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A Note to My Followers

10 Sep 20229 Feb 2023

I would have said, "A short note to my followers" but you know me. I don't DO "short". I have made some changes around here in anticipation of an exciting…

Self-Help Whispering

A Poem: Reflection

29 May 202231 Aug 2022

What I’d like to talk about today is a self-help topic for the ages. Ahem! Everyone you meet reflects yourself. Or, more simply put: EVERYONE IS A MIRROR What do…

From My Bookshelf

What’s Stopping Me From Being Happy? – Newbie Must-Have!

15 May 2022

I first saw What’s Stopping Me From Being Happy? by Lisa Ellis on my Facebook timeline. Although I’ve taken down my professional FB page, I kept my personal one. Throughout…

From My Bookshelf

City of Girls – In the Mood

21 Apr 20229 Feb 2023

Or not. I mean, sometimes I'm in the mood and sometimes not. For all sorts of things... But right now, it's self-help books. I'm not. In the mood, that is.…

From My Bookshelf

Fiction as Self-Help – the stranger in the lifeboat

22 Mar 20229 Feb 2023

"It's always been a mystery to me... how beauty and anguish can share the same moment." - Mitch Albom (pg. 35) The words “beauty” and “anguish” perfectly describe the stranger…

Self-Help Whispering

2021: Year of Rebuilding – How it’s going

30 Aug 20219 Feb 2023

If you've been around here for a while, you know that every year I choose a word to live by... and for 2021 it is "Rebuilding". Fairly early in the…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Writing Down the Bones

2 Jan 2021

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ― Natalie Goldberg My husband is a newspaper reporter. I…

From My Bookshelf

Grain of Truth – A meditative read

2 Dec 20209 Feb 2023

Ross A. Laird is no slouch. As a Clinical Consultant, Author and Educator who works with a whole whack of companies you know (all listed on his website), he was…

Interviews

Interview – Kathryn Leigh Scott: Supernatural Beauty

28 Nov 20209 Feb 2023

We first met Kathryn Leigh Scott in my post about her beautiful book HERE and then later, in my shameless teaser about this interview HERE. With everything we learned in…

Interviews

Interview – Roger C. Memos: An enlightened (and filled with light) man

16 Aug 20209 Feb 2023

What can I say about a man I met only recently but already feels like a kindred spirit? Turns out... quite a lot! You may remember Roger from my shameless…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – If You Want to Write

7 Oct 20199 Feb 2023

Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. – Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland is as timely today as it was when it was…

From My Bookshelf

Save-My-Life School – Raw, Ouchie and Beautiful

10 Sep 20199 Feb 2023

Sometimes, after finishing a book, I sit back, close my eyes, and consider what I've just been privileged to experience. Save-My-Life School by Natalie Harris is one of those times...…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Questions to ask yourself when buying a new journal

21 Aug 20199 Feb 2023

I’ve learned a few things on this path to Self-Help Whisper-dom and though I’m no expert, I’m really an expert. (Yeah, I’m an enigma.) An expert at what NOT to…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Celebrate Age!

8 Aug 20199 Feb 2023

Age is an opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Vive Gramache!

7 Aug 20199 Feb 2023

Louise Penny is a beautiful writer… even if it’s murder. The setting of my favorite (er, I should say “favourite” since she’s Canadian) series is called “Three Pines” and even though…

From My Bookshelf

Big Magic – Living it in real-time!

1 Aug 20199 Feb 2023

"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” Elizabeth Gilbert You're probably wondering why it's taken me so long…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Writing the Natural Way

12 Jul 20199 Feb 2023

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. T. S. Eliot Get your groove goin’! It’s time…

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

drink, play, f@#k – Overkill

16 Apr 20199 Feb 2023

Andrew Gottlieb is a provocateur. Drink, Play, F@#k is proof of that. Let's get something clear right from the top: Yes, this book is a "parody" of Elizabeth Gilbert's eat, pray,…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Journaling

28 Mar 20199 Feb 2023

I’ve briefly talked about journaling in several posts so far. This will be focusing on it! I am a journal fanatic… although… it goes in fits and starts. When I’m…

Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Kaden: All her bags are packed

3 Feb 20193 Feb 2019

You don't know Kaden (yet!) but you will, soon enough. She's my next Interview! How did I get so blessed to know such wise women and men? Well, in this…

From My Bookshelf

Metamorphosis – Life & Science

19 Jan 20199 Oct 2019

To my mother: This is a book of one mans life growing up. I'm sure if I were to write a book, it would be just as fulfilling. We both…

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,…

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

How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci – Possibly the coolest book I own!

