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Running from FEAR?

Why are we always running from fear? I knew it was a ridiculous question when my mentor asked it — because the right response to fear is...

From Doormat to Presidential Consultant

This Blog was originally published on plaidforwomen.com When she looked in the mirror, she saw herself as an obedient daughter and a...

Your Life is Driven by Something

Everyone’s life is driven by something. Thomas Carlyle said, “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” None of us want...

The Essence of Hope

Hope. I hope this finds you doing well. I hope so. I hope to. . . There is something that hangs in the air when we use this word hope. It...

You Can't Just Do It!

I’m caught in a cycle. Every morning I tell myself I’m going to accomplish THE THING. You know the one, the thing that I’ve been pushing...

3 Secrets for Uncertain Times

On my 50 birthday I awoke jobless, homeless, alone for the first time in 30 years and able to say "I'm better than I should be." I was...

I'm Uncomfortable!

It’s been two years since I’ve walked into a yoga class. My muscles have formed a very tight union. Like most unions, they typically get...

Sit in the Pain

Pain makes me stir crazy! I have been in a great deal of physical pain the last two weeks. Every waking minute I focus on how to get out...

Feel Defeated by Change?

Junior High seemed daunting, too much, too different, too foreign. I didn’t want to go. I drilled my sister, a year ahead of me in...

6 Steps to Short Sheet Anxiety

Short sheeting the bed is a favorite pastime of my extended family. Any family reunion is a guarantee someone’s bed will be short...

Overwhelm - Don't Choose It

This all feels so overwhelming — anxiety, fear, stress, the unknown — it feels like too much some times. If you are like me, you are...

5 Keys to Navigating Scary Times

His face looked like a marshmallow after the flames had been blown off of it. I stood by his hospital bed packing him in ice every few...

She did it Afraid

Ida B Wells, an investigative journalist, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862, was the first of eight children. She was...

Accept the Worst

I am a huge Olympic fan, or maybe an Olympic junkie. I absolutely love watching the athletes experience “the thrill of victory and the...

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