Mind & Spirit

Take an honest look at your intimate relationship. Is it missing passion, alignment, engagement, or support? Does your relationship feel like it's missing that electric energy, which was there in your first months or first years together? Are you settling for boring and disconnected, believing that this is how all relationships end up? Even worse,…

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  Are you struggling with a health or personal issue that's getting in your way? Have you been told by your doctors that there's nothing that can be done? What if I told you that the solution is there, but it's stored in your subconscious mind? (more…)

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Walking to the doctors’ office that day with her 12 year old daughter by her side, Belinda thought it would be the same old thing.   She needed to improve her diet, get more active, yeah, yeah, yeah.  There was no point really.  She had seen her mother spend most of her life dieting, and…

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Of the many uncertainties that tragedy leaves us with, I know one thing is true: we must be warriors in our daily lives. In the wake of Boston bombings, just a few short months post-Newtown, we feel vulnerable, confused, angry and raw. Why is this happening? What's wrong with this overcrowded, stressed, and unpredictable world?…

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Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on treating chronic diseases. The costs of preventing illness are much less than the cost of maintaining one.  The burden of chronic disease is enormous on our finances, time, energy, emotion, and relationships is enormous. Sadly, one in two of us will become the lucky winners of at…

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Are you trying to make lifestyle changes but you keep falling back to old habits and old patterns, ending up feeling overwhelmed and frustrated? The secret to changing habits, reaching goals, releasing stress, creating abundance and flourishing relationships is understanding the power of your subconscious mind! When you understand the laws that your mind operates on,…

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We’re told that we are supposed to love ourselves, but no one teaches us how to do it. (Listen to Maria's guest interview with me here.) Loving your self is a state of being. Who teaches us how to practice self-care? (more…)

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A few days ago, multiple snags attacked my beautifully cast fishing lines. Debris seemed like the only thing interested in accomplishing my week’s goals. Maybe it was the cold-grey rains of Seattle, or the weight of deadlines combined with endless project flops. Computer work can engender such feelings, especially when you've been glued to the…

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When I work at my long-term care facility, I take lunch around 12:30 pm. Most days, I see Florence (not her real name) in the cafeteria. Florence eats alone. She is too shy to reach out to other diners sitting near her. Sometimes she buries herself in a book. Other times, she watches groups interacting…

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"Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.” (Brené Brown) It's not every day that I find a TED talk so compelling that I would take notes and then write a blog post about it. In her talk about The Power of Vulnerability (Ted Talk), speaker Brene Brown shed light on two very dark and uncomfortable…

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