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Warning: Explosion At Risk

Once in a while you have to do something that makes no sense. At least to your logical mind. However for you creative mind this will feel like a long run, eating candy, yoga, or great sex! And if you don’t do it there will be serious consequences. It’s [...]

Podcast: Is Conscious Uncoupling An Option For Divorcing Parents?

Listen Here: Is Conscious Uncoupling An Option For Divorcing Parents? Why is the concept of uncoupling consciously so threatening? Why does parental divorce so often become a process of unconscious un-parenting? So who really loses in divorce [...]

Daddy’s Baby Girl

Being born on Father’s Day, 1950, somehow immediately made me “Daddy’s Baby Girl!” I lived up to that for twelve years; then came my terrible teens! I wish I could take back those rebellious years, for I would never have chosen to be [...]

Summer Sun ‘n Stuff

Isn’t it amazing what a little warmth and sun can do for your mood? Where I live, we’ve just come through one of the bitterest winters on record. Spring didn’t give great respite: it was cool with constant bouts of rain. I recall one afternoon [...]

Podcast: Practical Tips For The Mature Traveler

Listen Here: Today’s guest is Peter Barber, author of Get Up and Get Going – A Practical Guide to the Mature Would-Be Traveller. By blending travel for pleasure with volunteering later in life, Peter provides unique understanding and [...]

Don’t Ditch Responsibility

Our notions of happiness are easily intertwined with the idea of taking it easy, of not having anything to worry about or think about. It’s like being on vacation – all the pressure of work stresses are left behind.  For the one or two [...]

Straight Paths

What Is A Path Every path leads somewhere. A series of steps to a desired destination. Point A to point B. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of life’s ambitions were simple straight lines that lead to instant success? If you have lived longer [...]

Change Your Age And Your Life

Becoming as old as we feel isn’t a myth or an old wives tale; it’s backed by science. How we feel and think about getting older influences how well we age and how we feel about us. It affects our health and our lives. The good news is that [...]

Podcast: Coolhaus Ice Cream Book

Listen Here: Natasha Case is the co-founder of Coolhaus, architecturally inspired gourmet ice cream.  Since their launch at Coachella in 2009, Coolhaus has grown from 1 truck to 5 cities and is carried in 1,500 stores like Whole Foods. Yahoo [...]

Podcast: Single Moms Rock! How To Survive And Thrive As A Single Mom

Listen Here: Kei Renae MBA, is the founder of an organization called “Single Moms Rock” which is dedicated to the empowerment of single mothers. Kei is also author of Single Moms Rock! How to Survive and Thrive As a Single Mom. Single [...]
Think Positive

A Wiser Place To Be

Stress fighter tip: It’s all in our attitude and focus. It’s amazing just how much our attitude affects all we do. Especially when it comes to handling stress in our lives. The chose we make can either make or break us in the situations [...]

Podcast: How Our Senses Rule Our Actions

Listen Here: Dr. Thalma Lobel is an internationally recognized psychologist and author of SENSATION: The New Science of Physical Intelligence, out in April from Atria Books. By sharing fascinating new findings – like how clean smells promote [...]

Podcasts: Tips To Turn Your House Into A Home

Listen Here: Renee Garrison is a former architecture critic of The Tampa Tribune who has written extensively about architecture and interior design, and won two Communication Awards from the American Institute of Architects. Renee is coauthor [...]

Your Life: One Step At A Time

The energy of life on this planet strives to organize into relationships. As with water, you watch it thrive in many forms such as snow, rain, ice and vapor. It gathers as clouds in the sky, which eventually, falls as rain or snow. It drains [...]

How To Reduce Your Grief By Fifty Percent

Many people who lose a love one or a beloved pet have a difficult time getting over their grief. The sense of loss can be great. As an author of a managing fear book, I found that many people view grief and death the wrong way. Many people who [...]
Enjoying Life

Want To Live Your Life With GUSTO?

Do you make a choice, each day, to seize the moment, every single moment? There is an enormous difference between just existing and being fully, joyfully consciously alive.  To live with passion is to really accept and embrace the precious [...]
How To Organize

Remember The Basics Of Getting Your Life And Space Organized

In just a few months I will need to renew my certification as a Professional Organizer. Yes, there really is a three-hour test, requirements and hoops to jump through to get certified! You might think that the test involves how to sort, toss, [...]

