Transform Me

Today is a very important day for you. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to stay stuck where you are right now or are you going to choose to do something different? As humans we are creatures of habit, and moving outside of our habits can be uncomfortable and scarry. Most of us don't like to admit it but we just can't do it alone, we need someone to help us, motivate us, tell us to not listen to our critter brain and step into the new and out of the old. John F. Kennedy said, "There are costs and risks to a program of action, but these are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." What program of action are you ready to take? Where do you feel stuck?   Are you moving into a new phase of life that creates a feeling of uneasiness? Just graduated? You're a new parent? An empty nester? Feel lost? etc. My program of transformational action is just what you need to tap into your own personal power and create new possibilities f...

Winter time is coming to a close, and the world is beginning to prepare itself for the arrival of spring. Spring is all about rebirth. It reminds me of the mythical bird, the phoenix. This beautiful bird lives it life until it starts to lose it feathers, it loses its beauty and then it uses the power of the sun to catch himself on fire before it dies. This pile of ashes appears as if it is the end of the bird, but then something wonderful and amazing happens, it rises from the ashes and lives again. It does this over and over again. This is the ultimate representation of the rebirth of the body, mind, and soul, that unleashes itself when the spirit is set free from its shackles (those things that bind). We all are like the phoenix. I don’t mean that we can literally die and then be reborn again (though there are some who believe this is possible), but we can lose parts of ourselves, become a shell of who we are and then allow the power of those things to bury us (as the ashes buries th...

 Out of my 4 kids 3 of them have disabilities. It took a long time to figure out exactly what they had. They tried to tell me that 2 of them were ADHD and needed to be on medication. I said no to the meds until I learned more about ADHD. The more I studied the more I realized that they didn’t have it. The school kept nagging me to put them on meds and I kept refusing. I finally got the new school psychologist and their speech pathologist to listen to my concerns. They got together and looked over the kid’s school records and decided to do some testing again. This time they discovered that, yes, my kids did have attention problems but they weren’t ADHD or ADD, they had a thought processing disorder. They also told me that it was a good thing that I never put them on meds or it would have made it WORSE not better. I looked right at the principle and said, “See, I told you that I felt like putting them on meds wasn’t the right thing to do!” He, and the teachers in there (all pushing f...