Rose, Bud, Thorn

Today I want to share an exercise I discovered and quickly fell in love with last month.  It is short, taking no more than a minute or two; it provides an avenue to recognize gratitude, joy, and challenges; and as an added bonus, it makes for a great dinner conversation starter with family! It’s called

Challenging Negative Self-Talk

Author’s note: This is Part 2 in a pair of posts.  I encourage reading Part 1 (My Friend Q) if you haven’t yet seen it! We live our lives largely unaware of the constant internal monologue we hold with ourselves, and for most the voice inside our head speaks with both positivity and negativity, building

My Friend Q

I have a friend.  She’s a lifelong friend—for the sake of this post, let’s call her Q.  Q and I grew up together, and went to school together; we played as children together, and as adults we now work together.  We’ve been roommates, living together, and to make a long story short, we are as

Pocono New Year’s Remembered

For the last two years my husband and I have struggled make plans for New Year’s Eve; the difficulty is twofold.  First is the one that is most often joked about – that the older we get, the less we care about staying up until midnight to drink and party with the “young ‘uns.”  And