Our beliefs shape our lives. One belief, wrongly held, can cast a shadow over one’s entire life. What do you believe? Do you know what’s driving you? Over the last decade in my work with women over fifty, I have heard said countless times, “I don’t feel that way anymore”,…
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Listen to the Silence
SILENCE & THE HEAT PUMP We’ve lived in the south for close to twenty years and while it’s not uncommon for us to turn on the air conditioning when it’s snowing in other parts of the country, the heat has been running non-stop. That is until our heat pump decided it…
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Windows to Wisdom: “Simplify your life. Make room wherever and whenever you can for new ideas, new experiences, new friends, and new experiences.” SIMPLIFYING is something many of us think more about with each passing year. Have you ever asked yourself, “What do I really need to be happy?” Most of us…
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Watching my parents die was one of the most difficult and painful experiences of my life. It was a modern-day tragedy, their suffering both heartbreaking and unnecessary. I watched, powerless to change a sickness of the mind, a fundamental commitment to their powerlessness. We are all powerless over death, but we are…
View More Conscious AgingTHE BENEFITS OF AGING AND THE HEALING PROCESS
We speak too little of the benefits of aging. But I’ve discovered in the second half of life, that each year we live we have an opportunity to resolve our issues and find inner peace. By the time we reach the half century mark we’ve had enough experience to see…
View More THE BENEFITS OF AGING AND THE HEALING PROCESSBACKWARDS THINKING
We live in a world that encourages backwards thinking. Trained to use our rational minds and to look outside ourselves for direction, we ignore the guidance of our body. The sun streamed through the kitchen window this morning. The warm inviting tendrils wrapped themselves around me like a lost lover.…
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