Passionate Living Newsletter
…for those who dare to live the fullest life possible!
Gratitude
As I was pondering the power of Gratitude to open our hearts and how desperately we need our hearts open in love and inclusiveness… now more than ever…I came across this quote that says it all…"If the only prayer you say in your life is “thank you” that would...
Jessica’s Story of Getting Unstuck
Some time ago, I worked with a Woman named Jessica*. Jessica found herself in a familiar pattern of stuckness. She told me, “I feel ready, I feel an inner push. I know what needs to be done and the time feels right.” Jessica felt excited and anxious as she chose the...
A Powerful Start to Understand and Heal Emotional Eating
Emotional Eating is not about food or physical hunger. It is about using food to avoid feeling bad or to feed a feeling that something is missing. I’m currently developing a course to help Women to break the cycle of emotional eating. Today, I stress the importance of...
Your Presence (Presents) Here Does Make a Difference. Be Bold! Step up and be Counted!
Woman to Woman As I launch a beautiful, bold new banner…Woman to Woman… I want you to absorb the message intended… “your presence here matters.” With this rollout my commitment to you with every fiber of my being is to share with you many of the tried-and-true ways to...
What do You Really Want/Need in a Partner?
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As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I’ve had a front row seat, observing ways women sabotage themselves when it comes to having more of what they want/need in intimate relationships.
It may surprise you but often women spend more time planning the details of vacation time, or Christmas dinner than reflecting on what they really want in an intimate relationship…Forget about the picture that we are given by Madison Avenue, or romance novels in the attempt to sell us illusions.
You have more power to choose a solid and loving relationship than you realize…
Will You Betray Another to be Faithful to Yourself?
It is easy to see betrayal when a family member or friend ignores what is in their best interest. You can clearly see when they put their creativity on the back burner, to not make waves, to not threaten a partner or create anxiety in themselves or the family.
Seeing the truth of what others are doing to themselves…that my friends is awareness. Why is it easier to see other’s denial but in ourselves not so much?
We are ill-prepared to witness betrayals of self…
“I just want it back… to the way it was!”
How many times during this crisis have you heard some version of the above? I’ve had clients raw with grief or despair make this statement with every fiber of their being, wanting somehow to get back to the before crisis state. No matter what this statement is about;...
A New Year, a New beginning…Where to start?
I am starting with a new title for my Newsletter. My Passionate Living Newsletter from now on will be titled “Woman to Woman”. Men are welcome of course but over the last few years my passion and focus has been more and more turning to ways I can be of help to women....
Love is all around
“We accept the love we think we deserve”― Stephen Chbosky Do you believe that you are truly lovable? Do you believe that you are deserving of the love you dream about? Do you allow love in? Do you believe there is enough love to go around? Do you believe that there is...
Healing from Loss of Love
Passivity does not help, denial does not heal. "Give sorrow words: The grief that does not speak whispers the oe’r fraught heart, and bids it break." (Shakespeare, 1892) A major loss of love that does not get respected enough in our society is divorce. Some people...
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