Wedding Vases are widely used by many Indian tribes in America and are a symbol of happiness and long lasting love. Many believe that as part of the ancient marriage ceremony the medicine man would prepare a special potion for the young lovers.  The mixture signified the promise of deep love and eternal happiness for the couple. The Brave and Maiden then sealed the promise by drinking the potion simultaneously from the vase, each using one...

I have come to realize over my years that I have a fairly athletic body. I’m not talking marathons or competitions, but I am saying that I need some form of exercise every day and for a few reasons: It clears my head and my emotions I have energy to burn I enjoy certain forms of exercise I am very much a nature girl …and I like homemade pasta!! To the best of my knowledge, I have Pennsylvania Dutch heritage (and who knows what else is mixed in...

“I do not need anyone else’s permission but my own”   Okay, story time…a looong time ago when I was married I had this beautiful red skirt suit and I felt like a million dollars in it.  I had just had our first daughter and had lost all of the baby weight (and then some) and we were going to my husband’s company holiday party.  I wanted him to be proud of the way I looked so I asked him, “Hun, how do I look?”.  Without even glancing over...

PEPSIP is an acronym I created from listening to people over the years, and I LOVE how it gets people to think differently. It stands for: Passionately  //  Emotionally  //  Physically  //  Spiritually  //  Intellectually  //  Philosophically   try this short exercise to bring some enlightenment to a particular relationship On a separate piece of paper, copy the following charts. Rate first for yourself {on a scale from 1 to 7}  1 means...

warning: don’t feed the ego Who do we need to be for ourselves and then for our loved ones? Establishing limits and boundaries to be true to ourselves is a necessary thing.  Someone that sets no boundaries is feeding everyone else’s needs and not their own— which is external validation, and is ego based vs. soul based. Pride is the nemesis to healing. We are made to grow and transform, to stretch our very being, but our ego gets in the...