Blog: Healing Choices
This blog focuses on the small moments that make a good day into a bad day, or a terrible day into a gift of a day. It’s my belief that developing awareness in these small moments is the practice we need to be able to navigate all the ups and downs of life, from loss and grief to love, peace, and joy.
Why Is This Happening To Me?
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...
Turning 45
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...
That Little Voice Inside
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...
How Do You Want To Feel Today?
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...
Energy Drainer
I once had the experience of getting some feedback about a workshop I gave about letting go of energy drainers (anything that drains your energy). One woman who attended the workshop thought the workshop was terrible. How do I know? My husband told me. Let me...
Call and Response
A friend and coaching colleague, Sarah Seidelmann, recently gave me a recorded guided meditation, called Guided Journey To Meet a Core Beastie. One evening, when I was feeling antsy, I grabbed my iPod, headed out the door to walk around (and around) my neighborhood,...
It’s Perfect—Always
Recently my husband was adding a form to my website and he somehow made the whole website disappear from my computer. I have no idea how he did this (neither does he) but when he told me, I just said, “Okay, that’s fine.” And I meant it. I thought, I must need to...
It’s Not You…It’s Me
A good friend, Jane, recently called me to vent about her husband. She’s married, has three beautiful children and a full-time teaching job. She said, “I was enjoying a yogurt after clearing the table, filling the dishwasher, and cleaning off the island, when Pete...
Choosing Not To Suffer
The other day my stepson and his friend came to my house to pick up some of the stuff my stepson had stored in our basement as he was moving to a new apartment. They said they needed to make another trip so I invited them to stay for dinner when they returned. They...
Belief = Action
If you really want to know what I believe, look at my behavior. For example, I’ve been saying for years that I wanted to get out of debt, that having debt is not for me. But if you looked at my spending habits, you could see that I didn’t really believe this. I would...