Create Clarity, Comfort, Connection … and Simplicity in your home

Who thought Carmen Shenk’s book about kitchen simplicity could change your thoughts about your own home?

I love how this book helped me see my home through the author’s lens of simplicity and how it jump-started new ideas for me about how to better organize my kitchen. Even now, weeks after I finished the book, I am still evaluating how I set up my kitchen, what’s necessary and loved, and what is just taking up space. I have a renewed energy for my de-cluttering efforts. I also loved Carmen’s approach of keeping her home a haven, and actively keeping out the negative energy that abounds in the world. Keep reading

Who is deciding what’s right for us?

You go to your annual appointment with your doctor. Routine labs will probably be offered. Depending on your age, this may include a cholesterol check. Depending on the result of that test, you may be told you have high cholesterol and ‘need’ to take a statin medicine.

This is based on some established guidelines. Have you ever wondered exactly who it is that decides these guidelines? What would you think if you knew that half of the doctors who wrote the 2013 guidelines had ties to the drug companies that make statins? Keep reading

My One Word, an ongoing tale

I have been talking a lot recently about how much I recommend choosing a word to focus on every year, so I thought I should look at the practice I had been taking for granted a bit more deeply.

I turned, as I always do, to books. I found this one: My One Word, by Mike Ashcroft and Rachel Olsen. I recommend this book to you. You can find it anywhere books are sold, or at the library, where books are borrowed. 😉 This book is helping me go deeper this year with the process of choosing my word, or rather, allowing my word to reveal itself to me.

Because that’s what is happening this year.

This happened to me once before, in 2015. I already had a word picked out that year but then I looked at the My One Word website and a different word, the word BRAVE, chose me. Now that I have read this (and other) book(s), my true word for 2019 has arrived. It’s a good one. Stay tuned. Keep reading