Shall We Ask For It?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we know when we need to change. Most often it seems to be in times of stress, when we’ve hit a wall, so to speak, and what we normally do in response to life just isn’t working anymore.  It may be a crisis in...

Those Validating Questions

Someone is talking.  They are trying to think something through. They are trying to figure out what they will do next. You know that your role is to listen; to understand by giving your full attention; to pay attention to how they feel and to imagine their point of...

Framed

How are your validating skills and efforts panning out thus far? I hope you are willing to take baby steps and to celebrate each little success you experience- which means you will have to wear your mental “looking for success lens” in order to see them!...

Healthy Habits

Recently, I was asked what healthy habits I consider to be most important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It’s a great question and  has given me a lot of food for thought! First, I would have to say the tools that help me to keep my mindbody in a positive...
Sweet Smoothie Idea

Sweet Smoothie Idea

I’ve been experimenting with something I have a lot of right now; zucchini! So, here’s the scoop: If you pick zucchini while it is relatively young, like these pictured were about 10 inches long and a couple of inches in diameter, you can slice them and...