by dmackinnon | Jun 27, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
This past month I decided to give up sugar. I have never been much of a sweets lover—until I had my son. Then I went on a KitKat kick. No other candy interested me, but I ate a few of those snack-sized KitKats every day. Then, one day, Peppermint Patties became my new...
by dmackinnon | Jun 20, 2012 | Healing Choices, Limiting Beliefs
I think of myself as a rule-follower, but there is one rule that I find myself breaking more and more as time goes by. The rule I break most often is the unspoken rule that says we have to “be nice.” This usually means, “keep quiet and don’t rock the boat.” For...
by dmackinnon | Jun 13, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
Recently, my husband got home from work a few hours earlier than normal and asked me if I wanted to take off to do some of my own stuff. He didn’t have to ask me twice. I packed up my workout bag and my laptop and headed out the door. My plan was to go swimming and...
by dmackinnon | Jun 6, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
I turned 45 not too long ago and had the urge to write one of those “the great things about getting older” posts. I have a list of 10 things that are great about being 45 versus, say, 25. Not that 25 was bad—25 was great! I was in my first year of medical school, I...
by dmackinnon | May 29, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
Sometimes I get this feeling of knowing. I just know that something is going to happen. Sometimes I even hear it as a voice, telling me something is going to happen. I have learned to pay attention to this feeling, this voice, even when it sounds crazy or seems...
by dmackinnon | May 23, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
For the past few months, I’ve been asking myself the same question every morning: How do I want to feel today? Most of us ask ourselves questions all the time, and there is usually one that we ask over and over again—Susan Hyatt and Brooke Castillo call it the Primary...