30 Nov 20189 Oct 2019

There is no doubt which principle Leonardo considered as defining the true direction for the furrow he wished to plow. That principle was what he termed 'experience.'" - pg 80,…

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Reading by the Colors – LIFE CHANGING if you struggle with reading

23 Nov 20189 Oct 2019

This post could write itself. Wait, no, not what I meant. I meant, I could write this with my eyes closed. Wait, also not what I meant, except, actually, I…

Self-Help Whispering

It’s my ONE-YEAR BLOGAVERSARY!

20 Oct 20189 Feb 2023

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…

From My Bookshelf

Writing Down the Bones -Required reading

16 Oct 20189 Oct 2019

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ― Natalie Goldberg My husband is a newspaper reporter. I…

Self-Help Whispering

As Autumn Approaches…

19 Aug 20186 Sep 2022

As much as I love the warmer months, Autumn is my all-time favorite... especially since moving to Canada... in which case, I should say it's my all time favoUrite! :)…

Interviews

My First Interview – Lucy Colangelo gets her “ShineOn”!

19 Jul 20189 Feb 2023

You first heard about Lucy Colangelo in my post from two weeks ago. As I said then, she nudged me (without even trying!) to create a vision for this blog…

From My Bookshelf

Back in Control – As promised!

17 Jul 20189 Feb 2023

I've committed a grievous sin against book and book-lover. Forgive me! This book is only one week old and already, it's marked up, highlighted, and has colorful post-it arrows sticking…

Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

8 Jul 20183 Feb 2019

This is a story about Lucy. And, All The Blogs I Loved Before, which is actually the name of the blog before this one. It was one among many... er,…

From My Bookshelf

A Million Little Pieces – A Million Little Lies

5 Jun 20189 Oct 2019

Who didn't want to gobble up A Million Little Pieces by James Frey when it came out in 2004? It was given the Oprah stamp of approval and has cupcake sprinkles…

From My Bookshelf

Dear Me (A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self) – What would you write?

13 Apr 20189 Oct 2019

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost Dear Me is *not* one of the classics among my collection ... but maybe it should be. It is a collection…

From My Bookshelf

If You Want to Write – And as it turns out, I do!

22 Mar 20189 Oct 2019

Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. - Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland is as timely today as it was when it…

Self-Help Whispering

Advice – Questions to ask yourself when buying a new journal

3 Mar 20189 Feb 2023

I've learned a few things on this path to Self-Help Whisper-dom and though I'm no expert, I'm really an expert. (Yeah, I'm an enigma.) An expert at what NOT to…

From My Bookshelf

Celebrate Age! – And friends who lift you up!

1 Mar 20189 Oct 2019

Age is an opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry…

From My Bookshelf

Fiction as Self-Help – Vive Gramache!

20 Feb 20189 Oct 2019

Louise Penny is a beautiful writer... even if it's murder. The setting of my favorite (er, I should say "favourite" since she's Canadian) series is called "Three Pines" and even though…

From My Bookshelf

Writing the Natural Way – The Right-Brain Boogie

12 Feb 20189 Oct 2019

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. T. S. Eliot Get your groove goin'! It's time…

From My Bookshelf

The Things You Would Have Said – Catharsis

31 Jan 20189 Oct 2019

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 Lifeboat – Why I write “Fiction as self-help” posts

5 Jan 20189 Oct 2019

Admirable traits are often exactly the same as negative ones, only expressed in a different way. - Charlotte Rogan (from The Lifeboat) It was one of the best Library days…

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