Who Am I?

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I’m always honored to have Dr. Cyndi Briggs as a guest blogger. She thinks deeply, shares courageously, and writes beautifully.  ________________________ Be Yourself I grew up in the 1970s, that blissful decade when the expansive thinking of the late 1960s melded gorgeously with the pragmatic sensibility of the 1940s and 50s. Tie-dye tee-shirts and Bob [...]

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Join me today at The Sophia Project

Thank you to Dr. Cyndi Briggs for featuring one of my articles on her blog today. Some of you will remember it from Heartspoken a few months ago, but I appreciate the chance for it to receive a wider audience. Please come by to say hello and leave a comment: “Don’t Let Growing Up Destroy [...]

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It’s time to get right with money

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Anyone who is serious about understanding themselves—I mean REALLY understanding themselves—had better get a handle on their relationship with money. Our attitudes about money are usually formed quite early in our lives, and far too often, we operate on those initial ingrained thoughts and assumptions without ever challenging them or deciding, in a thoughtful way, [...]

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Visit me at the Sophia Project!

Come join me today as I am a guest of Dr. Cyndi Briggs at her wonderful blog The Sophia Project: Releasing women back into the wild since 2010. My guest post is called “De-cluttering isn’t just for closets and Inboxes.” Are you experiencing any of these symptoms? Emotional fagility Trouble concentrating when you try to pray [...]

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Farewell to My Insecurity…

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Heartspoken’s Connection Messenger, Cyndi Briggs, has done it again. Her post on The Sophia Project this morning entitled “I Write a Farewell Letter to My Insecurity” is a powerful manifesto to anyone who has allowed low self-esteem, their inner critic, insecurity, and judgment to paralyze them or deprive them of their full potential. She writes [...]

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Are you kind to yourself?

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Most of us are kind to others most of the time. Most of us will go out of our way to be kind to animals, children, and friends in need…maybe even strangers in need. I don’t know about you, but I have a bad habit of putting everything and everyone else first and forgetting that [...]

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Don’t worry…be happy!

I’m participating with a wonderful group of women from around the world in a “Play in May” program (coordinated by our Heartspoken Connection Messenger Cyndi Briggs of The Sophia Project), and we’re exploring ways to increase playfulness in our lives. Sandy Phocas (www.co-creativeevolution.com) shared this amazing four minute video. Watch it, think about it, and LIVE [...]

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Why I’ve given up on self-improvement (and so should you)…

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I hate Bradford Pear trees. Hate them. It’s not because they’re trees. Trees in general, I like. As a whole, nature is my friend. My dislike of the poor Bradford Pear has to do with the human tinkering that brought it to so many suburban lawns in the mid 1990s. Dubbed the “perfect tree,” Bradford [...]

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Liberating Women, one word at a time…

Cyndi Biggs

Introducing Connection Messenger, Cyndi Briggs. I just love to find women who not only have a vision, but who do whatever it takes to clear the deck of their life to pursue it. I’ve just discovered North Carolina writer Cyndi Biggs, and in just a few weeks, she has written some articles that have just [...]

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