“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for […]
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller Often when people learn that I am a counselor and wellness coach they ask, “Don’t you get tired of
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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery” – James Joyce It may not be confession time but I will say it anyway. I spent the better part of the four decades on this planet in a human body being
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This blog post is inspired by and dedicated to my mother. “It takes a long time to become young.” – Pablo Picasso At some point in my late 20s I started to dread my birthday. I dreaded signs
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“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy Have you made any changes in your life recently and been surprised by the reactions from the people you love?
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My Dad was a phenomenal parent, the kind that should have had a hundred kids because he was just so darn good at it. He had this gift for turning any ordinary event into a teaching point. Leave
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“Find your own ‘sweet spot’. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.” – Kofi Awoonor I sometimes wonder how I survived the first 10 years of my career. Caught in a circle of jobs that didn’t
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“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.” – R.D. Laing On January 3, 2010 at about 11:00 pm eastern time, my husband of over 25 years told me he thought
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No doubt, I had bitten off way more than I could chew. While I generally enjoy juggling many plates, I knew a few months ago that I had stepped over that invisible boundary of “busy” into “overwhelmed.” That’s
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly try to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Growing up, I never had that sense of fitting in. I was always the tall,
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There is no passion to be found by playing small-in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela 11 years. 11 years I’ve been doing this shit I
