There is great personal empowerment, freedom and joy in giving ourselves permission to be, look and do SILLY and still remain a loyal buddy to ourselves. If we can’t laugh at and with ourselves...

  How do you SELF-SOOTHE when someone has really upset you? For some of us when we lose our emotional footing and feel hurt or unsafe we revert to old forms of emotional escapism as a form of SEL...

  “It’s the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it” Aristotle sets us the challenge. How good are you at respectfully entertaining perspectives you do not...

  RELINQUISH … I just love this word, to me it sounds like a refreshing drink for a thirsty heart. It is the combination of letting go, gentle surrender and peace trickling back into our he...

  “My MISSION in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour and some style.” Ditto. As far as life MISSION statements go Maya Angelo...

  What’s a SEASON? Twelve weeks, approximately 90 DAYS give or take. It makes sense to me that our dear universal parents, Mother Nature and Father Time, prefer a whole SEASON to gift us with the...

  Loving yourself through all life’s good times and shitty times is not vanity; it is the only path to SANITY. Fear misguides us. Love guides us. We get off track and lost in our lives when we al...

  SIBLING RIVALRY is a survival mechanism that becomes destructive when love is scarce so fear reigns within our tribe of origin. Humans will fight SIBLINGS for crumbs of love and respect, as bab...

  “It is a wise person who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.” Jerome Cady reminds us of the fine line between madness and genius. Too many brilliant people have been called STUPID in...

  “Power is being told you are not loved and not being DESTROYED by it” Madonna, like her or not, has nailed it in my view. When others abandon, tell us they no longer love us and leave, that is ...