How good are you at keeping promises? Let me rephrase that. How good are you at keeping promises you make to yourself. For that matter, how good are you making them? If you have goals -- personal or professional -- but keep on [...]
Do you ever find yourself feeling lonely? We all do at times, I suppose, and we don't have to be alone to feel it. We might be blissfully married with kids, have a great extended family, and a broad circle of friends, yet [...]
Perfectionist. It's a label I've never applied to myself. I've seen it in others, though. Take my daughter, for example. When she was little, she'd draw a circle, scrunch it up, throw it away and try again. One. Two. Three strikes and she [...]
I hadn't planned on entering an inspirational speaker's competition but at 4 pm a couple of Fridays ago, a friend told me that Speaker Slam was accepting entries up until midnight so I just went for it. I'm doing a lot of that [...]
Last weekend, I won a silver pendant at an online event I attended. In January, I won a club membership. Last year I won a hypnosis treatment and an interior design consultation. Sure, luck has something to do with it, but you know [...]
"Mom, be nice." I like it when my daughter calls me out for being judgy or unkind or just plain thoughtless when I could be practicing compassion or self-awareness instead ... like the other day. A woman walked by while I was sitting [...]
Well, this is a post I didn't see coming. We're in the midst of a global pandemic (even if the old man at the bakery thought this was all being blown out of proportion last week, and the local chocolatier had her store [...]
Written by Tamsyn Wood Tamsyn Wood was living the dream until her husband suffered a severe head injury that left him in need of 24/7 care. Today, she resides in North Devon, England, where she is raising four children single-handedly, caring for her [...]
This post has been a long-time coming and by 'long-time' I mean about four days. I set a goal to write this several days ago and failed. On the bright side, this very failure gave me more inspiration for this post, so here [...]
Last month I spent a night at a sleep clinic in downtown Toronto with a gazillion wires attached to my body. Making an appointment hadn’t occurred to me until my BFF suggested I rule out any sleep issues after my gasping woke her [...]
