When you have a craving, be it for a cookie or a cocktail, walk. When you’re angry, be it at the world or yourself, walk. When you’re disappointed, be it downtrodden from a bad day or because your dream has dashed away, walk. When you’re frustrated, whether...
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Why always be positive?! It’s like this phrase I have heard and taught my kids, “unkind words are not welcome here.” Same concept, different topic…Sure, negative thoughts and feelings come into my head every day, but I have a choice whether or not I give...
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Wash the dishes slowly darling. Fold the clothes slowly. Vacuum slowly and sweep slowly and take care of the pets slowly. We rush. We rush because we are busy. We rush because we are bored. We rush because it is mundane. We rush because our mind has moved...
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A lot of times we look at other people and they look seemingly perfect. Either they look perfect themselves or they look like they have the perfect lives, or they look like they handle life’s challenges perfectly; or worse, they look like they do not have...
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Oh me, oh my, there is nothing that inspires penetrating anxiety like the fear of a panic attack. How ironic, since, after all, a panic attack is really just extreme anxiety. It was about a year after my husband died that I had my first panic attack, on the...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.