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What Is The Kindergarten Answer To Your Problem?

What Is The Kindergarten Answer To Your Problem?

Are you like me who ponders, thinks, tries, researches and often falls pray to "struggling" to find answers to the pressing challenges of your life? What if you stepped outside of the issue and pondered what wisdom might be found in a playground sandbox attitude, instead? Sometimes we get so emeshed in our problems that we "can't see the forest for the trees". We believe the answer will be found […]

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Five Great, Life Enhancing Questions

Five Great, Life Enhancing Questions

What am I willing to fight for? What values do I hold dearest to my heart? What values would I be willing to die for? If I could achieve a single thing, what would make my hard work worth the struggle? If I had 30 seconds to live, what would I tell my children are the 3 most important things I learned about how to live a happy life? These […]

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The Lifetime Question

The Lifetime Question

"What are the five most important goals I want to achieve in my lifetime so that when I am lying on my deathbed, I can look back at my life and feel satisfied and complete? If I spend the next 5 years the same way I've spent the last 5 years, how much closer to achieving my lifetime goals will I be?" What great questions to ponder! I attended a […]

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I Hear You.  I Am Hear.

I Hear You. I Am Hear.

When you are expressing a challenge to a friend or family member, what do they say? Do they try and fix it, minimize it, or change the subject to themselves or do they respond as suggested by Wendy Harpham M.D. by saying, "I HEAR YOU AND I AM HERE. Today as I celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the severe flare up that I had of my autoimmune disease, I […]

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Futility and Hope

Futility and Hope

What story in your life do you connect to when I offer the word FUTILITY? Does the story also contain a feeling of HOPE or is it simply a memory of anger and sadness? Dr. Gordon Neufeld's book entitled, "Hold On To Your Kids" offers a perspective on the healthy aspects of futility that I found interesting. I am currently finishing my book entitled, "Hope For Our Children - The […]

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Christmas Miracles

Christmas Miracles

Tonight is Christmas Eve and I am struck by the contrast between the busyness of the season and the peaceful significance of the holiday. Our busy family that includes 2 small grandchildren celebrated an early Christmas last night before some of our kids travel to their new in-laws for the holidays. As I sat and watched our expanding family celebrate together amidst the chaos of wrapping, food and laughter, […]

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Blood Cancer Awareness

Blood Cancer Awareness

*EVERY 5 MINUTES SOMEONE IS DIAGNOSED WITH A BLOOD CANCER. *EVERY 10 MINUTES SOMEONE DIES OF A BLOOD CANCER. *THE RATE OF HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA IS HIGHEST IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS. I have a long standing commitment and passion for the challenge faced by anyone given the diagnosis of a blood cancer either as a patient or a family member. As a young nurse I worked in pediatric oncology so I worked […]

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Disease Proof Your Child

Disease Proof Your Child

One of the arguments and complaints against diet changes in children that I encounter most often is that they are already picky eats and will be undernourished if we remove common foods like dairy products. My answer is always the same: children naturally gravitate to a few, over consumed foods and their diet most often lacks variety. Children with food sensitivities are on a roller coaster ride of addictive […]

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Anger – A Block To Forgiveness

Anger – A Block To Forgiveness

What do you do to manage your anger when you can feel it rising in your body? Do you lash out at what you believe is the cause or do you suck it up and say nothing? How does your anger get in the way of your ability to offer forgiveness to the people in your life? At my retreat over the weekend I learned many things and one […]

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Finding Your Dream – How Do You Do That?

Finding Your Dream – How Do You Do That?

Today I am doing something new, inviting and a bit edgy - I am going on a silent retreat for the weekend. It was one of those lovely "coincidences that crossed my path last week and my soul lept at the peace and rest the idea offered. My recent vaccination for H1N1 had resulted in a flare up of my autoimmune disorder and I was pondering what it was […]

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