Thank you to Dr. Margaret Paul for this insightful and helpful message: Emotional dependency means getting one’s good feelings from outside oneself. It means needing to get filled from outside rather than from within. Who or what do you believe is responsible for your emotional well-being? There are numerous forms of emotional dependency: Dependence on [...]

5 steps to a more positive attitude in life. Irving Berlin is quoted as saying: “Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.” How do you “take” your life? Do you celebrate it and value it, or do you spend your life in worry, uncertainty, fear, burdened etc? We all [...]

Valentine’s Day is a hard day for anyone not in a relationship, and it causes more stress, anxiety and depression than almost any other ‘holiday’ for everyone, in or out of relationships. It is a day that begs for acknowledgment of love, passion, connectedness and for validation of whatever your hopes, dreams fantasies are about [...]

As we continue down the road of becoming more aware of our intrinsic value and worth, there are new attitudes and behaviors that will begin to emerge. You may recognize that you really do have strong feelings or opinions about things; you may recognize that you feel more capable and more positively about yourself. You [...]

Last week’s teleseminar on Gratitude was a huge success.  We’ve had many responses to the program with people asking for more thoughts and ideas on bringing gratitude into their lives.  I was fortunate to receive the following message from Paula Gregorowicz in my inbox just the other day, and with Paula’s permission, I am reprinting it [...]

What does it mean to be grateful?  What does gratitude feel like?  How do you connect the word grateful to a feeling, and even a state of being? Gratitude is a hot topic, especially when stress levels are so high.  We’re told to feel grateful for small things, for the love we have in our [...]

Every day is a new beginning, if we allow it. Every morning we have an opportunity to start fresh. How do you want to start your day? What attitude or intention do you choose to bring to each day? If you wake and tell yourself that it will be just another day, then that is [...]

There are so many things to do in any given day.  Lists seem to grow by themselves overnight.  Most people walk around overwhelmed, stressed, and resentful of the many things they are responsible for in their lives.  People wonder when life got so complicated, and where all the joy went.  Many people feel that there [...]

The purpose of this message is to bring to you something that you can utilize throughout each day so that your thoughts, your energy and ultimately, your feelings about yourself become more positive, and your life will reflect these changes. My first book, Being Well Within, was all about guiding you through the curves of [...]

I have heard from many people regarding how hard it is to feel good about their work on improving their self-esteem, living empowered, de-stressing their lives, when the work seems to take so long and improvements seem so small. It is a very common belief that one can only get credit for something only after [...]