Wellness Wisdom

Every Monday morning at 9am MDT I host an online book club. 

We are currently studying and discussing "The High 5 Habit" by Mel Robbins.

This week I incorporated Mel's practice of high-fiving my hea...

Today feels like a dumb day.

Lots of emotion and I'm not sure exactly why.

Where did my calm Zen self go?

I'm making mistakes all over the place and feeling all the feels that come with that.

Frus...

The beginning of this week I came down with some kind of cold/virus.

At first I thought it was allergies because it started right after I'd helped my son bag fall leaves.

It hit fast and got worse r...

The longest distance you will ever travel is from your head to your heart.⁠

⁠What does this even mean?⁠

⁠Understanding something logically is not the same as applying it. ⁠

⁠Both the head and the h...

"Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love oth...

Ever feel stuck and can’t figure out how to get moving again?

Have you ever tried to get in a better mood, and it didn’t work?

Do you have multiple thoughts swimming around in your head doing battle...

I believe our thoughts create our feelings most of the time.⁠
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Our feelings produce our actions and inactions. ⁠
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For example, when I’m feeling frustration I might raise my voice (action)⁠
or walk away a...

When I was a little girl, my mom taught me to tie my shoes.

My shoelaces often came untied.

I didn't know why.

Perplexed, I just kept retying them.

Many years later, when I was in my early 40's, a...

My son had a pet parakeet named Chuck.

Once Chuck started laying little Cadbury-looking eggs, we changed her name to Chuckette.

In my opinion, she deserved more care and attention than she was getti...

I used to be addicted to cigarette smoking.

There was this love/hate relationship I had with smoking and myself.

It’s like there were two parts of me constantly at war.

The two parts battling were ...