This year I had the pleasure of photographing high school senior portraits for several girls from the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. I loved it! I had so much fun connecting with and photographing these gorgeous and fun seniors. And Madeira is a gorgeous campus, with dance studios, dorms, faculty housing, fields for sports, a…
Interstitial Journaling, a combination of time-tracking and journaling, is an excellent to develop awareness about how you spend your time. And that awareness can lead to some really positive changes in behavior. WHY DO INTERSTITIAL JOURNALING? As someone who has overcommitted to projects and tasks my entire life, I’m always on the look out for…
Now that you’ve got your word of the year, you may be wondering what exactly you do with it. How do you use your word of the year to influence and improve your life? How do you keep your word of the year top of mind? There are three things to think about for putting…
So how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Have you already broken half of them? For most of my life, that was me! I would create massive lists of New Year’s resolutions in the belief that if I only kept one or two I would still be ahead in the game of life. But I…
I still remember my inner critic talking to me before I published my first YouTube video a few months ago. “What are you doing! You can’t go on YouTube! You’re too old! Your video skills are too basic. No one is going to watch. You’ll look foolish!” Fortunately, I had been working on my inner…
We all want to feel happy, to lead happy, fulfilling lives. The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in our constitution! And yet, many of us feel depleted, burnt out, overwhelmed. That’s where a self-care action plan can help! My Story I’ve spent years trying to figure out how to find some measure of happiness in…
I know when you have a million things to do, the last thing you want to do is add something new like journaling. But if you can just give it a one or two week trial, you’ll begin to see the benefits! In this article I’ll talk about the benefits of journaling, how to get…
So what is self-care? At the most basic level, it is about taking care of yourself and doing activities that promote your well-being. Sounds easy, right? All we need to do is find an article that lists a bunch of self-care activities that sound good and do them! Well not quite! Most self-care advice has…
Life is Precious Momento Mori, which means contemplating your own mortality, was commonly practiced by the Stoics centuries ago to remind them of how precious life was. It can be easy to lose sight of this, when we get lost in our thoughts and are dealing with the hassles and inconveniences of daily life, or…
The Merriam-Webster definition of welcome is to greet someone in a warm and friendly manner, with pleasure and hospitality. I’ve been a little obsessed with this word ever since I listened to Anne Lamott talk about the “Book of Welcome” that she thought was accidentally left out of the scriptures. “The welcome book would have…