Who Knew An Empty Nest Could Be So Full?
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 […]
I’ve just finished the book, Lost Connections, about the “real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions” the author, Johann Hari found in his exhaustive investigative work on the subject. If you are anything like me (and my hunch is, you are, or you wouldn’t be reading this) your life has been touched by someone […]
For me margin means space on either side. Just like the lines on the sides of a piece of notebook paper, it puts boundaries onto my days and my life . Practically speaking, it means I bookend my days with quiet before I begin and when I end. It means I pay attention to appointments […]
This morning I woke up excited about the day ahead of me. I sat in my gratitude chair (yep- I’ve got a chair for gratitude time) and meditated and journaled about the class I would teach tomorrow- the class on finding joy through the practice of journaling. And then I looked at my phone. And […]