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In this blog, you’ll find posts and articles, how-to’s, tips, and stories to help you dig deeper into self-discovery and expand your awareness; elevate to a higher level in your own personal and spiritual growth. Includes our Occupy Sanity Tool (OST) series monthly.

14 Guideposts To Navigate 2023’s Uncommon Crossing

14 Guideposts To Navigate 2023’s Uncommon Crossing

There is a certain trepidation we feel entering 2023. We know things will continue to change as we traverse the coming days. Unexpected happenings will erupt into reality, scorching familiar comforts and beliefs. Accept this turmoil, however disruptive. Powerful new bedrock, ideas, and alliances will be forged from these fires. The quest for what is real and true is accelerating.

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How Books Ignite Our Hearts And Minds

How Books Ignite Our Hearts And Minds

I'm a heart-centered, lifelong learner, reader, and promoter of books. That's right, and I have been reading since early childhood. It was my mother's hobby, and I picked it up from her. I could read just about anywhere - on the floor, in bed, or up a tree. My...

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6 Ways You Can Learn To Relax

6 Ways You Can Learn To Relax

It seems odd that we need to learn how to relax. Shouldn't it be a natural state when we are not in an active mode - like our ancestors' primal fight or flight?  Environment And Our Ability To Relax When did anxiety and nervousness replace relaxation in my life?...

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Let Nature Nurture Your Soul

Let Nature Nurture Your Soul

—We have come out of one of the strangest winters of our lives - having weathered the ups and downs of quarantine and COVID. Our lives are different. The stress of this time we are in plays havoc on mind, body, and soul. Amid the stress of loss (jobs, health,...

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3 W’s Of Belonging

3 W’s Of Belonging

It may be true that we come into and leave this life alone, however, while we are here, we seek a sense of belonging. According to the Oxford dictionary, belonging is "an affinity for a place or situation." We tend to be most comfortable and ourselves when we feel...

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Use Laughter To Quickly Optimize Your Health And Instantly “Lighten Up”

Occupy Sanity Tool (OST): Laughter
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopeful. – Bob Hope
In a year, seemingly filled with many reasons to cry, I have been using the OST: Laughter daily. It might seem crass or cruel to even think of laughing with all the shock, pain, trauma, suffering, angst, and grief, to name a few feelings we’ve experienced. Yet, I learned in my 20s that I needed something to counterbalance my seriousness and my growing tendency to be depressed.

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Gratitude 2.0: A Habit To Turbo-Charge Your Happiness

Occupy Sanity Tool (OST): Gratitude 2.0
I first introduced the OST: Gratitude with a 3 step exercise in my blog post “5 Minutes of Gratitude Attitude Raises Your Vibration”. As I mentioned in that article, I continue to find: “…that a daily Gratitude Practice has improved my ability to move from a negative state into a positive one quickly.” In 2020, there have been times when I needed to ‘turbo-charge’ my practice; thus I’ve created the OST: Gratitude 2.0.

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