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April 26, 2019
What’s Holding You Back?
We all have dreams. Dreams of what we’d like to do in the future. Things we want to achieve in the next ten years, twenty years, or once we retire. Things that we add to the ‘Bucket List.’ Dreams that put a smile on our face when we dare to let our minds drift for...
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April 10, 2019
From the Shadows
Last night I was sitting on the sofa catching up with some emails. Ger was out of town, and the dogs were already sleeping soundly in the basement. The house was quiet, the only light emanating from a table lamp and the soft hazy blue of my laptop. Then I saw it. Out of the...
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April 7, 2019
6 Ways to Battle Negativity Bias
What is Negativity Bias and How to Change it! Negativity bias is a condition by which humans are predisposed to pay more attention to bad or negative experiences than to good ones. It’s the main reason why we tend to remember every insult we’ve ever received or can recall every ‘bad’ experience we have encountered. Negative...
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March 4, 2019
The 5 Minute Remedy for Daily Stress
We live in stressful times. Many of us are juggling so many responsibilities that we can easily feel overwhelmed—and where there’s overwhelm—we can be sure that stress will not be far behind. Most of the time we’re not aware we’re holding on to stress. We spend so much time in our heads that we...
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February 26, 2019
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo Description: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is the bestselling book by professional organizer, Marie Kondo. Her ‘KonMari’ method of decluttering has become world renown and has recently become a series on Netflix. It a world of consumerism, Marie Kondo offers a new way of...
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February 18, 2019
Are You Taking Passive Action or Massive Action?
Where are you and where do you want to be? Anyone who has taken on the enormous task of writing a book knows that it takes every ounce of yourself (at least that was my experience.) Perhaps it depends on the subject matter, but the story I chose to tell was deeply personal. It became...
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February 15, 2019
Happiness: A Memoir
The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham Description: Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After is the story of one woman’s journey through an unexpected pregnancy, navigating difficult relationships, and the struggle of parenting a sick child. Review: I was drawn to this book by its title, “Happiness,” but quickly realized that...
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February 11, 2019
How to Chase Away the Winter Blues!
For many people, Winter can be a difficult time of year. The cold days and long nights can take its toll, and a sense of sadness and melancholy can slowly and silently seep in. You may not see it at first. You may not notice until it has wrapped its arms around you and is...
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February 6, 2019
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris Description: The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, imprisoned in the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discovered he spoke several languages, he was forced to work as a tattooist, a job that permanently tattoed numbers on his fellow prisoners. During the...
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February 1, 2019
The Journey to an Anxiety-Free Life-Part Two
How our Thoughts are Responsible for Creating our Emotions. It is estimated that humans are capable of 10,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day. This estimate may seem difficult to comprehend (unless you’re like many of us and you’re an over-thinker.) The majority of these thoughts stay in our sub-conscious mind, so we are not fully...
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