Category: Featured
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Change Your Life by Writing a Letter to Your Future Self
On March 13, 2010 I received a letter in the mail. The letter was from me to me. I had written it about two months prior not knowing it would end up in my mailbox. I vaguely remember writing it during a group session at an inpatient treatment facility in Tuscon, Arizona. I…
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Take the No Technology Challenge!
Chaos can come in so many different forms. If you are a parent and you love technology like I do it can hit you in a lot of directions. Let’s just start with this number below on my computer…15,907 photos and videos! What?!?! And I haven’t even transferred the 1,551 that are sitting on my phone!…
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How to Be Nice When People are Mean
Be nice to mean people – it is hard, but necessary. This is one of the hardest lessons for my clients. Trust me, there is nothing worse than having someone attack you- especially publicly on Facebook! This recently happened to me and it was awful. However, I was able to turn it into a very…
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Change Your Life With This One Question
You can start changing your life by answering one simple question. It’s the first step. Asking it is easy and answering it also pretty easy. Following through is the hardest part. But today, let’s not focus on that. Let’s just focus on the question. The question that gets to the bottom of it all. I…
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Back to Blogging: 3 Simple Motivational Messages
I am back to blogging and today I bring you three motivational messages. I apologize for the hiatus but sometimes you need to step away. This wasn’t planned, but circumstances pulled me away from sharing my thoughts with you on a regular basis. I received some nice messages from loyal followers looking for my posts.…
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Today is a Great Day: Celebrate the Ordinary
Today is a great day because I celebrate another year of life. This morning I woke up feeling more blessed than usual because of all the wonderful messages I have received. Today is glorious, but not because of my birthday. Today is another day of life, opportunity, and love. Today there are a lot of…
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Dealing With Emotions That Don’t Make Sense
Did you notice anything different about your moods this weekend? Were your more irritable and angry? Or were you one of the lucky ones who was exceptionally happy for no reason? Well, in my house there was some rage, irritability, stress, and tension. And the worst part is that it came out of nowhere…
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3 Simple Ways to Get Through Stressful Times
Stressful times, family fights, heated discussions…oh the joys of life! These things will not go away – ever! You can pretty much count on them always happening. So the key is, how do you make these unfortunate parts of life less painful and difficult? Well I have some solutions. The other day my husband and…
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4 Tips for When Things Aren’t Going Your Way
So things aren’t going your way huh? There is nothing worse than feeling like you have no control over your life. Sometimes you just can’t catch a break. Work is stressful, your marriage is suffering, your kids don’t listen, your family is fighting, your friends don’t call anymore, you can’t lose weight, you don’t have…
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The Secret to Raising Happy Kids
After a recent session with a client I was saddened, troubled and left wondering: How do we grow up in a world and not know that we are supposed to love ourselves? I needed answers, so I went to the experts — my kids. I asked my 5-year-old daughter, Teya, if she loved herself. She looked…