Intentions…

This week This holiday season This year This decade This lifetime… So much is still unaccomplished. Life, and death, requires inopportune breaks and drain time, energy and attention. Or, perhaps they direct the focus of attention and time to those things that are truly important. Thankfully the wheels are still turning in the background whetherContinue reading “Intentions…”

Checking Your BAGS

When faced with a challenging or potentially dangerous situation that activates survival instincts of fight, flight, and freeze, it is important to have training in place so you can act with purpose and direction. Training yourself to engage in these four exercises will put them into your working memory, and allow your decisions on howContinue reading “Checking Your BAGS”

Addiction destroys connections

Earlier this month I heard on a TED Talk that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety; it is connection. This really hit home with me. So many loved ones have severed connections while succumbing to addictions. Due to denial the tables were always turned to say that I was the one who ‘left’. ButContinue reading “Addiction destroys connections”

Three months to second blog…

Ok so this social media thing is a little overwhelming but I am determined to keep plugging along 🙂 my twitter feed is more up to date and I have been creating video lessons and playlists on YouTube so feel free to check out those sites, the links are available on the home page. ThisContinue reading “Three months to second blog…”

Ahoy!

I am excited to announce the publication of my book You Are Your Captain:  Command Decisions for Sailing Through Life.Every day it seems we hear another tragic story of a life ended to early due to overdose, violence or suicide… as a mother I know the horrors of wondering who may be next, and how itContinue reading “Ahoy!”