by TAadministrator | Mar 10, 2015 | Habits, Vision
If you live somewhere with fabulous, cold, snowy winters like I do, then you are probably starting to get excited about the shift that is now underway. The snow is starting to melt, I am seeing muddy grass for the first time in months and the temperature has actually...
by TAadministrator | Mar 4, 2015 | Brain, Habits, Vision
I recently joined a powerful group of women who meet monthly and talk, and share resources about writing and motherhood and womanhood. We talk, we eat, we share and we write. This weekend we worked with two prompts. One of the prompts revolved around the notion of...
by TAadministrator | Feb 23, 2015 | Brain, Habits, Stress
I have been reading and studying Yogic texts for about eight years. One of the concepts that comes up and creates interesting dialogue and interpretation is the notion of brahmacarya, which is one of the Yamas. The Yamas are the first limb of yoga, and relate to the...
by TAadministrator | Feb 16, 2015 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset, Stress
When I got my first period, as a rather shocked 11-year-old, my mother congratulated me for starting the “curse.” And I did find it a curse! I was a gangly, nerdy, sporty, shy, brace-wearing kid who did not want to have to deal with the irritating physical aspect of...
by TAadministrator | Feb 10, 2015 | Ayurveda, Brain, Habits, Mindfulness
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and...
by TAadministrator | Feb 3, 2015 | Ayurveda, Brain, Habits, Stress, Vision
Early february is a time of transition in many faiths and countries. We are halfway between the winter and spring equinox when Spring is on it’s way and the first crocuses start to appear (unless you live in the cold North like me, in which case you’re buried under a...
by TAadministrator | Jan 20, 2015 | Brain, Habits
What is success? This is an interesting question because everyone has a very different notion about what constitutes success. For some it is financial, for some it’s lifestyle, and for others it’s reaching a certain position in a company or in society. However for...
by TAadministrator | Jan 14, 2015 | Habits
One of the things about going through a life transition is that one inevitably re-evaluates one’s self worth and one’s friendships. As Jean Shinoda Bolen so eloquently says “once you are on your own, once you can’t return to who you were and who you were with, once...
by TAadministrator | Jan 6, 2015 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
I have always remembered dates. For me they mark the passage of time and I have always felt it is important to acknowledge events in my life, both good and bad, and the emotions that are inevitably generated by these events. It is easy to remember the good dates and...
by TAadministrator | Jan 6, 2015 | Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2014 Tuesday September 16th, 2014 would have been my 14th wedding anniversary, if my ex and I had not separated this year. Although the research says that women tend to have much more regret about romantic failures than...
