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Living a healthy life, what does it really mean? Is a healthy life reflected in our physical health, our mental state, our relationships, our work, our stress level? What does it mean?
I was talking to a young woman yesterday. She is twenty-four years old, very bright, beautiful, and a genuine mover and shaker. She had […]

I was reading “Thinking About Memoir” by Abigail Thomas yesterday. No, I am not planning to write my memoir, I just like Thomas. I read “The Three Dog Life” sometime ago, liked her style and what she had to say so much, that I decided to read all her books. “Thinking About Memoir” is one […]

My clients keep me honest! I can’t work with people on life balance and life purpose unless I do the work myself. I am consistently reminded of this since I attract people who are like minded and are struggling with issues I have also struggled with.
The people who come to me are tired of going […]

We live in times of turbulent change. No matter where we live or what our current situation is, we are affected. There is so much going on right now. The economy is experiencing painful mood swings, there are twelve days to the national elections and people are faced with tough choices. Anxiety and stress are […]

At the Möbius Leadership forum session titled “Walking the Tight Wire: Family and Career, Finding the Balance,” moderator Robin Ely, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, suggested that “people focus in their lives on what it is that they want to create, and not necessarily on what it is that they want […]

Life doesn’t present us with a clear, unobstructed road. On our way, we get potholes, roadblocks, and mudslides. Our lives spin out of control. We lose our jobs. Our businesses falter. Our children seem to have grown up overnight and we are not the center of their world anymore. We fall out of love. Stress […]

As I read through the newspaper today, I came to the realization, once again, of how fear and anxiety are gripping our world. Why not after all?
Our economy is flanking; the education system is letting our children down; there is war going on; the health care system is inadequate. . . do I need to […]

These last two months have been very exciting for me. For a while now I have been sensing a shift in my work. There is an air of renewal and the desire for more clarity and direction. I have been down this path before and I can read the signs well. Bruce Burton said: “When […]