Tag: 2022
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Envisioning Empathy: Why you Should Act out of Empathy Rather than Sympathy
Have you ever thought about the difference between sympathy and empathy? By definition, sympathy is about feeling pity and sorrow for someone’s circumstances. To go just a bit further, empathy is about understanding and sharing the emotions of those circumstances with a person. When they are placed next to one another like this, it’s fairly […]
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Happiness is a Choice
Happiness is a choice. This is a big claim I know, and I am fully aware that I may have just dug myself into a bit of a hole here, but I promise you I can pull myself out and provide some explanation. Of course, there will always be factors out of our control that […]
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Letting Go of What Does Not Serve You
It is not realistic to believe that everything that once mattered, or we were made to believe mattered, is going to remain important to you throughout your lifetime. In this sense, it is necessary to do a good purging of what you carry with you every day to satisfy your ever-changing needs, and this requires […]
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Saving 2022 one Vision Board at a Time
It’s the end of January. For many, this marks the time where new year’s resolutions tend to get a little foggy (I don’t exclude myself from this group.) Since I know that there must be at least a few people out there ready and willing to resurrect whatever is left of their resolution from just […]
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Learning from Life Lessons
In 2019, my former neighbor who was sunshine embodied and whom I considered a second mother abruptly passed away from a heart aneurysm at age 48 while teaching a yoga retreat with her son in Vermont. The following year, my grandmother who, other than her old age and love for dessert, was fairly healthy died […]
Alive and Well(ness) 