Life’s challenges can be a springboard to happiness. You might laugh, and say “No way, hard times SUCK, and I wish I didn’t have to go through them!” Well, I’m here to tell you differently. To say to you, “Hard times are a gift.”  Yes, it’s true. IF you take the path of learning from

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~Anatole France The word CHANGE. What does it bring up for you? Do you notice joy, fear, excitement, anxiety, or dread? In the

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I know what you’re thinking, “I hate having anxiety!” – maybe I’m wrong in saying this, but my guess is, I’m not. It’s not a pleasant feeling: maybe you have a knot in your stomach, tightness in your chest or shoulders, nausea, insomnia, or fatigue. I know for me, I didn’t like it when I

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So there I was. Alaska. 10 of us moving up a glacier. I’m in charge on this trip – “the expert” so to speak. With 20 years of doing this stuff, you’d think I was the expert, or at least my ego thinks so. We’re walking up a glacier attempting to complete an ambitious route

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“No, I can’t, I don’t have enough time” or “No, I can’t, I don’t have enough money.” Familiar excuses I spent much of my life running through my head, and saying them to others. “Do you want to go to…. Angela?”, “No, I can’t afford it” I’d reply. “A beautiful retreat to relax and rejuvenate…”

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I had a beautiful conversation with a friend this morning who is going through a big life transition – leaving her relationship. We talked about the loneliness that comes  after living with someone for so long, or even when we haven’t been living with some one. She said it comes up for her sometimes, and

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Doubt. A word and feeling that can be pervasive in thought and action. “I doubt this will work out, or work at all,” “I doubt that I can do this,” “I doubt that they are capable of this.” It’s like a black ooze that runs through our energy, coating hopes and dreams, desires and passions,

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Sometimes we just have a bad day. Even when everything is going “well,” or it’s several days of “bad days,” they are real and can put us into a funky place mentally and emotionally. I recently found myself in one of these days, feeling low energy, mentally and emotionally drained, and not motivated to do

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My family is visiting for two weeks here in Bozeman over the holidays. It’s wonderful to have them here, and truly a gift given that in August of this year, it was thought that Mom had cancer. But it turns out it was just a very large benign tumor, so here we are celebrating life

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One spring, after years of living in a somewhat cluttered home, I decided it was time to clear out the space, in more ways than one. It was over a six month period, tackling one corner of the house per week. It started with simple places, like the kitchen table, the magazine rack, and the

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