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You Complete Me (Gag!)
“You complete me.” Most people know the line from Jerry Maguire. What a wonderful scene, right? It triggers thoughts of romance, marriage and happily ever after. It’s the kind of thing I used to dream about. One day I’d find my true love and it’d be magical. He’d think I was the best thing that ever happened to him and he couldn’t live without me. What I didn’t realize was that he was a guy. Unless I was standing in front of him naked with a beer, he probably wasn’t thinking about me. Where did I get those ideas that led to such a rich fantasy life? Our society. When I…
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A Letter To My Daughter
“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.” -Mary Anne Radmacher Dear Arielle, Yesterday when you told me you didn’t make the team my heart broke for you. I knew it was your dream. I’ve watched as year after year you practiced twice a day putting your training before all else. I knew the lessons you were learning through dedication to your sport were life lessons few got the opportunity to learn, but I also knew that life lessons were not what you were after; PR’s were what mattered.
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Buckle Up — It’s a Wild Ride!
Life is a journey. I’ve read those words in many posts and quotes. It’s true. However, I think it’s also important to understand that along the journey are many road trips. They break the journey down into mini adventures. We get to choose which trip we want to go on and plan how we’re going to get there. They could take years like going to college or they could take decades like building a career, raising children or marriage.
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Embracing Uncertainty
“I’m going back.” That’s what I told my husband on the way home from the airport. He smiled because after twenty-six years together he knows. Just nod and smile. I was talking about The Chopra Center. I learned a lot in four days. I knew after I put into practice what I learned I’d have more questions and have to return. My previous two posts have been about lessons I needed to hear while I was there, The first was Worry Is Not Love, the second was I don’t have to believe my thoughts or Limiting Beliefs and the third lesson, the one I underlined in my notebook and wrote,…
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Limiting Beliefs
I sat at the airport. Waiting. They needed me. Time slowed as I scanned my memories searching for guidance on how to handle the situation. I came up with nothing. I was on my own. My children were in a terrible car accident while I was in Mexico. My son escaped with only a rash on his neck from the seatbelt. However, my ten-year-old daughter, Arielle, was in intensive care. We were told she had a bruise on her spinal cord. She couldn’t move her legs.
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Worry Is Not Love
We were two hundred and fifty women from around the world. Doctors, teachers, therapists, moms and writers represented just a few of the women I met. The weekend was magical! I attended Spiritual Solutions at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California. Generally, upon meeting new people, one of the first questions asked is, “What do you do?” Immediately I felt the difference in being amongst all women when the question was not What do you do? It was, “What brought you here?”