Are You A Born Optimist?

Even though sustained negativity is toxic and bad for your health, many people are still more intrinsically pessimistic than optimistic. Is this because they can’t help themselves? Are they born with a propensity towards one view over [...]
Stay Positive

Metaphysical Magic: Spinning Your Narrative To Stay In The Light

Bad stuff happens.  It happens with a certain regularity that just being alive produces.  And yet, we always have choice.  We may not have a choice to completely avoid our hardships but there is a way to alter your thoughts around them in [...]

Podcast: Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years

Listen Here: Mary Taylor Young is an Award-winning Colorado author of 15 books, who has been writing on the landscape, natural history and heritage of the American West for more than 25 years. In her new book, Rocky Mountain National Park: [...]

Podcast: The Top 10 Ways To Beat Anxiety

Listen Here: Jeremy Bennett is the author of The Power of the Mind: How I Beat OCD, and international professional speaker and expert that travels with his highly praised presentation, The Top 10 Ways to Beat Anxiety. In this podcast Jeremy [...]

Podcast: Your Happy Belly Formula

Listen Here: Certified wellness coach, Nadya Andreeva, is on a mission to end the bloating and constipation epidemic spreading among women through her new book, Happy Belly: A Woman’s Guide to Feeling Vibrant, Light, and Balanced. Nadya discusses [...]

Want To Boost Your Mood?

We all have periods of time when we feel down and blue. Maybe, things seem to be picking on us with undue stress or things are happening beyond our control. A few suggestions to help you feel better: Walking   When you are stressed, get out [...]

A Few Tips to Avoid Nagging

“Clean your bedroom!” “Pick up the wet towel after your shower!” “Shut the light when you leave the room!” These are a few of the things I would scream –  like a broken record – to get my family [...]

Life Steers, You Stir

I’ve been busy the past few months, which is a good thing. However what I’ve been doing is not my art. I needed a decided effort to make any art at all. Creating has become a chore, but I don’t stare at a blank page or canvas. I look at [...]

The Winter Hell Froze Over

I know there are those of you who love winter. You love skiing, ice-skating, snow-boarding, building snowmen, and you even love shoveling snow. What is the matter with you? Were you born in a barn? This winter has proved that most of us are [...]

Live Free – Forgiving Wisdom On Letting Go Of Grudges

Back in high school, rumors started as fast as a lightning storm to destroy any girl’s reputation. Often out of jealousy for some perceived transgression, classmates concocted stories to create hurt for another person. As we grew older, most [...]

Online Bridal Gown Buyer Beware!

A wedding gown is the purchase of a lifetime. Many of us have dreamed of the perfect bridal gown so sweet it’s practically candy. Although shopping online has its advantages, there are a number of pitfalls that can cost you more than just [...]

Old Dogs, New Art Tricks

I’ve found a few new tools to make it possible for me to create something on an almost daily basis. This is a very good practice to incorporate into my routine. Of course, I’ve had some pitfalls to navigate, like learning to use a new portable [...]

Words I Can Live Without!

Don’t be pushed by your problems in life, but led by your dreams. Have you ever thought how powerful words are and how much energy they carry in our everyday conversations? Five words I am trying to eliminate are: SHOULD  –  This [...]

How To Handle Discouragement

At some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us. We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. We may lose a friend or spouse. At some juncture, we may grieve our circumstance in a hopeless job [...]

Planting A Garden In Your Mind

In America today, you notice an endless stream of teens, college kids and employees looking down into their Smart phones. At bars, women line the dance floor with a white light shining up into their faces from their phones as they stare into [...]

Podcast: How to Design a Healthy, Safe Space for Your New Baby

Listen Here: Trina Masepohl is an engineer turned interior designer and author. She turns her technical expertise and love of design to helping parents create healthy, safe environments where their children can grow and thrive. Her new book, The [...]

Podcast: My Kitchen Shrink Smoothie

Listen Here: Elyse Wagner is a food and attitude expert with over 15 years of experience with a dual masters in holistic nutrition and health psychology with a passion to help you stop food guilt, body shame, and hating on your body so [...]

Podcast: 10 Smartest Decisions For Women After 40

Listen Here: Licensed psychotherapist, Tina Tessina, or “Dr. Romance” has authored 13 books in 17 languages, including the bestseller – “The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty” – a reference guide [...]