Five Tips for Change That Sticks

February 25, 2010

Life is rarely a smooth road. The bumps can be difficult to navigate and sometimes throw you off course. Change can feel hard. Whether you are trying to lose weight, change a job, leave a spouse, adjust to an empty nest, whatever your challenge is, it doesn’t have to be that hard.
Here are five tips [...]

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The Love Doctor

February 19, 2010

Call me Doctor Love. I happened upon this new career by accident, as I stumbled through the sometimes daunting, often exciting adventure of dating after divorce. Through my own trial and error of dating, I discovered that I am much better at understanding men the second time around. Whether it’s due to my maturity, self-confidence, [...]

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Wild Things

February 17, 2010

I almost forgot how much I enjoy painting. The sensuality of blending the acrylic paint colors, the wonder of making something from nothing. My eighteen year-old son had been bugging me for months to paint a scene from the book, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. It was one of his favorite [...]

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Do Not Betray Your Soul

February 16, 2010

I first heard the beautiful poem, The Invitation, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, in coaching school. I remember how, four years ago, it touched my heart with a sense of knowing, finding myself deep in its words. I happened upon it again this morning in a compassionate blog post by Ronna Detrick of Renegade Conversations, and [...]

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Is There Such a Thing as Chance?

February 15, 2010

I believe in serendipity. This is a story of how a ceramic tray connected me to an old friend and a new pair of boots. Back in November, a woman contacted me to commission a ceramic tray for a wedding she was attending in February. Due to a series of unfortunate delays that were out [...]

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The Day After

February 11, 2010

I am gazing out my office window at an azure blue sky, offsetting the snow-encrusted trees blowing in the fierce wind. It is the day after. A foot of snow fell in Connecticut yesterday and transformed the city in a sheet of white. Home-bound with my kids, the day was a throwback to a time [...]

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Seize the Day

February 9, 2010

My family had sunk to an all time low. Each of us sitting around my house, typing away on our personal laptops, some even in the same room, none of us interacting with each other. My 15 year-old was on a school vacation, the other two just hanging out, and I could feel us turning [...]

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What Matters More: Your Family or Your Work?

February 8, 2010

The temperature yesterday was in the mid-teens, and the brisk walk from my car, parked in the seventies, to Columbus Circle in the fifties, brought color to my cheeks, the air visible in small puffs as my friend and I reunited for the beginning of a three-hour dynamic conversation. This friend and I met over [...]

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Something Lost, Something Gained

February 3, 2010

I frantically searched for my wedding ring. I looked everywhere. Was it in my pocket? On the counter by the kitchen sink? Did I put it on my nightstand before going to bed? It was in none of the logical places, and eventually, I gave up the search. My wedding ring was lost and I [...]

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The Importance of Faith

January 29, 2010

I just came from my Rabbi’s Friday morning Torah class on the portion of the week, “Beshalach”, in the book of Exodus. At the end of the portion, we read about Amalek, the force of evil that comes in every generation. Amalek shows up right after the Jews have left Egypt. After a 40 years [...]

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