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As far as the eye can see…

3 Feb 2023
The featured photo was taken along the shore of Lake Ontario. I love looking out across... how it seems to go on and on... Life is like that... Today, we…
Photography

Photo Journal – Oh, the places we’ve been!

16 May 202210 Sep 2022
Mom and I had a fantabulous week! The plane ride to and from was okay, too... but getting to the tarmac on time proved to be a pain in the…
From My Bookshelf

The Mindful Way Through Depression – This Navel Gazer Approves

29 Mar 202229 Mar 2022
Mindfulness = To "Pay attention on purpose." -pg. 47 I have to say something first. *ahem* The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon…
From My Bookshelf

The Shift – Part 1 – His life’s meaning

3 Nov 20214 Nov 2021
I've mentioned the late Dr. Wayne Dyer more than once. In fact, the first time I mentioned him just happens to be in my very first post for this blog!…
From My Bookshelf

Love, Medicine & Miracles – What took so long?

19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021
"People need to know they have an option. You can focus living in the present moment, or you can get wrapped up in the horrors of the future and let…
From My Bookshelf

Mind to Matter – It all begins with a thought…

26 Aug 202115 Sep 2021
I'm going to tell you a few things right up front... This is a Mom's PickThis will take a commitment of at least a week (or in my case, a…
From My Bookshelf

YOU The Owner’s Manual – Prescription: Take the next 371 pages and call them in the morning

12 Jul 202112 Jul 2021
"Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?" - Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. It will surprise you -…
From My Bookshelf

Breath – Confession: It was torture

18 Mar 202115 Sep 2021
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. - From the inside…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021
In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…
From My Bookshelf

Your Body Believes Every Word You Say – One of the truest titles, ever!

18 Nov 202012 Oct 2022
Reading Your Body Believes Every Word You Say by the late Barbara Hoberman Levine (2014) wasn't easy. After all, I suffer, as you know, from health anxiety. <<< Link to…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Moody Bitches

14 Oct 202012 Jul 2022
“Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren’t developing cures; they’re creating customers.” ― Julie Holland Moody…
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…
Photography

Picture of the Day – In search of breath & flowers

23 Aug 2020
I am sure I'm not alone in saying I hate Covid-19. I hate that a whole spring and summer was spent inside and that we finally went to the mall…
Self-Help Whispering

How’m I doing with 2020: Year of Clarity?

20 Aug 202020 Aug 2020
Every year I pick a word to focus on and this year the word is Clarity. When I first talked about the word, I was thinking of... Uh... Myself. Yeah,…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

18 Aug 2020
“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”  ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – Wherever You Go, There You Are

18 Jun 2020
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn is…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 202016 Jun 2020
I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – Migraine

19 May 202019 May 2020
Ann Redfearn’s Migraine is one of my books with little post-it arrows sticking out, marking important pages. It’s not a big book like the Fibro book I talked about last month. It’s small…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – “Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain”

21 Mar 2020
I remember the first time I mentioned to my doctor that I believe I have Fibromyalgia. She rolled her eyes. I stopped as I wrote that last part, about her…
From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020
Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…
From My Bookshelf

Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Oct 2019
Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD is the perfect self-help book, if by self-help you mean actually doing stuff to ... you know...  help yourself.…
From My Bookshelf

Full Catastrophe Living – Reminds me of someone I know (Hint: it’s me!)

25 Aug 20199 Oct 2019
"This book is an invitation to the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing." From page 1 of the Introduction- Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the…
From My Bookshelf

Fiction as Self-Help – Turtles All The Way Down – Never has there been a more appropriate book for the Fiction as Self-Help Category!

20 Jun 201915 Sep 2021
I almost don't know where to begin. Turtles All The Way Down is by the same guy (John Green) who wrote The Fault in our Stars, which I didn't read…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20193 May 2019
I can’t talk about this book without talking about myself. I don’t have a light case or dabble in it… I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…
From My Bookshelf

The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Hey! That’s what I was gonna name MY book!

10 Mar 20199 Oct 2019
If you're like me, you think I've already written about this book. In fact, I haven't. We are confusing it with this "last book" I wrote about in October, 2018.  The…
From My Bookshelf

Women Who Think Too Much – Freakin’ story of my life!

15 Feb 20199 Oct 2019
Women Who Think Too Much by Susan Noln-Hoeksema, Ph.D. is one of the best books on the subject of... well, duh... women who think too much. I should know! I've…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Kitchen Table Wisdom

10 Jan 201916 Jan 2019
The cover is soft, pliable… and the pages aren’t cut to straight edges. They look torn, as if from a journal or ancient book of poetry. This is something you…
From My Bookshelf

Brainstorm Revolution -Many authors, one voice

7 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
Brainstorm Revolution is an anthology, of sorts. It is many stories and one, all bundled together. It is black-and-white, black and white, and a rainbow of colors. It is deep,…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – A Year to Live

29 Dec 2018
Stephen Levine passed away last year. Before he did, he worked tirelessly to help others approach their own deaths. He wrote best sellers about what he learned from other’s travels and…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one?- A man named Turtle and his excellent website

6 Nov 2018
Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom will keep you busy for a few days… weeks… okay, months. To be clear from the onset, I do not know him personally nor am I getting…
Self-Help Whispering

It’s my ONE-YEAR BLOGAVERSARY!

20 Oct 20185 Sep 2022
One year ago, I sat at my kitchen table, on this computer, and typed my first words as The Self-Help Whisperer™. Little did I know that the words "Who is…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – From Panic to Power

9 Oct 2018
From Panic to Power by Lucinda Bassett begins with a nice ego-pump for those of us who struggle with panic and anxiety. It’s good news! We have above average intelligence, are…
From My Bookshelf

Undoing Depression – If only!

21 Sep 20189 Oct 2019
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…

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