The Sovereign Queen I was recently inspired by the book “The Queen of Myself: Stepping Into Sovereinity In Midlife” by Donna Henes. This book posits that, because we now live longer, the traditional archetypes for the arc of a woman’s life, Maiden,...
Extreme stress I have been through decades of extreme stress and living. It almost broke me. I was abandoned by one parent when I was a baby. I was traumatized as a pre-teen. I had a violent first husband. I broke a lot of glass ceilings in the early years of my...
Setting Boundaries We have heard about setting boundaries. We all do so, consciously and subconsciously. I want to talk about this important life skill. First, how do we know when a boundary is needed or violated? We feel something! Often, it doesn’t feel good. Hurt,...
There are times in life when the path to the desired outcome is not clear. You are committed. You believe in what you are up to. Yet, the only thing you can see to do is take the next step. Then the next one. Not exciting. Not even certain. You only know that you need...
Hope. Feeling hope is generally easy when all appears to be going well and according to your plan. As we all know, though, real life doesn’t stay on that track indefinitely. Something always happens to disrupt our plan (or, at the very least, the timing). Or, suddenly...
