Creative Success Depends on Long View
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In this podcast, we feature author Taylor Marsh, who [read more]
When You Retire: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
With a surprising number of boomers heading towards retirement, most are not ready to spend their days hitting the golf balls or playing bridge.
Instead they are looking to the future with enthusiasm and gusto. Why? Because they know that now [...]
Along Our Life Path: Death Hides In The Bushes
At the age of 17 while driving home from baseball practice, my father’s best friend pulled me over in my Chevy clunker.
He walked up to my window with a sad look on his face.
“Frosty,” he said. “I’ve got some bad news for you…your [...]
Loneliness Is Merely an Attitude You Can Abolish Today!
Nobody — whether single, in a long-term committed relationship or anything in between — is completely immune from that often-painful feeling of loneliness.
That is, however, until you can see it for what it is: an attitude that’s [...]
Wishing Everyone a Civil 2016
The New Year always brings the opportunity to reflect on the past and potential improvement for the following year.
New Year’s resolutions typically include losing weight, quitting smoking, joining a gym, or even saving money. One thing to [...]
Why Exceptions are Important Especialy on the Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house . . .
Mice or not, I just needed a room at the inn.
I scheduled a well-known hospitality venue for a stay over the holidays. Rather than the traditional hotel, I opted for this billion [...]
Divorced or Separated With Kids? Here Are 3 Tips for Helping Them Through This Holiday Season
The holiday season seems to come upon us earlier and earlier each year.
Even before Thanksgiving, I started to notice all of the signs — colorful lights strung in front of houses, a glimpse of lit trees through windows and cheerful holiday [...]
Dementia’s Terrible Legacy For Her Kids
At 93, my mother Vivien lives daily on the edge of the “long sleep” awaiting her after a dynamic life of work, dancing, sports, travel, golf, gardening and raising her children.
While her body continues its earthly journey, her mind leaves [...]
How To Empty Your Emotional Backpack When It Gets Too Heavy
Each winter I load my backpack up for mountaineering skiing to 10th Mountain Huts in the Rocky Mountains.
I load survival gear to make sure I don’t die while I cross-country up to the top of 13,000-foot mountains at 40 below zero. In the summers, [...]
Fifty Shades of Civility
With 50 Shades of Grey making the rounds on cable this month, we have an opportunity to peek into the psyche of a psychological bully.
At the root of this highly stylized version of the Pacific Northwest, is an impressionable young woman, Anastasia [...]
Podcast: Changing Your Life Despite Your Circumstances
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Zelda Hayes is also known as LadyZee, author of Jezebels Last Dance: It’s Every Woman’s Story, which sets the stage of how trauma from childhood to adulthood play a huge part in the choices we make in love and life itself.
Changing [...]
Podcast: Get It Together Girl
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Karyn Beach is the host of the Get It Together Girl Podcast, where she celebrates women in their Fabulous 40s, Feisty 50s and encourages them to make their second act their best act.
Get It Together Girl
What is the Second [...]
Podcast: From Gloomy to ZESTY
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Linda Babulic is a ZEST Expert and author of ZEST Your Life – A Taste of Inner Wisdom which offers the confidence and happiness building recipe that women everywhere have been waiting for. From one-on-one consults, to [...]
Podcast: How To Choose Happiness
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Happiness Engineer and Gratitude Consultant Pas Simpson, specializes in helping people move out of their own way to follow their passion, define what success feels like to them, while building a lifetime of happiness. Pas is [...]
The Voluptuousness Of Living
“Everything is downhill from here, ‘cept what’s up…it’s all in your attitude.” Katie Lee, 95, Jerome, Arizona, singer, environmental activist.
Long ago, before modern communications, before electric lights, before mobility—people [...]
Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations
Too often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future.
They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an [...]
Living In The Conversation of Your Life
Six days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout.
I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage [...]
Can We Keep Calm In Every Situation Nowadays?
The internet meme of the British World War II slogan, “Keep Calm and Carry On” has morphed into any number of amusing applications.
The latest I saw was “Keep Calm and Have a Tarot Reading”! Is it really possible to keep calm in any [...]
