One of my recent goals is to let go of the need for validation.

Almost as soon as I set that goal, I was approached with two opportunities which match my skills and training, if not my current career path. Both were short term projects similar to things I’ve done in the past. I could...

To have success in business, I’ve found there are three key factors: Timing, audience and action.

In other words, the right offer has to reach the right people at the right time.

In the world of healing, people get better when the right provider brings the right treatment at the right...

I have been hard at work on completing my contribution to a book about healing and transformation. Thus I didn't think I had anything to write and was going to skip it for now.

But then I thought about something I learned while writing about the Impromptu Rubber Duck Regatta (IRDR) and how...

About seven years ago, around the time I changed my solo massage practice into one employing others, before I even named the business, I took one quite intentional step to bring attention to my growing enterprise: I painted our front door red. This was done both as a symbol of welcome...

With all the current stress “in the air” at the moment, I wanted to share a quick meditation I wrote and recorded a few year ago. Use it to help yourself and those around you relax today and in the weeks to come. Relaxation and deep breathing is so important in keeping...

A little long, but hopefully worth a read....

August 16th is a complicated day for me. It's been filled with both celebrations and sadness over the years. It's the day my mother passed away 29 years ago. It's also the day I officially opened my first business, Balance Day Spa, back in 1996.

When...

If you've read much of my writing, it's probably obvious I am trying hard to move past some limiting beliefs and emotional pain from the past. Clearly, if you've read my last few columns, you know a lot of these issues have to do with my mother. Plenty of material there, for sure.

One...

"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
~George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

My mom was a gardener - an avid one - and I've chosen to share the quote above as a step in my own healing and to repairing my relationship...

On October 14th, a new sunflower was brought into the world, The Sunflower Princess! This little beauty has been in my heart and life for a very long time but she is just now being introduced to the world.

The SFP (Sunflower Princess) came into being as an idea and story about 14 years ago when...