Life-giving or Life-sucking – your choice
I have somehow found myself on a list for a blog that’s very disturbing, and from which I will remove myself. The writer of this blog appears to be committed to finding and presenting everything in life that could possibly demonstrate the dark side, the hopelessness and despair, the victimhood and powerlessness, and the anxiety…
You Can Resolve or You Can Decide – Which one can change your life?
So the new year has begun and all over the world resolutions are being made – and the majority of those resolutions will never be accomplished. A great place to see this in action is at the gym where, on January 2, crowds of people who haven’t seen the inside of a health club maybe…
“I Had No Choice. . . . . Really? “
I hear this a lot, that the actions taken by an individual were, in asense, forced upon that individual; that there had been no otheraction possible, no other choice available. But the truth is that inevery situation we face there are numerous, maybe hundreds ofother possible reactions or responses we could have chosen.Some of those…
You Don’t Always Get What You Want, but. …..
So you may have had the disappointing experience of using whatyou understand as the Law of Attraction, and not seeing anythingthat resembles the result you thought you would enjoy. “Thisdoesn’t work, this is a scam, and I never get what I want” mayhave been your response. And we’ve all been there, looking for aspecific result,…
It’s All in Your Head . . . . really
It’s easy, and common, to blame our feelings and the general state of our lives on other people or on our circumstances, easy and an effective way to avoid taking responsibility for what we’re experiencing.But the truth is that the things that happen to us only have the meaning we give to them. And there…
The Romance of Cooking Together (Thanks to Leslie Wright for these great tips!)
Here are 6 tips for the couple who are cooking together for the first time. 1. Pick a Recipe Together As you are going to work together, you will need to talk about the meal beforehand. So, the first thing you need to do is to decide what you can cook together. Of course, you…
This Is Your Memory On Love
Remember those “your brain on drugs” awareness posters? You can essentially substitute “love” for “drugs” and the same warnings apply. Scientists have found that being in love actually makes you activate some of the same brain regions as when you take addictive drugs, like ecstasy or cocaine. Neuroscientist Kayo Takahashi and his team have described…
Food For Comfort
When my daughter was a baby she developed the habit of sucking her thumb, especially when she was tired or upset. It seemed to make her feel better. Members of my family were worried that she would damage the development of her jaw or that she would continue the behavior for years, and be bullied…
Natural Food; Bringing People Together
Food brings people together. Since the beginning of time, people have come together to share and enjoy food, and to take pleasure in preparing food for those who make up their community and those they love. Food and its preparation have come to represent friendship, comfort, support, love, and even passion. Food tends to be…
Only One Day to Focus on Love – Really?
I appreciate Valentine’s Day, I really do. A whole day with love and romance as its focus – a lovely idea. But what if we had that same focus every day – always remembering the power of love in our lives, the power of love to change things for the better, the remarkable ways people…
Women Everywhere – Join The Conversation. Here’s HOW WE CHANGE THE WORLD!
Dear Friends, I have created a few short conversations that share my process for discovering and utilizing your whole-self power for the betterment of your life and our world. Here’s the first one- it’s only three minutes or so- and will help you begin the journey toward true self, and true living in power and…
JUMP IN…Your Life Is About To Happen on a scale you can’t even imagine…!
I have created a few short conversations that share my process for discovering and utilizing your whole-self power for the betterment of your life and our world. Here’s the second in the series- it’s only five minutes or so and will help you begin the journey toward your true self, and true living in power…
How To Recognize and Harness Your Healing Power
More conversation with Susan Schachterle, best-selling author, women’s empowerment and leadership mentor, and human rights activist – on Women’s innate Healing Power, and how to use it. Okay, so we’ve been talking for a while about the power of the feminine. We’ve known, as women of the modern age, that we have these intuitive gifts…
Looking At The Power We Carry-When We Come Together
The female brain is remarkable! Wired to focus on connection and relationship, we are the ones who can bring healing to conflict, build bridges between individuals, groups, and even governments in conflict. And we are the ones naturally equipped to encourage and support the brilliance and wholeness of others. In this audio post I share…
Responding To the #MeToo Movement..Getting Beyond Your Story and Into Your Innate Power
Listen to what I have learned about the uses of power, about women in victim-hood, and the journey we all take toward discovering our personal power and how to use it wisely. It’s time. It’s time to move beyond our story, let others know it’s not OK to abuse power- in any situation, and learn…
What’s “Meant to be”?
I’ve worked with women all over the world for more than 20 years, focusing on what it takes to turn their dreams into reality, essentially to get what they want in life without greed or arrogance. During that time, many women have asked me to help them give up their dreams, to resign themselves to…
Burning The Candle At Both Ends and Burning Out
Women are born jugglers. We juggle family and career, work and recreation, our own health and caregiving for others, and we do a remarkable job….. until we step over the line between multi-tasking and burnout. Typically, men are wired to focus on one thing at a time until it’s done; women, though, come into life…
Ladies in Waiting – living with our dreams on hold
We were meeting to talk about women and their dreams – what they wanted to be, do,and have. There was a lot of conversation – until I asked when each of these womenwould actively pursue her dream. Things got very quiet, and then, one by one, they began responding. “I’ll do it: When the kids…
What’s Your Meta Dream?
So there’s the dream, that thing you think about, fantasize about, imagine in full color with unlimited possibilities. It may be the thing that keeps you going through situations that are less than fantasy material, but that you may not actually be taking steps toward. You may imagine this dream with thoughts like “It would…
Yeah, you do get to have what you want
Tinogona – a term from the Shona language of Zimbabwe that translates as “yes, your dreams are achievable”. Another way we might express this powerful (and sometimes difficult to believe) truth – “Yeah, you DO get to be/do/have what you want”. The impact of this simple statement is breathtaking – when we choose to trust…
Living the Dream or not
If even one person on the planet has been able to live their dream, it means that living our dream(s) is possible for all of us. Remember tenogona – “yes, your dreams are achievable”? That bit of wisdom doesn’t limit the range of what’s achievable – it doesn’t translate as “yes, for some of you,…
Making better Choices
Or How to Stop Betraying Yourself For instance, the woman who wanted to go back to school to finish her degree so she could have a career doing work she loved, but who didn’t register for classes because her husband and family told her it was a waste of money and an indication that she…
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