When Our Rules Break Us
Image credit Shutterstock "Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to the rules." - Shannon Alder Years ago, I used...
When We Miss the Chaos
“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.” - R.D. Laing We finally have reached our...
Finding Peace in the Moment
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the...
The Emotional Hangover
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell While summer is thought of as a time of vacation and...
What We Lose From the Pursuit of Perfection
I used to think being a perfectionist was a positive quality. Some years back, I remember taking a quiz in some teenage magazine that...
Why NOT to Make a Resolution
It’s that time again; the time of workout ads and inspirational quotes about making this the ‘year of you’. There is just an overall...
Three Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day
Time is Short Lately, it has really hit me about my purpose, and how to make the most of what is right in front of me. It’s not that I...
A Stranger to Moderation
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” -Rumi Finding balance is a quest on which I have been traveling for years, and I am...
Freedom in Surrender
“I couldn’t fight the tide, so I decided to float along.” – David Levithan This was a rough week, and I surrendered to the ‘Perfect...
Battling the Inner Critic
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh My...