailspin of sorts. He was one of my...
Top Three Inhibitors of Fulfillment!
When I wrote Finding Me Again: A Journey to an Authentic Life[1],I asked 50 people that I knew what fulfillment meant to them. I got some really incredible answers. A few made it past my editor and actually were included in Chapter 8 What is Fulfillment. One of the...
Appreciate the Present—Whatever It Is!
It’s Thanksgiving Week, and I’m faced with the obligatory task of writing a blog about gratitude...or not? I realize my last blog was about gratitude, so I must veer away from the obvious this time. I coddle my desire to be sync’d with the week’s theme, but I found a...
Fire and Water and State Farm |Gratitude
Nearly seven years to the date I saw my house consumed by fire, I awoke to 2 inches of water throughout my home. My refrigerator filter line busted while I was sound asleep. I’m still walking on concrete floors five weeks later, but there is hope… my area rugs were...