When the day to day becomes like a tidal wave threatening to pull you under how do you cope? This occasionally happens to all of us sooner or later, that overwhelm engulfs even the most self-aware among us. I wanted to be “on” for the people I was meeting for the first time and the…
Tag: Encouragement
Motivation, hope, beating blues, defeating depression, taking a pause, lifting up
Beautiful Things
There are times I’ve looked at my life and seen only lost opportunities, broken relationships, and devastating mistakes. My attempts to move forward in different careers or straighten out finances were tripped up by numerous setbacks and delays. Even now, I can point to others who raised their children better, found their perfect mate and lived…
Setbacks and Silver Linings
Do you have the perspective that we don’t always get what we want in this life and that’s just the way it is? What if there’s really more to it than that? I seem to find a lot more silver linings these days. Maybe because I’m always watching for them. While reading Dean Graziosi’s book, Millionaire…
How Bright Is Your Future?
If you’ve ever taken a science class and studied rock formations, you know that it is possible to change the face of a rock, any rock over time, by repeatedly applying something. Water dripping in the same place on a rock will eventually, molecule by molecule, wear a path into that stone. The longer it drips,…
What Time in a Clay Studio Taught Me
Have you ever had something that was a big part of your life? You could be in it every day for so many months or even years. And then something changes. One day you realize it’s in the past, buried under a bunch of time. You might not think about it for so long that…
Is Resistance Blocking Your Destiny?
All summer I’ve read while grounding. Grounding (or Earthing) is where you stick your bare feet in the grass and effortlessly absorb earth’s electrons from the ground in through your soles. Also by sitting, working, or sleeping just let natural vibration of the earth balance out your vibration. I feel calmer and sleep better. It’s almost the same…
Light Your Goals on Fire
How do you plan to achieve your current goals? Have you made a list of your current goals? Do you know what your current goals are? So many of us are able to keep plates spinning in our minds where they take up brain space and energy to keep them there. I liken this to…
It’s Easy for You [Part two]
Last week we left off with Callie, the young woman at the beginning of her adult life who discovered that she had choices. She wasn’t ready for marriage or the responsibility of raising a child. The father of the baby wanted to marry but didn’t want to work. Callie struggled with drinking and substance abuse and…
Dwell in Possibility
Dwell in Possibility. ~Emily Dickinson Ever since I heard this saying, I have felt a kinship to it. It begs for dreamers. It takes the lid off limited thinking. It lets us linger in the land of what-if. Consider this: much of the technology that we comfortably now use every day seemed impossible 75 years…
The Gift of Loss
Written by Libby Taffin Sooner or later, life hands out a season of painful loss and change. There will come a time when the bottom seems to fall out of everything, and the feeling of plunging deep into a dark, dark pit seems uncontrollable. Much like a dream experienced in the depth of night that…
The Tongue of Life & Death
“How do you make the switch from a negative mindset to a positive one?” It begins with a simple process: awareness, reflection & rephrasing.
A Thousand Miles
“The Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.” ~Lao Tsu I read in an article that people with positive attitudes are more likely to see opportunity. Although it comes in many disguises, opportunity can be disguised as failure. It may come clothed as a bad turn of events. It might even reveal…
Juli Ocean 