Are you ready to step into your power?

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Recently I was thrown in the deep end, and as I have experienced many times before, when I get thrown in the deep end, I don’t sink; I swim like a mermaid! It’s in times like this I step into my power. At age ten, I saved a fellow girl scout from drowning when everyone…

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Is your inner critic holding you back?

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Are you your own cheerleader? If you are, that is fantastic, but unfortunately, many of us are not, letting our inner critic be the loudest voice in our head and listening to our negative self-talk. Do you speak to yourself the same way you speak to those that you love and care for? We are…

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Create more flow in your day – get organized.

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Do you get to the end of the day and feel you didn’t accomplish what you wanted to? Do you feel like you want to create more flow in your life but find yourself always racing against the clock to get things done? Perhaps you are trying to accomplish too much in a day. We…

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What is wellness?

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What does wellness mean to you? To me is not just an absence of illness and disease. It’s about finding a balance in your life and your emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health.  Ultimate wellness comes when you live your life in harmony:  your family and friends, romantic relationships, health and wellness, work, recreational time,…

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My deep sleep mystery

Deep Sleep Tips Oura Ring

I’m a little obsessed with sleep and I worry when I hear people say that they only need a short amount of sleep each night, wearing it as a badge of honor and toughness. It’s vitally important to get the full range for sleep cycles; deep sleep, REM sleep, and light sleep. I know that…

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Re-entry into everyday life, how’s it looking for you?

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Thinking back to this time last year and what a shock to the system it was; everyone was suddenly at home, many places were in lockdown.  I remember having colossal anxiety just making the grocery store trip and struggling with walking the neighborhood and having people crossing the road to avoid me; it was all…

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Move towards change with 7 powerful journal prompts.

Welcome the spring season to your life! Whether we acknowledge it or not, we subconsciously live by the seasons. It’s difficult to move towards change at some times of the year and easier at others. As the evenings get darker in the fall, we start to become more introspective and hunker down for the winter.…

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What’s wrong with having a midlife crisis?

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A midlife crisis might just be the call you need to answer. At a party recently, a group of friends talked about an acquaintance who was planning on climbing our local mountain, Mt Rainier. She’s turning fifty and wanted to mark this milestone in her life. The talk was of the training she was doing…

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Your children don’t need you to solve their problems

Daily Stress Reducing Conversation

How a daily stress-reducing conversation can help you all decompress A few weeks ago, I was at a party chatting to a group of women who had children younger than mine.  When I told them my eldest daughter was twenty, one woman immediately asked: “What nugget of wisdom can you tell me that will help…

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How many hats do you wear in a day?

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Make changes in your life to reduce stress and burnout. As parents, colleagues, friends, partners, well let’s face it; as human beings, we wear multiple hats in a day.  Just the other day I was thinking how crazy it was that in just one day I was a mother, nurse, chef, party planner, cleaner, dog…

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