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Get On Your Marks!

January 11th, 2012
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Today is your starting line.

Think about all the good intentions or projects/ideas you keep in the back of your brain with the goal of pursuing them some day when you get more time.  You really want to make these things happen but it always seems that something gets in the way and the ideas remain just ideas; the creative thoughts are something to be developed in the future, and you just don’t get started.

Today is diffferent.  Today is the day you kick yourself out of the box and you take the first step in researching, investigation or brainstorming.  … Read More

Gabby Giffords

January 7th, 2012
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Photo by CBSNews.com If you Google the word resilient, you will find yourself reading about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ. Resilience is the ability to recover from a crisis, a dramatic life change or even failure.  Some people are born with resilience and others develop it. Resilience is when life hands you an awful situation and you turn it into an opportunity to learn or develop something about yourself. Resilience is digging down deep within ourselves and finding the resources to cope with a changed life. To me, this is the essence of Gabby Giffords. One year ago tomorrow, Giffords was… Read More

Mojo for 2012

January 4th, 2012
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Whenever I find myself straying off the path of being healthy and positive, I go read my Kris Carr books.  Carr, an author, motivational speaker, wellness coach and cancer survivor, is always uplifting for me. She provides down-to-earth tips on self care along with other insights about living a healthy lifestyle.  To jump start your mojo for 2012, try to focus on the priorities in your life and what inspires you.  Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there.  Below is a link to a recent post on Kris Carr’s website, Crazy, Sexy, Life (http://www.crazysexylife.com/).  While this particular post is… Read More

Happy New Year!

January 1st, 2012
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We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.                       ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce Happy New Year!  The idea that 365 days stand before us, fresh and unmarked, ready to be embraced is rather daunting. As I flip through my new 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art calendar book that my Dad gave me for Christmas, I am hesitant to write in it because I want 2012 to remain unchanged.  What will this year bring?  Will I be ready?  How… Read More

A Time of Healing

December 31st, 2011
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As 2011 draws to a close and a New Year is almost here, you might be trying to figure out how you are supposed to face the future without a loved one who recently died. Longtime grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt of Fort Collins, Colo., advises story-writing and storytelling to help the healing process.  “Tell the story of death and you begin to acknowledge it,” Wolfelt writes.  “Tell it 10 times and you begin to let it enter your heart.  Tell it over and over and you find it becoming part of who you are.” And from that… Read More

Mommy Doesn’t Shave Her Face

December 29th, 2011
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I was shopping the other day at the local drugstore for Christmas stocking stuffers for my son and browsing among all the different shower gels being sold for men.  I was trying to figure out which one my son would use when my eyes traveled over to the section displaying men’s razors. Ahhh..men’s razors.  I was reminded of a period of time right after my husband died.  My son was 13 years old and in the eighth grade.  A tricky time under the best of circumstances.  He had grown some stubble on his face but I didn’t think it was… Read More

Quiet & Solitude

December 28th, 2011
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Give your mind a rest.  Just as your body needs sleep for renewal and optimal health, your mind needs periods of quiet and solitude. A quiet mind reveals important things about your life, changes you may need to make to create a healthier and richer lifestyle. Inner information such as this cannot break through constant mental chatter.  A period of solitude “recharges” the brain and the body. —     By Elliot Dacher, MD, & author of Whole Healing: A Step-by-Step                                                   Program to Reclaim Your Power To Heal… Read More

Christmas Sighting Of A Loved One

December 26th, 2011
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In the hustle and bustle of eating, talking and being with my wonderful family yesterday on Christmas Day, I received a unexpected present that I think others who have lost loved ones will be able to identify with.  Maybe this has happened to you but you didn’t tell anyone else about it because you figured they would give you that look that says, “Okayyyyy. Rigghhhttttt.” My son and I were at my parents house and all of my siblings, nieces, nephews were gathered to celebrate Christmas.  There was lots of activity — electronic and human — and everyone was enjoying… Read More

Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes

December 23rd, 2011
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Happy Birthday Cry, Laugh Heal!  Yup.  It has actually been one whole year since Cry, Laugh Heal was launched as a blog and I really can’t believe it. How would I measure my first year of blogging? In friendship, in kindness, and in support. That’s what blogging has meant to me.  It has opened up a new world of connecting with others on an emotional level and also has given me new resources for information and that is exhilarating.   Along with my son’s help, I pushed myself to learn something new and I am so glad that I did.   … Read More