Are Your Legs Buckling Under the Pressure?   The weight of the world is on your shoulders and it can be as heavy or as light as you make it.  You broaden your shoulders over and over again to accept more of the world.  Soon your legs start to buckle, and then you smash your knees to the ground.  You ask yourself, well what the hell happened here. It is time to quickly re-evaluate.  The last thing you want or need is to stay on the...

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This is not a pretty story. I woke up crabby and rapidly slid downhill into grumpy. There wasn’t a good reason — or even a bad one. I was just suddenly a short, blondish, Cruella DeVille. I harrumphed at my children, ignored the cat, snarled at my laptop and grinched my way through checking email. Couldn’t shower right away because my daughter wanted to. Grumble … grumble … grumble. Realized I was thirsty and my body wanted lemon...

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Earlier this year while writing my first book proposal, I found myself getting stuck multiple times. I felt stressed, overwhelmed, inadequate- you name it and I probably experienced it. One day, while speaking with my mom, she saw the toll it had been taking on me and mentioned how she wished the process would happen more smoothly for me. I smiled and said it would work out however it was supposed to. In my mind however, I remember half...

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It was just 2 years I started writing publicly about my experience of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.  When diagnosed with multiple sclerosis I was lost, like so many are.  But I soon found that taking control over my own care and lifestyle was critical if I was to become a chronic wellness superhero.  You can read my thoughts about it at that time. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when I spoke to a crowd of 300+ people about my...

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I’m one of those people who never knew what was around the next corner.  I love finding new opportunities with the excitement and challenges they present.  As for goals, my only real life-long goal I can remember is to make enough money to balance my checkbook and enjoy life.  OK, so I won’t be a multi-billionaire with a goal like this, but I’m comfortable with that. So now, I’m middle-aged, college educated, mother of three boys,...

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We are in relationship to everything around us.  The relationship we have with people and with ourselves is vital to our existence.  In these important relationships we strive for balance.  But have you considered the relationship we have to food?  To the substance that nourishes us the most in partnership with air and water? Our society today sends a lot of messages about relationships and what we should be doing to understand, improve or...

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