When we feel grateful, our health and happiness instantly improve. As such, gratitude is featured as a powerful tool in my eBook, “33 Ways to Add More Joy to Your Life.” In that free guide, I recommend thinking of five things that you appreciate in your life right now. That simple exercise can help you …
I am a little late to be posting advice for the new year. But, to be fair, I have been working on this piece since before January 1st. It seems writing about the topic in question is not as simple as I envisioned. I read several places that people were choosing a theme for their year. …
[I have wanted to write this post for nearly a year. Today is the one-year anniversary of my Dad’s death. It’s finally time.] Last winter, a few months after my Dad’s passing, I left the cocoon that my home had become to attend a meditation class with my friend Anne. Her Dad had passed the …
Jon Kabat-Zinn was on Super Soul Sunday this past weekend. As is often the case with the program I have come to see as my in-home church, there were lots of “a ha” moments. Kabat-Zinn is well known as a father of mindfulness teaching. The Center for Mindfulness, which he founded at the University of …
Gratitude Heals All “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss I came upon the above quote the day of the funeral for my husband’s Grandma. It is such an amazing reminder that the sadness of loss comes from our tendency to focus on what is no longer present. If we …
