Soul Words
Each new year’s eve or day, as I reflect on the past year and look forward to what the next may bring, I choose a word to help me focus on the lessons I learned and want to keep close. My 2022 word was EASE, focused on trying not to make things any more complicated…
10 Tips for Authentic Holidays with Less Stress
Whatever holidays you celebrate during November and December, pressure often permeates. For months we are bombarded with images and advertisements that tell us how we should decorate, what we should cook and drink, what we should give, and more. It’s not that I hate this time of year, I just hate the consumerism that has…
The Siren Song of the Status Quo
It’s easy to minimize issues when you are in the middle of them. It just seems too much effort to step forward and try to change things. Even when you feel in your soul you are ready to break out of a pattern and create needed change, the siren song calls you back to your…