Dear Gorgeous Souls! Focus on what you can do, and you will feel a happier and healthier difference in your life! Here’s you walking along in all your sunshiny potential … …when suddenly, DRAMA! It could be you caught a news clip. Or you got some bad news. Or someone is mean to you. … … Read more
Dear Bright Stars and Happy Holiday Hearts! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Pauli and I celebrate Christmas, and if you celebrate Christmas, we wish you a very merry holiday! For those of you celebrating Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Las Posadas, Diwali, Chinese New Year, HumanLight, and Newtonmas, we also wish you a very happy holiday! … Read more
Hello Happy Holiday Hearts! So. Story time. LOL. Pauli comes home from work about a month ago and says, “They’re having a holiday door decorating contest at work …” No need to finish that statement. “Challenge ACCEPTED!!!” Challenge Accepted! In under 90 seconds I’d grabbed the nearest writing implement (a blue highlighter) and a piece … Read more
Hello Gorgeous Blossoms!!! Life happens. And sometimes it happens to not be nice about it. We can feel stress, frustration, anger, … a whole range of negative emotions … none of which are actually helpful. Most are usually hurtful, in fact. It can be so easy to give into the negative emotions. So incredibly satisfying. … Read more
Hello hungry, happy hearts! Flu/cold season is here. A day doesn’t go by that I’m not reading about one of my peeps falling down to a mean bug of some sort. Ugh! I hate being sick!!! So let’s talk about one of the most healing foods you can ever eat: Chicken Bone Broth! Why is … Read more
Sweetest Love Muffins, I LOVE gluten. I love it in my cakes, cookies, muffins, breads, biscuits, grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza, pasta, brownies, croissants, coffee cake, donuts, gravies, cereals, … Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm … Gluten!!! I miss it so much. This will be my second holiday season sans the gluten. No Thanksgiving stuffing, gravies, desserts … oh my. … Read more
Hello Gorgeous Loves, I haven’t always been strong. For a very long time, I wasn’t very strong at all. And there are still times when I don’t feel strong. But there’s this thought in my head, this guiding principle I use to grow: What you give power, has power. This guiding thought is an offshoot … Read more
Hello Happy Hearts! A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how kindness saved my life. In my story of me, I talked about having a safe place to go and be while life was beating me down. In our happy chit chat today, I want to grow this idea into a bursting toolbox of … Read more