Don’t ever forget these two words: You Matter! Someone is drinking coffee from a cup you gave them. Someone walked by their fridge smiled as they saw your photograph. Someone saw a car like yours and smiled. Someone is wearing a scarf today that you gave them. Someone is chuckling over your post on social …
I fell in love with a few pages of the book that I found on social media and started sharing them while I waited for my copy of “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” to arrive. I’ve shared the pages at seven treatment groups in three days. I’ve shared the images on …
Just a quick question for your Monday: Here’s hoping there are more smiles on your way! Remembering and revisiting those things that used to make us smile can be #GoodMedicine. So, consider dusting off your paint brushes, canoe paddles, dancing shoes, or any other smile-makers that may be stashed in your closet or basement, and …
Yes, we shall, or at very least we should! I know that I’m supposed to dance today. When I opened my yogurt container, inside the lid was printed “Dance in the mirror.” Now, I’m not saying that I always listen to my food or my food containers, but that advice sounded sage to me. So the next …
Can you take a moment with you? We’ve all experienced a moment that was deeply pleasing, deeply calming – a moment when we felt as though “all is well in the world.” Feelings like that may only last a moment before the busyness of a day intrudes and pulls us out of that beautiful moment. …
I love this lesser known painting by Vincent van Gogh and I thought it might go well with a quote that is also attributed to him. “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.” -Vincent van Gogh It seems like an appropriate reminder to someone …
There’s much that I love about this time of year and in particular, this weekend. Yes, an “extra hour” sounds like such a gift (even if it’s just the same hour we gave up earlier this year.) And even if this “extra hour” isn’t really free time, the idea having more time certainly appeals to us …
Today, I’m changing the ring tone on my mobile to a song that will amuse me. I’m investing a minute of my morning to click on a couple keys and change the sound my phone makes when someone calls me. Who cares? Me. I care and I know (from my past experience) that even if …
Have you ever wondered why we tend to dwell on the negative possibilities? I should say, perhaps YOU don’t, but most of us do. Do you know why we think that way? Research suggests that there may well have been a benefit to having a negative world view in humankind’s past. Imagine two “cavepeeps” a …
Happiness Some unhappiness is caused by real loss, and such unhappiness tends to become more bearable as time passes. If you feel unhappiness of this sort today, my hope is that you will find solace as time passes. There is another type of unhappiness or distress which is caused by aspects of our lives being …
Share Your Gratitude Today An attitude of gratitude MIGHT be contagious! So let’s make it our goal today to summon up our gratitude and THEN spread it around. If we take a look around us I suspect we can find things for which we are grateful. And I know that if we look around we …
It’s a #DoubleDogDare, so you really don’t have a choice, do you? 😉 Today, before the sun goes down, your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to express gratitude for no less than three new things. By “new” things, I mean that if every day you say a prayer of gratitude for your …
Do Good, Feel Good “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion.” -Abraham Lincoln So… we #DoubleDogDare you to go do an anonymous good deed and see how you feel! It’s really a “win-win,” isn’t it?! You bless someone and you get to feel better, …
When we voluntarily let go of a familiar (but lethal) coping tool, we can experience emotional discomfort. But it gets better with time. In order to let go of that coping skill we may need to (at least temporarily) withdraw from certain social settings. Some of the old “places and faces” can be really strong …
