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Many times, clients will come into my practice and, though they don’t know each other, there will be the same general issue going on with all of them. Sometimes the main problem is lack of faith in themselves, or unresolved anger from the past, or spiritual malaise. During one patch of time in 2011, the trend was repeat heartbreak from choosing crappy partners. Both the guys and the girls in my practice seemed to be struggling with this. One Saturday I sat down and thought,”If I could give them …

We’re talking about self love a lot lately. Thank goodness, because we sure weren’t talking about it when I was growing up. It integrates into almost every conversation I’m having with my colleagues, clients, and friends these days. And as big topics go, sometimes things can get a little skewed and dysmorphic as we seek to understand and apply the principles.

Straight up: I think loving yourself is very, very important. It makes you a more solid, happy, centered person. Self love can help you take …

I’m participating in Shaytember and working on a personal goal to run 10 miles by Thanksgiving. This is going to be quite a feat, given that I have just been able to reach the one mile mark, huffing, puffing, lungs exploding. There is a special reason why I’m taking on this personal conquest. I explain here (Make a dream happen by picking a bigger problem).

Each day in September I am running 1 mile to prepare myself habitually to run and train in …

So I wasn’t gonna post a video until October, when I hopefully felt more confident. But I woke up this morning and said eff it-I’m doing it today. ) haha!

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When I first started my business, I was working at a  glam PR firm in New York City. I was paid to go to fashion shows, send handsome leather boots to Bradley Cooper, and organize racks of frothy, French lingerie. It was fun, and exciting, made me feel zingy-cool. But my heart longed to coach, and write, and help broken hearts heal. Longed.

On the daily at the PR firm, and on the streets of New York, and in airports across …

This is what life does. It throws its arm around you when your pregnant with your first kid and says “Hey Sugar. I know you’re all concerned with your swollen ankles and stuff, but we’ve got bigger fish to fry.” With only 8 weeks of pregnancy to go, I got this sudden, gut intuitive hit that I should go au naturel with my birth. Epidural-free.

Crazy, I know. It seemed preposterous to me too. I was not a “granola type.” I was deathly afraid of pain and had no idea …

Some time ago, in the middle of the night, I landed in New York. I had 2 suitcases, a twenty dollar bill, some credit cards, and a high school diploma procured in the eighties. I didn’t know a soul, except for the nice recruiter man who had promised me a job interview Monday morning.

This is a (sorta) cool story for a freshly sprung college grad in their twenties. But I wasn’t. I was a 40-year-old single woman with three teenagers, starting over. And …

Last June I decided to take a year off from dating and romantic relationships. It was one of the most ballsy, scary decisions I’ve ever made, but after spending my entire adult life either married or in relationships, I knew that I had to do something radical in order to bust out of the pattern I was in and learn something new about myself.

A yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Oh yeah. I went cold turkey. After the first few rocky months of love detox and hugging my cat a …

I love this from Tony Robbins:

I started my day with coffee and the book Ask and It Is Given by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Chapter 4 is How Can I Get There From Here? and in answer to the question, ‘Why is it taking me so long to get what I want?’ they write:

It is not because you do not want it enough.
It is not because you are not intelligent enough.
It is not because you are not worthy enough.
It is not because fate is against you.
It …

“To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
-Newton’s third law of motion

SO. I’m humming along through January like all you guys, full of ideas and new projects, and the third law of motion is starting to show up. The push-back.

This causes an emotional reaction, because it feels like I’m being stopped. When resistance shows up, it can feel like your goal is too hard, ill-conceived, or ultimately going to fail.

The belief that we are being stopped by outside forces is …

 
This is #7 in the series: 5 Daily Questions

Why are the 5 daily questions important? I wrote about that here.

Every once in a while, I’ll take a break from my writing the Daily Note Card to give you guys a piece of music or art that I find exquisite. I have been receiving a lot of mail lately about the topic of fresh starts. Many of you are trying to move on after a hellish 2011. Or a heart break. Or a haunted past that keeps whispering in your ear.

I found something for you.

Regrets collect like old friends

Here to relive your darkest moments

I can see no way, I can see no way

And all of …

This is #6 in the series: 5 Daily Questions
Why are the 5 daily questions important? I wrote about that here.
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My favorite kind of coffee is a blend of beans. My interior decorating style is a blend of clean Restoration Hardware and Bohemian Anthropologie. My favorite kind of wine is …