More Secrets to Happiness! Last time, we looked at five simple ways that you can stay cheery even when your life looks or feels like rubbish. This month I am sharing another five of my ‘life-saving’ tips! 6. Happy People Love Sharing Surprises So, you had a crappy drive to work and road rage is […]
Continue ReadingThis Time Next Year
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Does this sound familiar? We tend to start the New Year setting Resolutions for the year to come, i.e. I will lose 20 lbs, I will go to the gym, or I will give up smoking. I will start a […]
Continue ReadingGiving and Receiving Guide to Holidays without the Hype!
It’s that time of year again! Thanksgiving was early in Canada and late in the US, so I managed to do both, which was fun. And here we are racing into the Holiday Season with fears of H1N1 flu, monetary recessions and the obligatory ‘never enough time’. With that in mind, I wanted to remind […]
Continue ReadingAug 2009 Finding Your Joy and Strength
(introduction to the Feeling Absolutely Fabulous Program™) Just recently I was making arrangements for a lunch date with my friend Joan. Joan and I sit on the Board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of Ontario and we had some business to work on and some personal “girlfriend” stuff to catch up with. You know how […]
Continue ReadingSchoolofCT Goes Green + Goes to Hollywood!
Everything seems to be going green nowadays, even Hollywood. The Hollywood glamour girls and boys are jumping in on the action. As we become more aware of the benefits of organic food, earth-friendly fashion and even all-natural skin care. And of course, the ever present beauty industry is making its mark on the world by […]
Continue ReadingThe Habit of Happiness
It is a few days into 2009, and already many of us have broken some of our New Year’s Resolutions. Each year, many of us see or feel January as a “new beginning”, a time to make a clean start. So, we decide to go on a diet, go on a cleanse, begin an exercise […]
Continue ReadingSeason’s Blessings
Season’s Blessings! Throughout recorded time it appears that the Autumn and Winter Season has been celebrated with ritual. Ritual is, at its simplest, best described as the habitual performance of some action. At this time of year much of what we consider ritual is believed to have symbolic value, as prescribed by religion or the […]
Continue ReadingChanges Taking Dreams to Belief
Do you believe you can take your dreams to belief? It involves making changes. Here I lay out the steps. Starting with one of the questions I’m often asked. Over the years I’ve often been asked by people how to use their knowledge of or interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). And how to make […]
Continue ReadingLove is in the Air
September is here again and we have to acknowledge that Summer is ‘officially’ over for those of us in the Northern hemisphere. This time of year I usually write something about ‘back to school’ and getting back into the swing of things after a relaxing summer break. It’s interesting to sometimes stop and observe ourselves […]
Continue ReadingA Rose by Any Other Name
Well, I certainly received a lot of feedback from last month’s newsletter, Me First Darling. It seems I’m not alone in feeling this Spring has been a high stress time and some of us needed a reminder to slow down, and even permission to put our own needs first! Along those lines, I have some […]
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