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Hamming With The Turkey

November 23, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt Leave a Comment
'Eat Ham' Turkey

Turkeys get a bad rap until it's Thanksgiving Day, when they hold court and have us bending over backwards fussing all over them (notwithstanding their demise). Unless you're "Aunt Mary" who doesn't seem all that impressed by our Nation's Thanksgiving treasure. The video below at the expense …
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Filed Under: Humor, Videos Tagged With: Mary Risley, Tante Marie, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Turkey

Climbing Your Mount Everest

October 7, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt Leave a Comment
Blue Mountain

"Change happens slowly, then all at once." –Jay W. Vogt This has been a big week for me; a big dream come true. My first article just went live on the Huffington Post!! It's a really good thing I didn't know it would take years to realize this dream of writing a column one day. Years of …
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Filed Under: Blog Favorites, Clearing, Contemplations, Humor, Inspiring, Published Articles, The Journey, Videos Tagged With: Clearing Journey, Downsizing, Huff/Post50, Huffington Post, Ira Glass, Personal Transformation, Reinvention, Self-Improvement, Seth Godin, The Power of Intention

Your Last Words

July 5, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 2 Comments
Hammock Bliss

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that’s waiting for us.”–Joseph Campbell. So you're on your deathbed. You've lived a long and vibrant life. You have your family around you. You're ready to cross over feeling very content and complete; …
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Filed Under: Articles, Blog Favorites, Clearing, Contemplations, Cultivating, Humor, Inspiring, Mindfulness, Practices & Tips, Self-Care, Simplicity, The Journey Tagged With: Anne Lamott, Bronnie Ware, Clearing Journey, Death and Dying, Expressing Gratitude, Joseph Campbell, Lightening Up, O Magazine, Regrets of the Dying, Witnessing Presence

Neatniks Need Clearing Too

April 19, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt Leave a Comment
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Does the clearing ever end? One of my 30-Day email message subscribers recently renewed the series and shared these insights... "Thank you Stephanie. This [clearing] is a life long process. I realize. Hard to believe that is an epiphany. It now seems so obvious. I used to think that I'd …
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Filed Under: Blog Favorites, Clearing, Contemplations, Cultivating, Humor, Inspiring, Mindfulness, Q & A, Stories, The Journey Tagged With: 30-Day Free Email Series, Balance, Clearing Journey, Conscious Clutter Clearing, Lightening Up, YourSpaciousSelf.org

Honoring the Clutter

April 12, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt Leave a Comment
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"Embrace the beast inside you."–sbv This little troll pig became our clearing mascot at the last Your Spacious Self retreat I offered at Kripalu recently. Isn't she adorable? One of the ways we honor the clearing process, is to embrace the "beast." I ask participants to bring a small object …
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Filed Under: Beauty, Blog Favorites, Clearing, Clutter, Cultivating, Humor, Mindfulness, Practices & Tips, Self-Care, Simplicity, Spacious Detachment, Stories, The Journey Tagged With: Altar of Letting Go, Clearing Practices, Clearing Ritual, Conscious Clutter Clearing, Gentle Self-Care, Kripalu Center, Letting Go, Lightening Up, Remembering, Witnessing Presence, Your Spacious Self – Workshop

Choose Joy

March 18, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 1 Comment
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"[We say] 'Get happy.' And you say, 'oh too simplistic'...So what kinds of things are you doing that is holding it away other than than noticing that 'it hasn't come yet'? Well, that will do it." –Abraham-Hicks Close your eyes, crank up the volume to the video below, and get happy.   …
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Filed Under: Clearing, Cultivating, Humor, Inspiring, Simplicity, The Journey, Videos Tagged With: Abraham-Hicks, Celebrating Life, Lightening Up, Power of the Mind, Releasing Stress, Self-Improvement, Simplifying, YouTube

Born to Be Wild, Messy, and Marvelous

February 22, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 3 Comments
Creativity

"Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me …
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Filed Under: Articles, Clearing, Cultivating, Humor, Inspiring, Mindfulness, Self-Care, The Journey Tagged With: Anne Lamott, Balance, Gentle Self-Care, O Magazine, Oprah.com, Personal Transformation, Self-Care, Self-Improvement, Simplifying

Embrace Your Inner Three Year-Old

February 18, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 3 Comments
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"...I believe that if you live your life with a great attitude; choosing to move forward and move on when life deals you a blow; living with a sense of awareness of the world around you; embracing your inner three-year old seeing the tiny joys that make life so sweet; and being authentic to yourself …
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Filed Under: Beauty, Clearing, Cultivating, Humor, Inspiring, Mindfulness, Simplicity, The Journey, TV & Talks, Videos Tagged With: 1000 Awesome Things, Balance, Great Blogs, Inspirational, Neil Pasricha, Personal Transformation, Self-Improvement, Simplicity, Simplifying, TED Talk

Go With the Flow (It’s Refreshing)

February 15, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 2 Comments
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Last Saturday I did something completely out of character for (my introverted, worker bee) self. My Mexican cousin and his posse of ten friends from Mexico City were in town for the weekend [San Miguel de Allende – where I am at the moment]. I bumped into them on the street, and like a little …
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Filed Under: Clearing, Cultivating, Humor, Self-Care, Simplicity, The Journey Tagged With: Balance, Celebrating Life, Joy, Lightening Up, Mexico, Releasing Stress, San Miguel de Allende

Relaxed and Ready

February 1, 2011 By Stephanie Bennett Vogt 1 Comment
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I love this photograph by Vivian Maier. The dog is ready for action... And totally laid back at the same time. How cool is that? Photo by Vivian Maier, via John Maloof Video of Vivian Maier available here …
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Filed Under: Clearing, Cultivating, Humor, Simplicity, Spacious Detachment, The Journey Tagged With: Balance, Clearing Journey, Dog, Ease, Inspiration, Photography, Self-Improvement, Simplifying, Take a step back, Vivian Maier
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