What is your default emotion?  What emotion do you feel most of the time?  Stop and think about it for a minute.  What is your go-to feeling?  When nothing is happening around you, how do you feel? Many people go through life with stress as their default emotion.  Even when they are at rest, they feel stress. …

We can be our own heroes when we just keep moving toward what we want. That sounds simple, but there are days when it can feel heroic just to keep going.  To take the steps to get to our dreams.  When we don’t feel so great about ourselves or our lives, it can feel really…

We may think we know what is best for someone.  We may worry about them.  We may want only good in their lives so deeply that we feel we HAVE to get them on the “right” track.  Sometimes we can act out of desperation – if we are really afraid of the choices they are making in…

Our language can be harsh.  “I HAVE to get up and go to work.”  “I HAVE to take care of the kids.”  “I HAVE to run errands.” The truth is we do not HAVE to do anything.  Yes, there are consequences to doing nothing, but it is a choice.  The truth is that we GET…

We all have a child inside of us.  The child that we once were, the child that we wanted to be.  Some of us are more in touch with our inner child than others, but it is there inside each one of us. Our inner child loves play and movement.  Our inner child craves the…

For every challenge, or obstacle, we think we have – there is a solution.  There cannot be a challenge without a solution.  The two go hand in hand. Sometimes we may not like the solution we come up with, but there is always a solution.  Sometimes the solution may seem as daunting as the challenge. …

Every single morning when we wake up, we can have a completely new and fresh start. We begin our own healing process when we realize that we can do something – we do have choices.  We can start over.  We can come to terms with the past and let it go.  And we can move on….