10 Ways to Calm Anxious Thoughts and Soothe Your Nervous System
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield Freezing in fear is something I have done since I was a child. My first home was an…
5 Tips For Talking With Your Teen About Using Substances
Raising children is a difficult task that only strengthens when that child becomes a teen. During adolescence, it is a time of discovering who they are, and they will often…
It’s Amazing How a Little Kindness Can Open Someone’s Heart
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so…
How Releasing Control Opened Me Up to a Limitless Life
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ~Robert Bach I have always wanted to create a family. As a child, I lovingly cared…
Why I Had to Stop Judging Myself to Start Healing from Childhood Trauma
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” ~Brené Brown A few years ago, when I…
FREE Global JOY Summit! Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and More…
Hi friends! I’m excited to invite you to the upcoming Global Joy Summit, a FREE online even running from November 13th to 16th. This is an amazing opportunity to be inspired…
The 5 Happiness Zappers and What Helps Me Cope with Them
“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.” ~Eckhart Tolle When my mother told me, “Honey, you don’t understand; you can’t,” initially I felt…
Children’s Movies are Obsessed with Death, but Don’t Show Healthy Grief
“Grief is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in…