Rolling Tires are Happy Tires

While attending a driving class with our twin sons, I was excited to learn this simple concept regarding challenging weather driving. It’s held true many times in my driving years and actually, it seems like a great analogy regarding social media. When we find ourselves rolling along with our social media unsmoothly–finding it causing some …

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Social Media and Loneliness

Loneliness is an epidemic and also part of our common humanity–says Ravi Chandra, M.D., a San Francisco-based psychiatrist and writer–and guess what, sport fans–social media has been implicated as part of the problem–heavy sigh. Dr. Chandra shares this analogy regarding social media which I found very thought provoking: “If you have the seed of loneliness, …

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Find Your Roots Nourish Your Soul

I’ve become fascinated with a PBS program called Finding Your Roots, where Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps celebrities better understand themselves through discovery of their family histories and ancestral origins. The outcome of this process often leads to emotions such as enlightenment, healing, calm, inspiration and grounding to name a few. Exploring our family history …

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Giving Ourselves Permission

This topic came up in one of my recent yoga classes and it felt like a great topic to further explore because I need reminding of this periodically as well. It seems that you and I are wired to seek permission. When we were kids, we needed permission from parents, teachers and other elders and …

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