My intention with last month’s blog was to lay the foundation and open your mind to the concept of nurturing your natural antidepressants and to the power that lies within you to alleviate your very own suffering. At the end of the blog I went so far as to challenge...

As much as I am convinced of my calling as author, speaker, and coach, I too believe wholeheartedly in my roles as teacher and mental health advocate. Anyone who knows me well enough has heard me speak of my deep desire to transform the educational system and to shift...

A nugget of wisdom I would love to share: You don’t find your calling or your purpose in life; it finds you. Your calling unfolds and emerges over time. However, what it does require is a path to find you—to meet you where you are. And how do you create that path? I...

For years now, as an author, speaker, and life coach, I’ve been studying the mind and the brain—and what I have discovered is that they are all-powerful and utterly fascinating. What I have also discovered is that people don’t know much about either. We understand the...

This past week was the culmination of my New Science of Happiness six-week interactive workshop and what a gift this workshop has been for me. I was given the opportunity to teach and learn from eight phenomenal women—at last, my “ultimate classroom.” n 1992 I...

Buddha said, “Your worst enemy cannot harm you, as much as your own thought…unguarded.” Given my current understanding of the power of the mind, I could not agree more with this phrase. What I am going to do is to expand upon this concept and relate it to an “ego...

Have you ever loved a phrase enough to want to use it, surround yourself with it, and try to live by it? Being that I am an avid reader and writer, I often annotate text and highlight my favorite words and concepts. They frequently inspire new poems and workshops....

In the middle of my poem entitled Chasing Time I write: We overschedule our children, and work ourselves into the ground, and this becomes our badge of honor that we so proudly carry around. It ‘s our default mode, to chase time, for we know no other way. It's even...

No matter what chapter you are currently in, the story of your life continues to unfold with you as the main character. The question you have to ask yourself is this: Are you co-creating your script in the best way possible, in order for you—the hero of your story—to...