June Thoughts

Thoughts.. Changes…. In the vein of changes, this will be our last monthly newsletter.   The Monday morning quote and weekly Thursday blog will continue to (hopefully!) provide inspiration and free, health-focused information; however the jam-packed format we’ve done for over a decade will conclude this month. In the focusing of direction and decisions one…

May Thoughts

Thoughts.. I always consider May to hold a theme of manifestation–   arms wide open, flowers blooming, finally-arriving-after-a-period-of-hard-work kind of manifestation.   In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, take a moment right now and acknowledge some self-destructive habit or thought process that you no longer do…   some situation you no longer give energy…

April Thoughts

Thoughts… Hoping you are feeling a bit lighter, less bound by your mind chatter, less taunted and ridiculed by your gremlins. It’s been a rough go… There is nothing like feeling the sensation of lightness after a heavy, dense storm. This too shall pass….. I always feel after you emerge from darkness, from confusion, from…

March Thoughts

Thoughts… Every year, usually the first weekend in March, I take a personal, quiet, pretty much silent, retreat. For many years, I went to Kripalu. However, for the past few years, I’ve taken the retreat at home because I could-it’s fairly quiet at my house…well, apart from the fact that my daughter often sings musical…

February Thoughts

Where else, how else, might you choose love? This is what I’m asking myself this month. Love doesn’t have to be mushy or waxing philosophical. Love can look like:   An extra hug to your kids when they are navigating school the way it is these days. (Even when they push you away or say…

January Thoughts

Time is everything. Each day we have twenty-four hours to create what we want to have. We have the gift of getting up every day and deciding for ourselves how we want to live and love fully. What does that look like for you? What is your vision? It is more important than ever to…

December Thoughts

December: A soft landing to a tumultuous year.   That is my wish for you this month: Grace.   Grace in difficult moments, with difficult people, during difficult times. For the grace you offer now, is the foundation on which you build your future.   A Course in Miracles writes (with my own tweaking to…

November Thoughts

Inspired by a recent article written by Elizabeth Bernstein about how words matter, I wanted to highlight in this month’s column just how important it is to think about not only what we say, but how we say it.   Now more than ever before, we are being called to examine our less-than stellar behavior,…

October Thoughts

I run this same column every October because of the positive feedback and inspiration it generates. May you, too, have a grateful perspective this October: I once knew a man, an artist, in great despair. We were discussing the concept of gratitude and the idea that when we take time to reflect on what we have…

September Thoughts

September! When I think of lifestyle, it evokes all areas of a person’s focus, not just what we buy or where we live. When you think of your lifestyle today and how you are living it, are you getting a good feeling? Are you somewhat off? Or really far apart from the landscape you want…