Domestic Violence and Baby Boomers
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Which means that the media will be featuring many stories to bring awareness of and support for this devastating and insidious problem.
You may read about the estranged husband murdering [...]
Self advocacy- a step toward minimizing workplace bullying
As we reflect on best practices for civility in the work place, many of us strive to be kind, pleasant and agreeable.
However, there is a self-advocacy component to avoiding bullying in the workplace. When someone throws a barbed comment or [...]
Death: A Tight Shoe Taken Off So You Can Find A New Way To Dance
Last year, seven of my lifelong friends made their transition back to the greater dimensions of the universe.
One very young and the rest spread across a time line of decades. Each lived a spectacular life. You might say that each died with [...]
Be Kind to Yourself
You’ve heard the expression, “You are your own worst enemy.”
Well, this statement is unfortunately very true. You are probably more accepting and forgiving of others than you are of yourself. That’s because you sabotage yourself with [...]
Change is good. Transformation is even better.
We use words all the time.
Often we don’t really know or think about their meaning. Heart murmur was a word like that. Until my dog was diagnosed with one, I didn’t really know what it was. In business we use words like change and transform [...]
Choosing Low Self-Esteem: Carrying The Mental Equivalent For Self-defeat
Millions of Americans live their lives with low self-esteem.
Teenagers learn it from one or both parents. Others choose it by comparing themselves with movie stars. Many young women mutter to themselves, “I’m not good enough…I’m not [...]
Women: The Ambassadors of Change
As women, change is second nature.
It’s starts in the beginning. Sometimes before we even hit the double digits of age, barely finished playing with dolls, the transformation begins and suddenly why does my chest look different? Wait, are [...]
Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance
How do ideas strike you?
When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through [...]
The Point Of True Beginning: Your Perfection
Back in the 1880s while living as a sawyer in Yosemite National Park, America’s first ecologist, John Muir, lived face to face with nature.
He climbed into the High Sierras throughout his life. He summited mountains, fished in clear streams [...]
You and Time
Even though it’s bitterly cold and snowy, the calendar tells me we’re already into the thawing season.
A third of 2015 is nigh being reached and no doubt you’re wondering where the time went or is going – with or without you. Time is [...]
Podcast: Overcoming Obstacles For Change
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Certified Life Coach, Glenda Thomas, is the owner of Integrated Life Coaching. is co-authoring a book with Jim Britt and Jim Lutes entitled The CHANGE.
Overcoming Obstacles For Change
What is the book The Change to about?
Why [...]
Podcast: Solutions for Working Moms
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Christy Largent is the author of 31 Positive Communication Skills for Women Devotional and host of Encouraging Words for Working Moms podcast where each week she interviews successful working moms to uncover their strategies, [...]
Podcast: Navigating Life – 8 Simple Strategies
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Rachel Heslin is an author, speaker, and life coach. Her current book, Navigating Life: 8 Simple Strategies to Guide Your Way, explores how we can learn to choose from all the possibilities that tug at us every day.
Navigating [...]
Illusion of Being Right: High Level Fear Wearing A Mask
We humans make judgments on just about everything that comes into our eyesight.
We judge ourselves when we look into the mirror in the morning. We judge our friends by the cars they drive. We judge strangers by the clothes they wear. We judge [...]
Beating the Blizzard Blues
I concede I dreamed of a white Christmas.
I will even admit I sang, “Let It Snow, Let It Snow.” Several years ago, before I retired from teaching, the thought of a “snow day” meant a whole day of relaxing, catching up on grades and staying [...]
Becoming Empowered But Still Being Loving
Discussing the ways in which someone becomes more empowered on the spiritual path while increasing the ability to be loving is a subject of some confusion.
People tend to equate empowerment with toughness, and love with softness. Can these [...]
Podcast: Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life
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Frank Healy is a Life Coach and Licensed Professional Counselor, author of Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life which provides practical tips and exercises to help heal from memories that make you angry, depressed, or anxious, [...]
Podcast: Animals Are Our Best Teachers
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Kelly Meister Yetter is the author of Crazy Critter Lady and No Better Medicine. Both books detail her experiences rescuing abused and unwanted animals. Both books also chronicle how caring for animals has helped her heal from [...]
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