Category Archives: Conscious Living

Four steps to positive change

A while back, I was talking to a private mentoring client about making big changes. She was unhappy with her business and knew that change was necessary, but she was feeling uncertain about her future direction. Did she want to change her business focus, close the business and take a job, go back to school, […]

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How we create our own reality

To quote Oprah, today I’m going to talk about something that “I know for sure”: Each of us creates our own reality. Bad stuff going on in your life? You are responsible. Good stuff happening? Pat yourself on the back because you brought that into your life, too. Living with constant ups and downs? You […]

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How to survive an IRS audit while traveling

We received a Christmas gift from the Internal Revenue Service this year: one audit notice. When my mom — who receives and reviews our mail — started reading the letter to us, neither she nor we knew what it was. She skipped around as she usually does, first reading out our tax ID number, then […]

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Living with addiction

Most of us don’t have the kind of addictions you hear about on the news, the ones celebrities get sent to rehab for, the ones recognized as life altering or capable of destroying families and ruining lives. No, our addictions are more subtle and, you might argue, even inconsequential: caffeine, tobacco, or sugar. “Did she […]

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Strrretching my comfort zone

Do you ever have to psych yourself up to go somewhere new or go solo to a group event? I do. That may be because I’m a homebody at heart, but I also think it’s because it can be difficult to change our regular habits. I’m comfortable going out with Brian; I’m much less comfortable […]

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