This week your challenge is to amp up your JOY filter! What does that mean? For some reason Halloween night merges into Christmas season over night. It’s weird, right? Although the holiday season brings a lot of joy, it also brings a LOT of STRESS! Which means, that now our stress starts rising 4 weeks earlier than it needs to? Ugh. So with that in mind, this week let’s really rev up our … [Read more...] about WEek 8 ~ Connect by using your joy filter
Week 7 ~ Connect through Friends
What is yet another way we can shift from a stressed life to a blessed life??? Friend-Time. Did you know that friendships keep us healthier, happier, less-stressed and help us live longer. So often as a very busy mom, I find that I am in the throws of every day family life, schedules and chaos…then I realize how long it’s been since I had one of my Friday Lunch Dates or hit the movies with a … [Read more...] about Week 7 ~ Connect through Friends
Week 6 ~ Connect by letting it go
This week our challenge seems easy enough, however, sometimes we don’t know when or how to “let it go”… However, once we do, we find release, relief and often times the missing peace we have been craving. One way we can move from stressed to blessed is by letting go what we no longer need or believe to be true. Picture yours elf holding a glass of water in the air. Now what if I asked you to hold … [Read more...] about Week 6 ~ Connect by letting it go
Week 5 ~ Connect via TOUCH
Reach out and TOUCH… This week your challenge is to connect via TOUCH. This can be accomplished in many ways. Recently when dealing with a client who suffers from terrible anxiety I found this “trick” that was suggested to help ground you and shake you out of an anxious moment. The tip said you should find 5 things you can see, 4 things you can TOUCH, 3 things you can hear, 2 … [Read more...] about Week 5 ~ Connect via TOUCH
Week 4 ~ Disconnect
This week your challenge is to disconnect! What an odd way to get connected right? Well, as many of you know, last year my family had created a cool family ritual we called DETOX TUESDAYS. That meant every Tuesday in 2014 from 5 – 10 p.m. we did not allow any type of electronic in use. NO iphones. NO computers. NO tv. NO radio. NO electronics. And you know what we discovered??? We love being … [Read more...] about Week 4 ~ Disconnect
Week 3 ~ Connect through listening
Being a somewhat outgoing, crazy, busy mom/wife/woman/friend/coworker etc. the “noise” around me gets so loud. Sometimes life is just so dang noisy. Not to mention all of the shouting that goes on inside my head “why did you do this?” “why didn’t you do this” “do you think that was ok” blah blah blah. This week our challenge is to shut it all down and LISTEN. This week I challenge you to … [Read more...] about Week 3 ~ Connect through listening
Week 2 ~ Connecting through Sight
Now that we are on our way to 15 weeks of feeling blessed (not stressed) I can reveal our theme. This year’s theme is “CONNECT”. Even though we are the most connected social community in history, we still find ourselves feeling disconnected, stressed out and sometimes all alone. Which is why I felt motivated to introduce the theme of CONNECTing. Over the next 14 weeks I hope to … [Read more...] about Week 2 ~ Connecting through Sight