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Last week I wrote about how our stories determine our futures, and how we can tell the difference between the facts of what happened to...

If you're having trouble un-sticking old patterns despite your best attempt to not keep repeat ing them, you might be missing a crucial...

The last thing you need, when you’re guzzling eggnog like there’s no tomorrow & downing an entire Pecan Pie just to get you by, is to be...

Dear Desirée: In this week’s column a reader asks, what do you do about an overbearing family member who’s hellbent on putting you down?...

Ready to play with your Inner Leading Lady? To let yourself show up, be seen and SHINE confidently? To bring the star power of you into...

Feel like a guest star or supporting role in your own life? Always doing for others? Feel awkward in the limelight? Here’s four fun...

You can run, but you can’t hide from fear, that’s what Halloween and scary films teach us. And sometimes, in the safety or our own homes,...

In this week’s coaching column, a reader asks "How do you overcome fear and self-doubt so you can take action on your dream? Can you...

Jealousy. Envy. We all have it, whether we admit it or not. The question is how are you going to deal with it? Secretly seethe in...

If your girlfriend doesn’t spark joy, maybe you should consider letting her go. Let me ask you a question: Do you feel more like an...

In this week’s coaching column, a reader asks: Am I too old? Is this dream going to take to long? Should I quit? Read on to get the...

And how you can avoid the one Happiness Hook that steals so much of joy from us in our daily lives. It all starts with a very old story....

One year, feeling like I was living a hopelessly ordinary life, feeling mired in the mundane and left behind by more adventurous friends,...

Free Time. When we’re working it’s often all we can think about… The moment when we get off work, the vacation time, the weekend, that...

About a year or so ago I made a promise to stopping working so much, especially after work and on every weekend. But it didn't quite go...

Why going slow may be just the thing we all need to make our lives more meaningful and more sane. Not to mention infinitely more...

It’s August and I don’t know about you, but in my neck of the woods that means it's the inescapably sultry & hot dog days of summer. “Now...

My days this summer lately have been spent trying to shape the unruly. No, not the garden this week, but my puppy, Bree, a rowdy...