Suzanne Falter's Blog, page 31
December 12, 2013
Is Your Hot Flash Trying to Tell You Something?
This just in … your body is like a radio, connecting your heart, your soul and your mind. So those hot flashes you get? They have a message for you. For me, they come in waves around stressful thoughts and feelings. I can be walking along feeling perfectly fine, when suddenly I’m overcome with the […]
December 11, 2013
How to Avoid Attracting Bullies
Got a tender heart? I do. And for some interesting reasons, the Universe has put many bullies in my path over my 55 years. So what’s a girl to do? Bullies have shown up in all areas of my life – from school to work to love. Bullies even lurked in some of the places […]
December 5, 2013
Do You Christmas Shop From Shame?
If you have ever purchased a gift for someone out of a grudging sense that you have to … please stop and read this. Christmas shopping is tricky, right? There are people you love to buy gifts for – gleeful three-year-olds, and friends who really stand by you. Then there are the people you ‘have’ […]
December 4, 2013
December 2, 2013
The Value of a Good Breakdown
This is for everyone who’s ever fallen apart … and had to put the crumpled pieces back together. What if every anguished cry from your heart was actually a cause for celebration? Once again you can hear yourself think. Once more you slow down enough to become conscious. Once more you get rocked in the […]
November 30, 2013
PARIS JOURNAL 4: The World According to Parisians
After a month in Paris, I have now come to expect the following: Bakeries will have desserts designed by God, crystal chandeliers, and possibly domed ceilings festooned with angels. We always address people formally, as in ‘May I ask a question, Madame?’ Everyone – from cabbies to colleagues to the lady who cleans the apartment […]
November 21, 2013
How to Find the Love of Your Life
This is for everyone who wonders if there is such a thing as true love; who spends night after night either alone or in the wrong relationship, wondering … why is love so hard? True love can be found. It really can. My friend – let’s call her Kathy – has found the man of […]
November 18, 2013
PARIS JOURNAL 2: Les Hommes, l’Amour, Les Scooters
I am now officially into Week 3 of my Paris stay. My rhythm now is to work from 8 or 9 until about 3 or so. Then I sit down with my Paris arrondissement guide, map my route and set off for a new quartier every day. The walking is exhilarating in the crisp fall-winter […]
November 15, 2013
How to Be Alone … Even On Your Birthday
This week I celebrated my 55th birthday, and it was actually one of my happiest ever. Why? Because perhaps for the first time in my life, I am truly able to celebrate me. Without any big accomplishments. No ‘extraordinary cause for celebration’. No bells and whistles. On my birthday I gave a party for moi. […]
November 9, 2013
PARIS JOURNAL 1: Sticker Shock and the Bliss of Wandering
It is the end of my first week of my experiment of living in Paris. My goal, since the age of 18, has been to live for two to three months a year in this city … the city I’ve always felt deepest in my heart. Can I really LIVE here … like a Parisian? […]
