A Big Thank You to all my readers, clients and colleagues.  The past year has been one of growth and challenge and growth. Thank you for allowing me to accompany you on your journeys to a more vital life. Being with you energizes me, and reminds me of how much each of us has to…

Giving and Receiving, otherwise known as sharing. Or is it a season of more stress? Caregivers are used to being the givers, as is implied by the name, and often you may have trouble receiving.  Do you downplay your individual worth, as well as always to look out for others?  At this time of year, this…

Last month, I meant to write about gratitude for our challenges, but I kept putting it off.  Now that Thanksgiving is behind me, it is easier.  For my family Thanksgiving was always the time we celebrated together with extended family at my mom’s house.  It was the one time of year when we were all…

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ~E.B. White I saw this quote recently and was taken by it.  Some days are like this. As healthcare professionals, chiropractors, nurses, physicians, NPs and PAs,  we…

Recently, I assisted in the Coaches Training Institute Synergy class.  It was exciting to be with the students as they completed their core curriculum. We spent some time telling our stories of becoming and being coaches from the perspective of about 10 years in the future. One woman said the title of her story would…

A central component of well-being is the ability to have positive experiences.  Experiencing is not the same as thinking about them; it requires that we feel the emotion and take in the experience.  Sometimes this means we have to pause and take note of our sensations – what our body is feeling, perhaps a sense of…