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Wouldn’t you love to experience more well-being in your life every day this year? Who wouldn’t? The problem is that right now, at the beginning of the New Year, we’re being inundated with messages saying that we need to immediately make some sweeping changes in our lives by taking a course, going on a diet, […]

Most of us have a difficult time understanding that learning to let go of anger is an important path to healing and self-compassion. I have a few questions for you: How many times have you held a grudge, even if someone has said they’re sorry? An example: You’re pissed at your husband because you don’t […]

If I told you that one small act of kindness,  giving lipstick to women on the brink of death,  could help keep them alive, would you find it hard to believe? And if I told you that this specific group of women was in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when the first British soldiers came to […]

  After spending enough time on all fours digging, planting, and weeding, and hanging out with other gardeners, you often hear them commenting on how they can spend hours in the garden and not even know it. They use words like, “Zen state,” “being in the zone,” “transcending everyday conscious-ness,” and many more. What they're […]

Slow down and take the time to enjoy the gloriosity of this season! With love, Fran Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting […]

This is a guest post that I wrote for The Mindful Word […]

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Are you stuck in a rut, feeling frustrated, disappointed, and perhaps isolated? Do you find yourself thinking: “This isn’t the life I expected to live. Where did I go wrong?” Do you sometimes hear your instincts whispering in your ear the reminder that you’re meant to be experiencing a richer life, embracing who you’re meant […]

Are you stuck in a rut, feeling frustrated, disappointe […]

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Photo by Steven Debono “How did I let myself get talked into this?” I thought as I parallel parked my car on a busy street in downtown Philadelphia. My heart was beating like a fast ticking metronome. “It’s not too late to get out of it,” I told myself. I was scared. I was scared […]

“How did I let myself get talked into this?” I thought as I parallel parked my car on a busy street in downtown Philadelphia. My heart was beating like a fast ticking metronome.

“It’s not too late to get out of it,” I told myself. I was scared.

I was scared of taking an Improvisational Theatre course.

I got duped into it. My best friend, who had taken a 13 week course, had fallen in love with it. She was nudging me to sign up for the next series.

I didn’t budge. I don’t like being told what to do...