BlogLife Lessons from a Blueberry Bush
Forest Gump's mama once said that "Life is like a box of chocolates". Last week we visited my brother-in-law Brent's home. As my 2 year-old granddaughter, Luna, sat on my…
BlogSomething Beautiful This Way Comes
By Stephen Simon. While I was waiting in line at the post office, a wonderful gentleman and I exchanged "Good mornings" to each other. When I asked him how he…
BrilliancePrioritizing Relationships in This Unpredictable World
Many blessings in life are sadly taken for granted. You will never understand how precious life is until you face a life-threatening disease. I discovered this after being diagnosed with…
BrillianceWhat I’ve Learned in Life
I have learned that the most important things in life are free. That as long as I never forget that my spiritual life comes before my material life, I will…
BrillianceTake Back Your Inner Freedom
As a psychotherapist and wellness speaker for 35 years, I have been fortunate to have learned many lessons about life from the many people who have shared their innermost thoughts…
Brilliance10 Pithy Tips for Empowered Living
I would share these ten tips. 1. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and finding your balance is…
BrillianceA Caring Future Is In Your Hands
It is hard to put a lifetime of experience into so few words. There are so many angles to look at it from and most lessons come from the past.…
Brilliance8 Tips For Living a Fulfilled Life
1) My father, disabled and unable to work, always told me, "Anger will get you nothing. What you have to do is turn around the person who is doing an…
Brilliance15 Tips for Creating The Life You Want
Goethe famously wrote "One lives in this world but once..." If that is the case, ask yourself, "What do I want my life to look like?" Then make it look…
BrillianceFrom Tragedy To Transformation
I have experienced a life-changing event that almost killed me. I would like to share some lessons I have learned that continue to guide me on my journey through life.…
BrillianceThings I Know To Be True
I would share the things I know to be true. Any 'negative' circumstances of your birth are just the backdrop setting the stage for the inspirational ending to your life…
BrillianceLife Secrets of the Butterfly, as told to her young
Fear and love feel the same when first you feel them. Fear is like moving from a flame, Love is like flying into it. Love will make you do things…
Brilliance19 Principles to Strive For
1. Happiness and fulfillment come from getting the results you want - whether it's developing personal relationships or changing the world. The path is seldom easy, but the formula for…
Brilliance10 Quick Tips for Living an Inspired Life
"Can you believe in something simply because it matters to you? Then act on it to prove you really do." These are my 10 quick tips for living an inspired…
Brilliance7 Life Lessons To Light Your Path
The things I know for sure at this point are deceptively simple in mere words, but they are as follows: As you evolve, your world evolves - it all starts…
BrillianceThe Best Lessons I Have Learned In My Life
I have learned that life is truly a gift I have learned how important it is to be specific about what you wanted because if you are not, something else…
Brilliance15 Simple Lessons for Creating the Future You Want
1. Be yourself. 100% authentically you. YOU matter, YOU make a difference. 2. Watch the movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Watch it twice... with loved ones. Tell…
Brilliance9 Lessons for A Happy Life
I would offer my 9 steps to a happy life.... 1. Build something that you believe in - a relationship, a family, a company or a project. Focus on what…
BrillianceGetting Over That Bump in the Road
Remove from your head everything you've ever been told you are or are not. You probably know yourself better than anyone else does anyway. Nothing that anyone else says you…
Brilliance50 Lessons In Life
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Don't…
BlogFrom Living Hell to Living Well
We’ve all been there – a place that feels like hell on earth. And we ask ourselves the same question over and over: “Why me?” Have you ever stopped to…
BrillianceThe Importance of Asking Questions
We spend so much of our lives seeking answers to others’ questions and to the Big Questions: Who are we? Why do we exist? Why do we die? What happens…
BlogIs the Universe Sending You a Wakeup Call?
Sometimes we think we want something—but when it arrives for us, we realize that we never wanted it at all. We just thought we did. As if there’s this gap…
BlogAre Those Heavy Burdens Actually A Gift?
Nature always teaches us lessons, if we just pay attention. Today, my husband and I went for a snowshoe hike by our home in Glacier National Park, with Koda (our…
BrillianceLife CAN Be Great – It’s a Choice!
Love with your heart, not your eyes. Pick your battles wisely. Never, ever give up: you might miss the miracle! Believe in miracles. There is beauty everywhere; open your eyes…
BrillianceFinding the Good Even When Things Get Bad
Learn to love yourself. Once you love you, it opens you up to all different types of experiences in this world. Whatever you focus on is what you get, so…
BrillianceWhat To Remember As You Journey Through Life
Everybody has a past. What makes yours different from everyone else’s is that you actually lived and survived yours. Your life shoes were fitted for you and not for anyone…
BrillianceChange is Our Birthright
Don’t hold anyone to who they used to be, especially yourself. Evolution is all of our birthright. Embrace who you are becoming, as an individual, as a friend, a lover,…
BrillianceWhat I Wish My Mother Had Told Me About Life and Men
We gravitate towards what we contemplate, so believe the best about everyone. Constantly extend grace, kindness and forgiveness to all mankind. Until we know who we are and why we…
BlogFather is the First Teacher
My bathing cap is too tight; it doesn’t hold the cascade of hair that someone’s piled on my head in order to squash it on, pull it tight until it…
Brilliance14 Lessons on Life, Love, Career and Pursuit of Personal Fulfillment
Life isn’t searching for perfection Life is perfection in itself. Awareness, truth and introspection Are keys to learning that yourself. ***** Any profession that you choose Can make you rich…
BrillianceYour Spiritual GPS – Soul Writing
Imagine that earth is actually a school, a place where spiritual beings come to experience all there is to learn about life in a physical body. Your life is part…
BrillianceAwaken Your Inner Possibility
Walk softly upon the earth knowing that truth can only be experienced in silence. In soulful spaciousness, questions are answered, and possibility unfolds. See divinity in all that you meet,…