Do you look for the lessons in the hard times?  Do you figure out the path through and work your way down that path as best as you can?  Or do you let yourself feel defeated and depleted?   Read More

I'm learning that the Universe will smack you straight up the head with a lesson until it gets through to you.  That lesson will keep showing up, in whatever way it can, until you finally take hold of it and understand it and live it and allow yourself to absorb it and grow from it.   Read More

As I was sitting in my car this morning contemplating how to get from the driver's seat into my house successfully without spilling my Starbucks all over myself, I realized how much I used to take very simple tasks for granted.  Before ending up in my garage, I had successfully managed to park on Main St. and get into the bank to use the ATM without getting run over, but it was close.  You see, my left foot is in a cast and currently immobile, which has left me with one good leg and 2 metal crutches as my only means to get around on foot.  Read More

If you haven't heard me talk about it yet, you will now - I've been meditating.  Not just once every once in a while, but twice a day, 15 minutes each time, for 21 days straight.  I took a course called Ziva Online which taught me a type of meditation, and I've made a promise to myself to continue it as a practice.  There are a few things that I've learned so far in my 21 straight days of meditation that I wanted to share (PS - that's 630 minutes of meditation or 10.5 hours...a decent amount of time to spend in your own head and learn a thing or two). Read More

"Those last few hours at home with the kids in the evening before they get to bed are so hard.  I know it's supposed to be a happy time - getting home from work, spending the precious time I have in the day with them.  But instead, it is always so stressful.  I'm tired from working all day, and I still have to get everyone through our entire nightly routine including eating, baths, and everything else.  The kids are usually the crankiest, and instead of enjoying this time, I dread it.  There are usually multiple tantrums involved, lots of crying (not always just the kids...), and screaming (again, not always just the kids...). I feel horrible and am in a horrible mood at the end of the evening, and this is not how I want to live my life!  What can I do??" Read More

I wanted to share my latest thoughts because I get really fired up when I think about this: Life is just too short to waste any time playing small.  What lights your soul on fire?  Find out, and go do it.  You owe it to the preciousness of your life to go do it - no excuses - with nothing getting in the way of pursuing it.  Yes, I get that sometimes we have to be patient, because we can't do everything all at once - Read More

When it comes to the never ending conversation of not having enough time for things - I've found one thing massively helpful.  To Just DO rather than thinking about doing.  The biggest reason for this is when we start thinking about all that has to be done - the tasks seem to grow in size and seem insurmountable.  But instead, if we focus on just doing one thing at a time and keep moving, things just get done and we get this tremendous feeling of accomplishment rather than dread.  Do you ever feel this way?   Read More

Time - it's such an important thing, right?  Everyone has the same number of hours in a day and yet, somehow, we never feel like we have enough to fit in everything we want to do.  Most of my clients tell me that they wish they had more time -- more time to cook, to exercise, to see friends, to play with their kids, to go on date night with their spouses, to sleep, just -- more time.  So, how do you do it?  How do those people who "fit it all in" seem to make it all work? Below are my top tips on how to make time feel like it's on your side: Read More

The other day, my 2.5 year old son was having the biggest tantrum I had seen.  I'm talking level 5 massive screaming head off banging body on the floor type of tantrum that seemed to be lasting for eternity.  As I tried to wait for him to calm down (at that point, nothing I say or do is helpful and in fact causes him to freak out more so I just have to sit nearby and wait it out), I thought back to what he ate earlier in the afternoon. Hmmm, he just had 3 oreo cookies with his afternoon snack not too long ago.  Could this be what was contributing to his hellish behavior?? Or is my son now just crazy and resorting to this behavior because the lego fell off the top of his tower?  Sadly, I think it's the oreos... Read More

I've been feeling totally run down over the past week and I finally hit a bit of a breaking point last night.  It's that dreaded LONG part of winter that feels extra cold and extra dragging and I'm totally over it but know that it's still going to last 2 more months (yikes)!  I've had this lingering, annoying congestion that turned into a hacking cough right when I wanted to sleep last night, and I'd just had enough. Read More