In the book, The Power of Showing Up, Tina Bryson, PhD and Dan Siegel, M.D. offer simple and clear mindful guidance for parents which is timely advice. Children need to feel safe, be seen, soothed and ultimately leads to the fourth quality of feeling secure. These 4S's  give us a nice framework for focusing on [...]

Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?     Especially in times of stress we may feel more reactionary than we would like. These simple questions keep us focused on maintaining a mindful approach to others regardless of the situation. Our words matter. Is it true? Or are we seeing the situation through [...]

Do you see a brighter future or a dismal future? What do you see on the other side of this pandemic and social injustice? Do you see more kindness, caring, love, compassion, connection or destruction, anger, pain and suffering? Which will you demonstrate?  The future is fiction until it arrives. You can make a difference. Not [...]

Fear has more than enough fuel at the moment. Lives are being threatened on many levels, yet we know we are blessed and we are exceptionally aware of those blessings during this time. We are either swirling in our emotions or cutting ourselves off from them, feeling it all physically in our bodies. The undercurrent [...]

Adopting an empowering perspective helps you endure. Please accept this article and all my future articles in the spirit they are intended, to help you develop the most empowered approach to life to live your best life. These are unprecedented times that are predicted to get worse. I have a deep belief that what we [...]

  "You may not control all of the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." ~ Maya Angelou  During this pandemic we are assessing what needs to be done, learning about the virus, and caring for one another. Through communication, logistics, and science, we have been set [...]