I have been reflecting recently on unexpected rewards from tough circumstances. I was reminded of a traumatic event in our life several years ago that resulted in a rather funny response from my daugh

Albert Einstein said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Living as if everything is a miracle feels like a b

Grief is messy!!! Wow! So messy and confusing, lonely and exhausting and all the things. In this episode, we talk about relaxing into all of it to work with our emotion instead of against it. Because

Why do we sometimes feel motivated and other times we don’t even when we want to be? This week I learned more about the Expectancy Theory of Motivation and I noticed how that was playing out in my lif

If you’re like me and most people, there comes a time in your grief and healing that you start to recognize patterns that haven’t been healthy. It’s so normal to depend on unhealthy patterns to take t

We experience natural limits every day. You can’t pour more milk in the bowl than is in the jug of milk. You can’t withdraw more from the bank than you have deposited in the bank. You can’t work more

Remember when emotional intelligence was all the rage? Emotional intelligence is defined as “the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage and handle emotions.” But what does that mean? In this epi

Judgment is hard. It feels yucky and knocks you off balance. The grief you’re feeling already causes you to feel vulnerable, exposed and raw. The last thing you need is judgment from those that you ho

The most important thing we can do to change our experience is to change the way we think. For years, I thought that my thoughts and feelings just were what they were and there was nothing I could do

We all know what it’s like to be ill and recover. Everyone has had a flu or a bug of some kind in their life and gotten better. The process we go through in recovering from a physical illness is ... R