“I wonder what’s around the bend…” That’s the thought I noticed while on my silent walk last weekend. I was none too pleased when Jackie Gartman announced that our morning hike would be a quiet one. It was the first full day of our coaches retreat and my extroverted, connector self was buzzing with conversations I […]
Change / goals / self care
Are You a Beginner?
I’ve been reading a book called The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman, and in it the author talks about how we humans love new beginnings; a bright shiny new year, a new week, day, month or season, as well as new opportunities that we hope and pray for. What we don’t love: feeling the insecurity and […]
gratitude / self care
Are You Looking For Joy? I can help you find it!
Do you want more joy? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course you do! I spent the better part of January working on, I mean, really working on, my self care practices. I took a long hard look at the good, the bad and the non existent parts of my regimen and the thing that I most […]
Change / Joy / self care
Finding Your Joy in a Pandemic
Remember Fun Fridays? Remember when we used to throw caution to the wind and go to the store sans mask, gloves and hand sanitizer? Although our reality has changed we can still have Fun Fridays (or Saturdays, or Wednesdays for that matter); they just may look a bit different and you may have to put […]
Anxiety / Change / gratitude
What is Your Solid Ground?
Last Friday, in my gratitude post, I mentioned being grateful that my stitches had been removed (skin cancer – margins are all clear) so that I could go back to my exercise routine. I work out as part of my self and mental health care. I don’t do it to get a hard body or […]