I am pleased to reprint the beginning of my guest post, published yesterday on Tess Marshall’s wonderful blog, The Bold Life.
It’s often hard to know what to say to a friend or loved one during his/her trying times. We don’t know the ‘right’ words.
We are uncomfortable with their pain. We feel helpless. And it certainly brings up our own vulnerabilities.
Watching my favorite morning show while exercising, I saw a segment on this amazing feat
We are born to die. It’s a harsh statement but its truth cannot be questioned.
We are all living on uncharted terrain, rough and rocky and very unstable under our
We press the refresh button on our computer. How much more so do we humans
Something precious and significant is taken from us. A death, an accident, a diagnosis, a
The earth has started its next rotation around the sun and a new year is
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Hi, this is Harriet, and welcome to the Happy Minute. I have this real neat box of tissues that has these great words on it. I’ll show you if you
Hi, this is Harriet and welcome to the Happy Minute. Stress. Last time we spoke about the idea of good stress, but when we think of stress, we really think
This is Harriet. Welcome to the Happy Minute. Did you know that there is such a thing as good stress? We all associate stress with negativity, anxiety, inability to
Hi, I’m Harriet, and welcome to the Happy Minute. Do you ever think of the word playful? What it means, who it relates to? I’m sure we all think
Hi, I’m Harriet, and welcome to the Happy Minute. The word happy somehow doesn’t jive today from my minute, considering the horrific weekend we’ve had in our country with
Meet Susan Angel Miller, a community volunteer, organ donation advocate and proud author of the book, Permission To Thrive: My Journey from Grief to Growth. She’s lived through every parent’s
Lawnmower parenting is it! It’s the relatively new term and concept that has pushed aside the helicopter parent of today. It’s similar but may be even more overt in the