Inspiring

It’s the name of a book I bought on pure impulse. And desire. Permission to Nap. I love the title. It’s so luxurious. It captures the essence so much better than the Spanish word [...]

I don’t know about you, but one longing glance at a potato chip or a kiddie-size cone seems to automatically add a pound on my scale the next morning. It’s a bummer too. When I was [...]

How do we cultivate happiness in hard times? Especially when there is so much stress in the world. Today’s five-minute movie feature is Tony Robbins on Good Morning America. Though his [...]

Fall 2009: Clearing the Past Clears the Present Click here to view

Sleeping in… on a supremely cooshy bed, with soft sheets, and the perfect pillow. Sipping a fabulous cup of coffee in a sunny window seat from a mug that I cradle with both hands. Taking [...]

The blues went away when I began to honor my long-postponed dream/desire/obsession with going back to school to finish an interrupted bachelor’s degree. Thirty some years later I enrolled [...]

“One day a client oozed into my office, slumped into a chair, and said she was depressed—only she said it so slowly that I thought she said “deep rest.” In a way, this was [...]

What I really want to know is: Are you happy? I came upon two articles recently that got my attention. Maureen Dowd reported in her New York Times Op-Ed piece Blue Is the New Black that [...]

Passion. Practice. Precision. Throw in a little Beyoncé, some groovin’ moves, a snug-fitting outfit to accentuate the hip action, and you’ve got dancing magic, baby! As a follow up to [...]

  If you knew me, you’d know that I studied dance intensively for six weeks at Harvard at the grandmotherly age of 30. I was the oldest one in the program. I thought if I studied [...]