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  • A Year Changes You A Lot. Taking Stock of 2016, and Moving into 2017.

    A Year Changes You A Lot. Taking Stock of 2016, and Moving into 2017.

    These days, it seems like everyone is on the anti-2016 bandwagon. With the new year on the horizon, I start to wonder if you can arbitrarily move on from this year, and move into the next?  Obviously, we can’t stop the passage of time, but I’m thinking about this on a deeper level.  Will we…

  • Self-Care: An Important Aspect of Life, or Nonsense?

    Self-Care: An Important Aspect of Life, or Nonsense?

    I don’t really know why, but the term “self-care” keeps popping up in my life.  I see it on Twitter, in online articles and even in an audio book I’m listening to.  So what is self-care? And why the sudden movement around it? A few definitions I found online all suggest that it is when…

  • So You’ve Had a Bad Day? Three Survival Strategies to Get You Through It

    So You’ve Had a Bad Day? Three Survival Strategies to Get You Through It

    You know how it goes.  Your morning starts like this:  you wake up, literally on the wrong side of the bed.  When you get to the shower you find there is no hot water.  Then you head into the kitchen and discover that your husband took the last cup of coffee.  You leave for work,…