What Does Freedom Mean To You?

Sometimes freedom is just a state of mind.

Freedom. For some, it means not being incarcerated. For some it means not being enslaved. For others, it means: getting divorced quitting a  job graduating from high school or college leaving home paying off debts But once you’ve done those things, do you really experience more freedom–and for how long? Can you be free while [...]

Doing What’s Necessary When It’s Necessary

Sometimes life just hands you situations and you simply do what’s necessary. Or at least you begin taking steps to do what you think might be necessary. Then you watch, wait, listen to see if the pieces fall into place. A friend reminded me of Angeles Arrien’s teaching: Show up. Pay attention. Speak your truth. [...]

Find the Strength to Get Up When You Fall

I’ve been working really hard lately to change my negative thoughts into positive ones in a variety of areas in my life. I’m a firm believer in the creative nature of our thoughts and words. Sometimes, however, I need inspiration as well–I need to be reminded that I need to keep persevering even when something [...]

Are You Enjoying the Journey to Your Destination?

This morning I happened to take the time to click on Jeff Herring’s SUNDAY MORNING INSPIRATION: It’s the journey, not the destination. I was so pleased to watch this great clip from the movie “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” which is also one of my favorite books by Dan Millman. I found this a [...]

Don’t Let Money Stand in the Way of Living Fully

I write this post today as much for myself as for you–although, I suppose, that’s the truth on most days. As the the wisdom of the sages goes, we teach what me most need to learn. The lesson today: Don’t let money stand in the way of living fully. I say that humbly and with [...]

Hillel’s 3 Lessons on How to Live Life

“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?” ~Rabbi Hillel I went to sleep last night thinking about a friend, not much older than myself, who is facing the last days of his life. I [...]

Will you pick yourself or wait to be picked?

In a recent blog post, best-selling author and marketing expert made this statement:”No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” He was talking about the fact that authors and musicians are making millions without so-called “gatekeepers.”  They aren’t waiting any longer for publishers and record companies–the “pickers”– to offer contracts. They are picking themselves [...]

Lessons Learned from Children's Lives

Over the last two weeks I’ve spent a lot of time with my daughter preparing her for college  and helping her deal with leaving behind a boyfriend she cares about deeply. These two teens maturely choose to end the relationship to allow each other freedom while they live on opposite coasts and experience life in [...]

A Testament to the Human Will to Survive

This video pretty much says it all…Human’s have a huge ability to survive even the worst situations–even concentration camps. Yet, many of us feel we can’t survive much less difficult situations in our lives. We need only look at the huge suicide rates in teens to know that this is true. Here we have a [...]

The Things That Give Us a Reason to Live

elderly woman with dog

I visited my 86-year-old mother this past weekend. She was depressed and upset because her dog has contracted Lyme disease and possibly also hurt its back. The dog isn’t eating and can’t walk well; it  has lost control of one of it’s hind legs. My mother, also, seems to have lost her appetite. That dog [...]