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BONUS Picture of the Day – “Learn from Hannah”

11 Sep 2019
Hannah, in her usual stressed-out (Ha!) pose, among her toys! This cat brings me so much JOY!!! She is hilarious!
Photography…

Picture of the Day – “Familiar”

11 Sep 2019
She chose me. I passed her enclosure at the Humane Society and she got up and rubbed against the glass. She was huge and scared and beautiful. She called out…
From My Bookshelf

Toxic Parents – Emotional aftereffects

2 Sep 201916 Mar 2022
Trigger warning: Discussion of abuse. No details, no photos. Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward has been patiently sitting on my shelf waiting for me to pick it up and write…
From My Bookshelf

The Couple’s Comfort Book – Where’s the beef?

12 Aug 20199 Feb 2023
The Couple's Comfort Book by Jennifer Louden may sound familiar to you. That's probably because I wrote about The Women's Comfort Book by the same author in January. This brings up two…
Interviews

Interview – Carol Hunt: A spicy beauty!

24 Jul 20199 Feb 2023
You first heard about Carol Hunt in my shameless teaser here. She is a beautiful woman - inside and out - and is a walking, talking example of what she believes…
Self-Help Whispering

Marianne Williamson – It will take a miracle!

28 Jun 201928 Jun 2019
Once upon a time, there was an author whose work on love and inner peace was built around a book that I haven't yet discussed - A Course in Miracles.…
Interviews

Interview – Lorrie Goldman: Living the good life!

23 Jun 20199 Feb 2023
Every interview has been a learning experience for me and this one with Lorrie Goldman is no exception. You first heard about him here in my teaser. I knew he…
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? – Motherhood The Second Oldest Profession

14 Jun 20199 Feb 2023
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” – Erma Bombeck I was going to write about comedy as self-help. Erma Bombeck was certainly funny… but I’d consider her a…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – The Things You Would Have Said

22 May 20199 Feb 2023
The Things You Would Have Said by Jackie Hooper is a stunning little book. Under two hundred pages, it doesn’t need more words to get the point across. The best things…
From My Bookshelf

The Universe Has Your Back – Luminescence

20 May 20199 Oct 2019
When you begin to dance with the energy of the Universe, your life flows naturally, incredible synchronicity presents itself, creative solutions abound, and you experience freedom. (pg. 11) Her followers…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Praying with Katie

5 May 20199 Feb 2023
We’d just moved into an apartment smack dab in-between a quaint, small town and a bustling large city. Go one way, and you’d be downtown where old brick and mortar…
From My Bookshelf

New Beginnings – It’s time.

23 Apr 20199 Feb 2023
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. - Ann Morrow Lindbergh New Beginnings by Betty Jane Wylie has been sitting quietly on my…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Fearless Living

18 Apr 20199 Feb 2023
Many years ago, I attended an in-service at the college where I worked. It was one of those “pick one of these and attend or don’t bother coming back to…
From My Bookshelf

You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other Fairy Tales – “This happened to me, learn from it!”

9 Apr 20199 Oct 2019
You Don't Look Your Age... and Other Fairy Tales by Sheila Nevins  is a book after my own heart. In fact, it could have been written by me. It wasn't! But it…
From My Bookshelf

Garden of Friendship – This makes me happy!

8 Apr 20199 Feb 2023
I remember the first time I shared with an artist friend about my love for the work of Thomas Kinkade. She said, "He's dime-a-dozen! Commercial, simplistic and cliché. Just awful." "Oh,"…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – How long does grieving last?

15 Mar 2019
I was driving to work this morning, praying. I will be honest in saying that prayer no longer comes naturally to me. I used to pray a lot. Not so…
From My Bookshelf

Healing Crystals and Gemstones – Healer or Amateur Geologist, you’ll like it!

25 Feb 20199 Feb 2023
My friend Bonney presented this book to me in the year I'd like to forget, 2014. I know this because she inscribed it: "To my gem of a friend"... and…
Interviews

Interview – Kaden Ferretti: Friend, neighbor, and lighthouse

8 Feb 20199 Feb 2023
You first heard about my friend (and community-support-powerhouse) Kaden in this shameless teaser. Readers, I have shared so often that everyone you meet has something to teach you, if you…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Kinship With All Life

7 Feb 2019
I have always loved animals and believe that they are God’s gift to us… for many reasons. I find many of them especially helpful for spiritual and mental health reasons.…
From My Bookshelf

Toxic Friends – Falling to pieces

31 Jan 201920 Jul 2021
Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Toxic Friends…
From My Bookshelf

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry -A Modern Spiritual Journey

26 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield is a book I'd never heard of and passed on the shelves at my fave thrift store a dozen times. For one…
From My Bookshelf

Getting the Love You Want -It doesn’t *just happen*

9 Jan 20195 Jun 2021
“Helen and I like to think of two people in a conscious love relationship as companion stars. Each person is a unique individual ablaze with potential. One is just as…
From My Bookshelf

The Woman’s Comfort Book – It’s all about pleasure, baby!

