To see your purpose through takes courage.  To have courage takes guts and gumption. A good example of a gutsy woman is Dr. Cynthia Barnett, a professional woman who is African American.  She is a Ph.D. in Education originally from the Caribbean. When she moved to the United States in search of a better life, […]

Coping with the loss of someone or something you love is one of life’s biggest challenges. After a period of grief – which is different for everyone – the task is to recover from helplessness, sorrow, anger and overwhelming sadness and become stronger. The physical body provides an analogy to this uplifting principle, for a […]

While there is no such thing in reality as utopia, although every culture in the world has a version of it – Paradise, Nirvana, Eden, and Shangri-La, etc ,it is human nature to long for perfect peace and happiness. Many of us love hearing stories of how people achieved their version of utopia. Here are […]

This inspiring story is one that we can each use in our work and our own lives about the famous violinist, Itzhak Perlman, as reported by Jack Reimer of the Houston Chronicle. One evening, Itzhak Perlman performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. Because he had polio as a child, he walks with leg […]

Dr. Mona Jhaveri is the Founder and Director of Music Beats Cancer. She started her career as a cancer researcher and moved into the biotech industry where she realized fund-raising is extremely difficult. She received her doctoral degree in biochemistry at Wake Forest University, followed by post-doctoral work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

June 17, 2020 …a day I will never forget. That’s when I started feeling sick. My kids wanted to go to the pool. While there, I developed chills. After we arrived home, I went to bed. That was just the beginning. By evening I vomited uncontrollably and had no control over my body. Almost  a […]

I met Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul at a recent Life Planning Network gathering. She has also written several other books  dealing with shadow work. All of her work is available on Amazon.  As guest speaker, Connie emphasized that as we become increasingly reflective with age, we have […]

Waning days of summer remind me of a time to reflect on purposeful things I want to do for me this season. My mind goes to all things yellow like corn on the cob, butter, squash, daffodils, buzzing bees and so many other yellow things. As Ezra Pound says, “The paired butterflies are already yellow […]