Positivity in Action- The Positivity Club Mom
One of the most rewarding projects I have ever created began last year in the wake of the tragic deaths of two boys at the high school my kids attend. They were on a school outing at the Oregon coast...
View ArticlePositivity in Action: Falling Off the Grid
I live in a rural area of Oregon, so when storms hit as they do here in the Northwest, it is not unusual for my home to be disconnected from the grid for a week or more. It’s a weird thing to live in...
View ArticlePositivity in Action: Kickstarter Launch!!!
“If you had just one more minute to get a positive thought, that could change everything.” This is what I hear myself say at the end of our kickstarter video as I watch the faces of some of my...
View ArticleMiracles in Our Midst
The New York Times I remember a few years ago after a huge forest fire ate up a large neighborhood of homes in the Colorado mountains and a small statue of Mary appeared in my inbox. A friend’s friend...
View ArticlePositivity in Action: The Grace of Why
Today in the grocery store, I shared a real conversation with one of the mothers I knew in the years that my eldest son was consumed for a love of tennis. I knew her son had been present at the...
View ArticlePositivity Quest- Learning to Help
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.” -Gandhi We are basically good. I trust this belief and try to live my life through this window of the...
View ArticlePositivity in Action: A Flurry of Miracles
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein Years ago I studied the Course in Miracles....
View ArticleGood Clean Love Earns Gold Star for Product Safety
Sexual health and product safety are the cornerstones of the Good Clean Love product mission. The company was created 10 years ago in response to my own personal need for intimacy products that were...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us
Today I begin my third edition of my positivity quest blog with a renewed commitment to daily writing as a vehicle for my awakening. This is the third new year that I have begun the year by...
View ArticleBefriend the present moment
The living moment is everything. ~D.H. Lawrence One of the most powerful ways that my positivity quest has evolved of late is in my aspiration and dedication to befriend the present moment. Today I...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us: The Person I Aspire To Be
I am traveling on the East Coast, which is where I was born. In the past, my visits have left me bewildered, lost in old stories and lost to the self I was trying to grow into. Each time I visit now...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us- How Love Heals Us
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” -Victor Hugo A new friend reminded me today that the patience and tenderness that I seek for my estranged family is in reality a search for love in...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us : In ashes
I came to celebrate my mother’s 75th Birthday. I was committed to not making it worse. I was just aiming for 5% better. The thing about letting go of the past is that you have to be willing to...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us – The Wealth of Our Nation
I have learned how to care for myself. Yesterday was a painful experience of witnessing and releasing some of the hardest aspects of my childhood. I am grateful to know I am not being held by the story...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us: There is Only Through
The only way out is through. I am not the first to say it and tonight it was my wise son who reminded me what I have always taught him and his siblings: that it is only with the courage to communicate...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us- Fear and Guns
The mass shootings that are taking the lives of innocent people in schools, movie theatres and shopping malls are occurring at such regular intervals that no matter what side of the gun laws you sit...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us: Building Community
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” -Kurt...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us: Health Is Everything
My stomach was so upset last night it wouldn’t rest. So it went with the rest of me. Food feels like a foreign substance, and even my beloved juice doesn’t quite taste right. Now it is time to learn...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us Honoring Doctor King
Today I had the privilege of teaching a class called Achieving Social Justice throughPositivity Consciousness at our local high school’s Respect Day where a group of local community and spiritual...
View ArticlePositivity Reinvents Us- Our habits define us
“The chains of habits are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” Samuel Johnson To a large extent we are what we do every day and to an even larger extent the human...
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