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What Motivates You to Get Out of Bed?

Why did you get up today? Was it because you had to, or because you wanted to? Did you drag yourself begrudgingly from your cozy nest, at the last possible minute — again? Or did you fling the covers off, plant your feet solidly on the floor, and spring up to greet the day? Did […]

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Dog Bucket Debacle

I  had assumed that in learning to step off of the hamster wheel in my head, life would have more calm and ease. That moving through life more mindfully means that stupid stuff doesn’t happen anymore. Nope. Not true. Case in point: I calmly and easily backed our rig over a 5-gallon bucket of dog […]

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Word Becomes Flesh

I love words. They’re concise energy, personalized. The physical translation can feel like a wild strawberry on the tongue, lush fur rippling between fingers, full-body hums attuning to a singing bowl. Or, the translation can feel like a fish bone jabbing into gums, warm dog poo squishing between bare toes, a too-close thunderclap reverberating from […]

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Life Is A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Story. Here’s How to Write It.

You get to make life the way you want it to be. We all do. In fact, we already write our own life stories, whether it’s by conscious choice or by unconscious default. Not sure that’s exactly true? Consider today a new chapter in a book that’s just morphed into a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type of story. […]

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Looking For A Reset Button? Try This.

Sometimes Life can throw us off of our groove. It could be that we are flooded with busy-ness, like when there’s four family gatherings to attend over the two-day holidays. Other times we are focused on a culminating event, such as a graduation party or the selling of a house. Maybe there’s no event occurring […]

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