LET ME COUNT THE WAYS! I love that… This lovely soft rosy stone has been known throughout history as a seed of the heart. Scholars tell us this beautiful pink stone was utilized as a symbol of eternal and lasting love as early as 600 B.C. I love that… This …
Read More »Am I Mentally Healthy?
In our last post, we explored “What is Mental Health?” Do you remember the answer? No worries. This isn’t a test…just yet. Mental Health is one of the 6 health types that make up who we are. Of these six, Mental Health is key to our ability to initiate …
Read More »Dissolving Barriers to Love
Your Task is not to seek for Love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. – Rumi It doesn’t matter how old we are, or what our backgrounds or our spiritual belief systems are – love and relationships are important to all …
Read More »What Is Mental Health?
What is it about the suicidal death of a brilliant star that stuns us to our core? Could it be our culture’s belief that the famous, by their very definition, experience a level of happiness the rest of us can only dream about? Or, maybe because our society worships so …
Read More »Red Roses Say “I Love You”
Ever wonder how the red rose became the symbol of love? Throughout Western culture, the rose’s historical association as the official symbol of love and Valentine’s Day can be traced back to the Victorian age. During that time, men (and sometimes women) would send roses to the object of their …
Read More »The Imperfect Road to Success – Just “Endeavor”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau It’s a brand new year – and with that comes the opportunity to make this the …
Read More »What “An Attitude of Gratitude” Really Means
When bad things happen, it’s often hard to see any good in it. It’s easy to get stuck in self-pity, anger and resentment. Efforts to try and make sense of things or to find the specific reason that a bad thing happened are counterproductive. We don’t need those answers before we …
Read More »Who Makes YOU Happy?
It doesn’t take long for us to bring to mind those special individuals who make us happy. They’re the ones who have transformed our lives with their love, concern and caring. They’re the ones who are genuinely interested in our well-being. They’re the voice of hope in our lives when …
Read More »FEAR Re-defined
FEAR is what we experience when we come to the border of what we’ve known. It can rise up when we are stretched beyond our comfort zone. But, fear is only an experience that we are having. It doesn’t have to define us or hold us back. At the crossroad …
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