8 Jan 201915 Sep 2021
You first heard about this book in this post. It always deserved a post of its own and I thought I'd written one. My mom reminded me that I hadn't.…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Let the Magic Begin

4 Jan 20199 Feb 2023
How many things have to happen to you, before something occurs to you. – Robert Frost Cathy Lee Crosby was once a superstar. Drop-dead gorgeous with a dazzling smile, she exuded…
Interviews

Interview – Penny Rose Mixhau: Creator, Philosopher, Human

31 Dec 20189 Feb 2023
You first heard about Penny in my shameless teaser about her. As I was putting this post together, I stumbled while writing the headline. Penny Rose Mixhau on Being a…
From My Bookshelf

Happy for No Reason – Hatred for No Reason

26 Nov 201823 Feb 2021
Hate is a strong word. I'm thinking of it here because originally, when I read this book, I hated it. Ouch, right? Yes, it's a strong word and in this…
From My Bookshelf

Forgive & Forget – Forget? I think not!

16 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
“If we wait to forgive people until they say they are sorry we make ourselves hostages to the very person who wronged us to begin with...” - Lewis B. SmedesForgive &…
From My Bookshelf

A Series – The Alchemist – Final: Part 4

12 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
This is the final post in a Four-Part Series. Part 1 covered the Introduction. Part 2 covered the Prologue and Part 1 of the book. Part 3 covered the first half of Part 2…
From My Bookshelf

A Series – The Alchemist – Part 3

11 Nov 20183 Mar 2021
This is Part 3 in a Four-Part Series. Part 1 covered the Introduction. Part 2 covered the Prologue and Part 1 of the book. This post is about the first half of Part…
From My Bookshelf

A Series – The Alchemist – Part 2

10 Nov 20189 Feb 2023
"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) This is Part 2 in a Four-Part Series. Part 1 which covered the…
From My Bookshelf

A Series – The Alchemist – Part 1

9 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
Some books are *so* important, they require more than one post. This is not to say that any other books didn't deserve "A Series"... just that with this one, it…
From My Bookshelf

How to Win Friends & Influence People – Avoiding a pile of buttered bagels

26 Oct 20189 Oct 2019
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie was published in 1936. The title back then was, "How to Wineth Friends and Infulenceth People"... just kidding. All I'm…
Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Josh: You may say he’s a grief dreamer

7 Oct 20189 Feb 2023
Hey, you guys... you're gonna love my next interview! What can I say about a young man with an old soul who I only met because of serendipity? Several years…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – The Power of Pets

24 Sep 20189 Feb 2023
Originally posted November 1, 2017 One of the greatest things about a blog like this is the ability to share something very close to my heart… by someone close to my…
Interviews

Interview – Michelle JT Ziemann on surrounding yourself with what you love

8 Sep 20188 Sep 2018
You first heard about Michelle Ziemann about two weeks ago in this introductory (and shameless teaser) post. If I continue the love-fest in this introduction, I'll embarrass Michelle - and…
Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Fly High Michelle

26 Aug 20189 Feb 2023
Welp, I've chosen my second interviewee and her name - in case you missed the obvious reference in the blog title - is Michelle. Like my Lucy in the Sky…
From My Bookshelf

Women Who Love Too Much – Yeah, we still need it

23 Jul 20189 Oct 2019
Almost nothing is too much trouble, takes too much time, or is too expensive if it will "help" the man you are involved with. (Pg. 8 - Women Who Love…
From My Bookshelf

eat, pray, love – with a bow on top

4 Jul 20189 Oct 2019
eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a beautiful book. It is the kind of book that women gravitate toward, in a search to find themselves among the pages. Like…
From My Bookshelf

The Heart of Remarriage – Do what I say, not what I did!

23 Jun 20189 Oct 2019
To be clear, I never thought I'd be part of these statistics: In the U.S., 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Second marriages have difficulty for…
From My Bookshelf

The Bliss Mistress – Transformation

22 May 20189 Oct 2019
I had something really neat happen! Someone who enjoys my blog talked to someone he thought might also enjoy it and she, in turn, came for a look-see and was…

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