growth – The Self-Help Whisperer®

Was I surprised to see Self-Care for Men by Garrett Munce on a sale table for $2? No. No, I wasn't. Why? Because most men I've known would rather poke…

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Picture of the Day – Interloper

16 Sep 2021

This beauty is sneaking through our back fence. Sneaky little plant! 😀

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Picture of the Day – Fuzzy Butt

14 Sep 2021

I LOVE bees! They aren’t easy to capture but this shot is pretty good! Look at his antenna! So beautiful! 🐝💞🐝

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Picture(s) of the Day – I got new shoes and where they took me :-)

31 Aug 202131 Aug 2021

I have been wearing my falling apart running shoes to walk since I began this health journey in June. There are holes in them, as I’ve worn them for at…

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Picture of the Day – “Friendly Acorn”

17 Aug 2021

I swear, he smiled at me!

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Picture(s) of the Day & A Short Lakeshore Video

14 Jul 202119 Jul 2021

Self-Help Whispering

Self-Help for your blog – YOU NEED this platform!

1 Jun 20211 Jun 2021

I don't usually do posts like this but I couldn't NOT, given the numbers I'm seeing right now on a site that was - at first - just for fun.…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Who Moved My Cheese?

26 May 2021

Every day, I would drive home from work thinking about what I would write here. Sometimes, I’d get things sorted before I walked in the door. Sometimes, it would come…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets

24 May 202124 May 2021

Now, you may ask yourself what in the WORLD was I thinking when I picked up this book? Fair question. Here’s the answer: This might be fun! See, every once in…

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Picture(s) of the Day- Prayer Grotto

19 May 2021

I love this place so much and today I was drawn to it. I have shared photos of the space before but these are new ones. It seems that every…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – How to Argue and Win Every Time

3 May 2021

And *this guy* knows a thing or two! “He has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. He has not lost a civil case…

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Picture of the Day – “Early Spring”

2 May 2021

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Picture of the Day – “Beach Tree”

4 Mar 2021

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Picture of the Day -“Everything about this…”

8 Jan 2021

From the benches to the crossroad to the water, the sky and the glorious tree!

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

1 Dec 2020

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander… he is a psychiatrist and scholar.…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Happiness Project

25 Nov 2020

It was a "Heather's Pick". Who the heck IS this Heather at my local bookseller? I picture her small and stooped over, with sexy librarian glasses and orthopedic shoes. She…

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A poem -“Naked”

13 Nov 2020

Draw me Here, amongst my rumpled clothes Arms outstretched Grasping Though my soul knows It's time to let go. Grab my satin robe The red one, hanging on the door…

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Picture of the Day -“Shadows & Leaves”

13 Nov 2020

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Undoing Depression

12 Nov 2020

I love the subtitle of Richard O’Connor’s Undoing Depression: “What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You”… because… it’s always felt to me that there was something… some component… that…

Self-Help Whispering

Leaning In – Profile Photo Edition

31 Oct 202031 Oct 2020

Something happened this morning... It is "nothing about me" and "everything about me" ... and "everything about you," too. Let's see what you think! Good Ol' Facebook asked that you…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – A long story & A bonus musing at the end

29 Oct 20207 Dec 2020

Facebook is so kind to bring up memories from past years. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, always a peek into what was going on in my head that same day last…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Little Book of Stress Relief

18 Oct 202018 Oct 2020

The Little Book of Stress Relief by David Posen, MD is not a heavy book… and by that, I mean, physically or emotionally. The cover is inviting and beautiful. The chapters are 1…

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Picture of the Day -“Cemetery Road”

11 Oct 2020

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – As a Man Thinketh

11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020

"A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Hero Within

8 Oct 20208 Oct 2020

No matter how much people want to feel loved, appreciated, and a part of things, they will be lonely until they make a commitment to themselves, a commitment that is…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – This is Me

3 Oct 2020

"Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Daring Greatly

28 Sep 202027 Sep 2020

I have read, seen and heard Brené Brown so many times that I get confused as to whether I’m talking about her Daring Greatly book (or one of her many others), her TEDx talks, her FB page or her interviews…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Emotional Intelligence

17 Sep 2020

My IQ is modest. My common-sense is pretty-much nil. But my emotional intelligence? Well, let’s just say it works better than the other two combined. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman is the kind…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – I’m OK – You’re OK

12 Sep 2020

“Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently. They have beat their heads against the same wall so long that they decide they have had…

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Picture of the Day -“Howdy, neighbor!”

11 Sep 2020

These little beauties snuck through the fence slats to give me a little bit of joy today!

Self-Help Whispering

How are we doing?

11 Sep 2020

So, I’ve lost about ten pounds since we stopped eating meat. Only 100+ more to go. 🙄 I kinda digress, yes here, at the very beginning of the post. 🤣…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Begin with Yes

13 Aug 202013 Aug 2020

Begin with Yes by Paul S. Boynton is easy reading and the message itself is simple: Begin with Yes. Then how come it took me 64 pages to say, “Oh! I get…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Road Less Traveled

6 Aug 202026 Sep 2020

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. An excerpt from the poem, “The Road Not…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – Down Came the Rain

29 Jun 2020

I did not have postpartum depression. When I was having children (in the early 1980s) it (postpartum depression) wasn’t “a thing”. Except, of course, it WAS. We just didn’t know about…

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Picture of the Day -“Almost Summer!” 🌞

12 Jun 2020

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Picture of the Day -“After the Storm”

11 Jun 2020

Isn't it the truth? In weather and in life!

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Picture of the Day -“Spring has arrived!”

25 May 2020

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Recalibrate

24 May 202025 May 2020

Once upon a time, I wanted to live in a yellow house with a potter's wheel in the small artist's studio out back, a sparkling blue swimming pool, art in…

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Picture of the Day -“Hurry up, Spring!”

6 May 2020

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Picture of the Day -“Ghandi says…”

25 Apr 2020

From My Bookshelf

the power of you – Yes, with lower case letters

23 Apr 202023 Apr 2020

“Fear hates daylight, so it usually comes by cloak of darkness to haunt. It arrives when you’re not at the helm when you’re not really conscious of your own thinking.”…

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Someone dies from suicide every 40 seconds

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