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Self-Care: Lift-Off from a Bad Mood?

September 20, 2018 2 Comments

I was in a doozy of a bad mood earlier in the week. It started with a couple of nights of poor sleep; that is “Self-Care: Lift-Off from a Bad Mood?”

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#547 – Your Beautiful Heart

February 14, 2018 5 Comments

Under stress, your heart rhythm shows up as a jagged line – the two branches of your autonomic nervous system (ANS) are speeding up and “#547 – Your Beautiful Heart”

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Escape From Technology to Manage Your Chronic Illness

January 23, 2018 1 Comment

Technology is great when it works. When it doesn’t, a lot of time is spent (wasted) fixing the problem. Whether you do it yourself or “Escape From Technology to Manage Your Chronic Illness”

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Helping vs Enabling

July 24, 2017 1 Comment

There’s a fine line between helping and enabling. Learning to discern the difference can have a huge impact upon the abilities and sensibilities of the “Helping vs Enabling”

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Optimism – For the Health of It

June 17, 2017 4 Comments

Optimism is a good skill to cultivate, especially if you’re interested in doing what you can to improve your health in a number of areas. “Optimism – For the Health of It”

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Cultivate Self-Care

March 23, 2017 3 Comments

“Self-Care is what people do for themselves to establish and maintain health and to prevent and deal with illness. It is a broad concept encompassing “Cultivate Self-Care”

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The Language of Stress

March 2, 2017 4 Comments

When you are stressed, the language you use and how you use it, changes. Pay attention to the words, the structure, the intonation, the tonality “The Language of Stress”

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The Observation Deck: How to Be in the Moment

September 27, 2016 8 Comments

Two upward glances, one last evening, and one very early this morning, almost brought me to tears. The sun was just setting as I pulled “The Observation Deck: How to Be in the Moment”

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Awareness in Practice: Fixing

February 16, 2016 2 Comments

In Awareness in Practice – Part 1, I recounted how I recalibrated myself before settling in to have an enriching catch-up conversation with my friend. “Awareness in Practice: Fixing”

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Awareness in Practice: Part 1

January 19, 2016 No Comments

The beauty of the techniques I teach is that you can regularly practice them as you go about the business of your day. They are “Awareness in Practice: Part 1”

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Nourishing Nature and a Fortifying Friendship

August 27, 2015 No Comments

Nature and friendships – each are powerful in their own right, but when combined, it seems that they change into something resembling kryptonite. An email “Nourishing Nature and a Fortifying Friendship”

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Health Advice

June 30, 2015 5 Comments

I think this health advice still stands, all these years later, don’t you?  

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