Tag: courage
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Sensitivity is a strength, not a character flaw
No time to read? Listen here: What does it really mean to honor our feelings? Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Beautiful Road, where I dive into this question. Our feelings are one of the most beautiful and authentic parts of who we are. They’re like rivers of truth that run through…
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A grateful heart
No time to read? Listen here: I hope you enjoy this excerpt on the beauty of gratitude from my next book, The Beautiful Road! Sara Ban Breathnach’s 1995 book, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy was more than a bestselling book—it was, and is, a revolutionary way of living. It offers a…
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Beautiful Someone, Come Home to Now
No time to read? Listen here: I hope you enjoy this excerpt from my next book, The Beautiful Road! We’ve all heard it before — “Be in the moment.” It’s screened onto coffee mugs, whispered in yoga studios, printed on posters everywhere. And if you’re anything like me, maybe it used to drive you…
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We’re not meant to blend in
No time to read? Listen here: “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” is an episode from the original Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling and based on the fable The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont. The episode depicts a dystopian future where beauty is everything. By age 19, every young person must go through a…
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Hot situation? Stay cool!
Please enjoy this excerpt from my upcoming book: Keep Cool in Hot Situations: Start to Thrive When Conflict Arrives No time to read? Listen here! We’ve got a range of ways to respond when someone is being thoughtless, unfair, or rude to us. Walking away is one of them. On the outside, walking away may…
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See what’s possible in July, Week 4: You, Beautiful 2.0
For decades, running a mile in less than four minutes was considered impossible, beyond the physical capacity of the human body. But in 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, proved this belief wrong by running a mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, England in front…
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See what’s possible in July, Week 3: Strong in the broken places
I tried writing this week’s post three times. Couldn’t do it. The kitten needed spaying. My teeth needed cleaning. My closet needed organizing. And a million other things that come up when I’m supposed to be writing, and I’m just not ready. But then, I remembered a story scribbled in a notebook that I had…
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See what’s possible in July, Week 2: The law of attraction
The 2007 runaway bestseller, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne drew both fierce devotees (who thought of it as a kind of magic) and fierce detractors (who called it pseudoscience). The book’s premise is that there is a great secret available to anyone — a type of energy that attracts everything that we want if we…
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“It’s amazing what love can do”
Please enjoy this excerpt from my new book: You, Beautiful: Getting gorgeous from the inside out. Coming soon! No time to read? Listen here! When we say someone loves themselves, it’s not a compliment. Just the opposite. Loving yourself is being self-involved, selfish. It’s embarrassing to be described this way. “It’s amazing what love can…
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Be kind to yourself
Please enjoy this excerpt from my new book: You, Beautiful: Getting gorgeous from the inside out. Coming soon! Blossie’s Books started with journal entries, just pages of scribbles and reflections about my life: a young marriage, his infidelity, then divorce. Remarriage, infertility, miscarriages, then one day, two beautiful babies. Working for other people, then myself…
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