Category Archives: Emotional Health

For Success, Begin at the End

A larger Midwestern city is about to make a very costly mistake. What does this mean for you? Three applications of their expensive lesson for your life are in this post. Read on. Kansas City has decided to privatize its award-winning international airport, launching a massive redesign. Most are not happy and it’s not theContinue reading “For Success, Begin at the End”

What’s Your Lump of Coal?

Holiday seasons are prime times for exalted expectations. Amid all the hype, images of impossibly happy families, outlandish claims for owning hundreds of products, or a desire to live up to other myths, we can easily become discouraged if we don’t see our own lives living up to the big screen. A children’s story threatensContinue reading “What’s Your Lump of Coal?”

De-Stress Your Self-Talk

“Oh my God, now I have to put up with this too. I can’t believe the nerve. What does he expect?! He never thinks of anyone else. It’s damned if you do or damned if you don’t.” Feeling better after reading this? Of course not. But each day many of us inflict barrages like thisContinue reading “De-Stress Your Self-Talk”

The 1-5 Food Plan

I am a believer in the idea that what we focus on increases. What we are thankful for increases. And that our attention creates our intention.    What if I applied this to my food choices each day? I challenged myself recently to try an experiment. If after a week  it didn’t help me feelContinue reading “The 1-5 Food Plan”

Lighting the Mother Shadow

For some women Mother’s Day is not an easy day. Daughters of mothers who could not nurture them experience emotional fallout that casts a shadow over this day and indeed their lives. Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes about the Stone Child, stories and myths of the unmothered child. As women, we experience “collapsing” and a wildContinue reading “Lighting the Mother Shadow”

Tour America in 4 Hours with Uber

My father drove a city bus for a living. I loved riding in the seat right behind him as we would go around and around the same blocks in our town of 40,000 in Southern Indiana. It was an adventure for a 5 year old little girl as I listened to the people who gotContinue reading “Tour America in 4 Hours with Uber”

Eat or Spend? The High Cost of Insecurity

Almost anyone who struggles with an eating disorder or really any addiction is familiar with how we can switch obsessions. If we are not drinking, we are eating. If we are not eating, we are smoking. If we are not working, we are drinking. On and on. Spending is one of the favorite “go to”Continue reading “Eat or Spend? The High Cost of Insecurity”