I’m falling in love with a teacher named Deepak Chopra. I leave my husband’s bed many mornings to spend quality time with my darling Deepak before anyone wakes up. I tiptoe downstairs in my pajamas, stare out the living room window, and listen to...
It’s often said that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but this adage is a little pessimistic for my liking. I love learning. Thanks to years of therapy, self-help books, and Oprah episodes, I’ve learned more about myself than I ever thought...
Do you ever find yourself fussing at the people you love most? I do this frequently, and if you’re anything like me, it never seems like your fault. The problem is always theirs. When you’re running a busy life, it becomes almost instinctual to...
These days, I do more than my fair share of delivering speeches to large groups of people. In fact, I’ve studied the art of giving powerful presentations for decades. However, I never once thought about applying the lessons I’ve learned about public...
Negative self-talk can sound like a never-ending loop—and a frustratingly painful one, at that. One day you might feel like it’s in check, but the next, your inner bitch radio won’t stop singing, “If You Suck and Everyone Knows It, Clap...
Inventor and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller once said that 99% of who you are is invisible and untouchable and I think he’s right. There are only two things that make you, you: your physical and your mental parts. Your physical parts are...
Negative self-talk can be such a brat sometimes. It hardly thinks twice before jumping down your throat to attack you for not being, doing, or accomplishing more than you have. Not surprisingly, this voice comes from your dragon of self-doubt...
Self-esteem is a fascinating and almost counter-intuitive concept when you put it to practice. On the surface, it’s defined by how you feel about yourself, but the remarkable twist is that it seems to fluctuate, almost violently, depending on...