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Embrace Intuitive Eating: Nourishing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

What is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive eating is a practice that encourages you to listen to your body’s signals, helping you make choices that truly support your well-being on all levels—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Rather than adhering to external rules or diets, intuitive...

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The Strength Within: How to Cultivate Resilience and Thrive

Resilience, a transformative human attribute, is adapting and thriving amidst adversity. The American Psychological Association defines resilience as “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences,” resilience encompasses mental,...

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Peace

Wishing you peace during these troubling times.

Along with so many Americans, I am riding waves of emotions as the events in our country unfold.  I am inspired by acts of courage and angered by acts that deny human rights.  I am troubled by the suffering, fear, doubt, and confusion,...

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Minding Your Business and Busyness

Are your decisions based on urgent demands for your immediate attention?
Do you find that your intuition is speaking but you’re not listening?
Do professional demands overshadow your personal well-being?

5 Guiding Statements to Help You Mind Your Business and Busyness

Guiding Statement #1
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How to Be More Productive Today

Do you struggle with productivity? Are you always striving to get your task list accomplished but end up constantly moving tasks to the next day? If this describes you, here are a few tips for making your day more productive.

Create a To-Do List the Night Before

Instead of waking up in the...

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How Well Do You Maintain Balance?

If trying to maintain balance in your life makes you feel like a tightrope walker, you’re not alone. Most of us have so many demands on our time and energy that life can feel like a three-ring circus. Take this quiz to see how well you are meeting responsibilities, while also recognizing...

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The Importance of Idle Time in a Fast-Forward World

Claiming the Empty Spaces
The Importance of Idle Time in a Fast-Forward World

“What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.”

—W. H. Davies

You’re just about to leave for your dentist appointment when you receive a phone call saying the dentist has...

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Full Speed Ahead with Positive Thinking

Full Speed Ahead with “Yes, and” Thinking

Nothing zaps a great idea faster than “Yes, but….” You might as well say “No.”

It’s not just about semantics. In fact, “Yes, but” may be the No. 1 phrase for killing personal hope, putting...

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Self-Quiz: Are You “Too Busy?”

Time is the great equalizer. Everybody gets the same amount: 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour. We can’t save time or accumulate or rearrange it. We can’t turn it off or on. It can’t be replaced.

But these days, it seems as if the lament of not having enough time has...

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The Solopreneur’s Guide to Giving Great Presentations

There is no more effective marketing than powerfully delivering your own message to a rapt crowd.

And yet far too many solopreneurs shy away from presentation opportunities due to a fear of public speaking, a fear of putting themselves “out there” before an audience of...

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The Importance of Play in Our Lives

If it feels like you have less leisure time and fewer unstructured “play” hours in your life, you’re not alone. Consider these statistics:

  • The average married couple works 26 percent longer each year than similar working couples did thirty years ago.
  • Leisure time among children...
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Top 10 Year-End Review Questions

As the year speeds to its end, we begin to mentally prepare for next year. But don’t forget to take time to assess your personal and professional challenges and accomplishments THIS year. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

  1. What have I accomplished this year? Be specific. Write...
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