In 2024, why not focus on what you would never change about yourself and amplify that?

The more I meet my needs, the more power I feel. Every time. I can replicate the feeling of power by ensuring that my feelings and needs count as much as anyone else's. The power comes from what I experience as true self-love.

A relatively new area of study - the effects of play on adults - reveals that in our adult years, play has similar positive effects on the brain as it does in childhood and it is essential for healthy living.

I’ve finally learned that when I choose mindfully to meet my needs (whatever they are in the moment), the world does not come to an end…

Journal, breathe and move your way mindfully toward the new year. You’ll stay connected to what really matters for you this holiday season…

When you release your attachment to the outcome of your efforts big things can happen…

The away-jersey was a symbol of this new phase for us both. We will always be home in each other no matter where we may wonder in world. He’s still on the team. He’s just playing away. It was exactly what I needed…

How you nurture yourself is up to you. It can be a powerful act of emotional and physical wellbeing that supports your growth or it can be a depleting act that undercuts your ability to live with joy and abundance. The choice is yours, all day long.

Love is vastly nuanced and comes in a billion varieties. I am suggesting that love can be experienced as the sensations of embodied appreciation.

…I heard a huge crash from upstairs. I turned around to see a giant object pounding itself down the front hall stairs, rolling end over end, until it slammed onto the hardwood foyer floor and crashed into the front door with a crescendo of shattered glass.

“Your body cannot heal without PLAY.

Your mind cannot heal without LAUGHTER.

Your soul cannot heal without JOY. “

Both the bear and Arthur had a message: you can work smarter, not harder, and enjoy a great return on your life-investment. Genius. A brand of genius I seriously lack. Instead, I liken myself to a manually-inflated balloon, breathing that balloon bigger and bigger with extraordinary effort to expand and expand until nearly bursting; then squeezing to keep in all the air until I can’t squeeze anymore. Suddenly, (it seems sudden), I leak air at warp-speed and zoom directionless around the room until I splat, flattened on the floor…

There are times in life when you need to give up to move forward. You need to give up so you can heal. You need to give up so you can grow up. Even in your 50’s.

In the silence of earliest light, I rise and breathe snow. White covers the thin remains of winter, freezing what has been to make space for what is now, and opens a vast, blank page for what is possible. I walk. Snow floats in tiny crystals hovering, then dancing, thawing so tears are snowdrops

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with lacquer mixed or dusted with gold, silver, or platinum. Even missing pieces are forged in a precious metal and replaced. In other words, kintsugi highlights the broken places with gold rather than trying to minimize or hide the repairs

I want to talk about the power of color. You can, of course, Google the psychology of color and read what researchers have discovered about how everyone from advertisers to athletes use color to improve sales, create loyalty, enhance mood, and boost performance. My discovery about the power of color is from personal experience.