~ What My Dog Taught Me About Living A Meaningful Life Change and loss are woven into life. We cannot live a full life without them. Although both can be painful they push us into a greater understanding of what matters in life and they can help us become clearer with our true self as [...]

Focusing on what you want helps you get what you want faster. My article “5 Steps to Making Your Dreams a Reality” came out today on MindBodyGreen.com where I share tips to help you manifest your desires faster. Along with the steps I share, I also create Vision Boards, boards with photos, images and motivational ideas [...]

Are you running in place? Do you feel like you are settling? You don’t have to, it is simply a choice that you make everyday. You have the power to take back your happy. It’s time to reclaim your life. Starting now, give up…  1. People who bring you down and make you feel bad. [...]

Featured in “Chicken Soup for the Soul The Magic of Mothers and Daughters” Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb   I can’t believe I am doing this again. I am crying hysterically, hidden behind the closed bathroom door at work. I seem to have it together everywhere else, but [...]

“At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?” ~ Jack Kornfield Happy March, my favorite month of the year, because my birthday is in eleven days. Which means that the entire month is a giant celebration. It is no secret that birthday celebrations leave a fantastic [...]

Featured in the Sherwood Gazette  When was the last time you laughed so hard that you cried? Chances are it’s been awhile. Adults spend the majority of their time stressing about how to solve their problems, taking care of others and just trying to balance it all by staying one step ahead, which leaves little [...]

Featured in the Sherwood Gazette You are perfect, precious and awesome just as you are. When you were a child you did not judge, analyze or beat yourself up for making a mistake. You simply were. You were a perfect being comfortable in your own skin and happy to be alive. But things happen in [...]

Featured in Tinybuddha.com “Some people think it’s holding that makes one strong—sometimes it’s letting go.” ~Unknown A few weeks ago, I took a sip of my morning tea hoping that the day would be better than the prior ones. I had somehow tripped over the cracks of life and couldn’t seem to pull myself back. [...]

Featured on Crazy. Sexy. Life. “What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha Even though life is sometimes messy and unpredictable, there is one constant — opportunities will come and go. And the reality is that opportunities are abundant when we are open to them. [...]

Featured in Chicken Soup For The Soul: Find Your Happiness   You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull The co-worker who sat behind me was getting married. He proudly tacked the corners [...]