General Health and Well-Being

Summertime! Although, it’s not “officially” summer, we all know summer “unofficially” began with the Memorial Day weekend we just had here in the States.   If you’ve been following my ezines for awhile, you know how much I love summer.   If you’re new to my ezine: “Mind Matters”, a big Welcome! Check out some of the past summer articles if you want to learn more about “summertime mode”.   Summertime, to me has always been associated with leisure time, play, fun, outdoors and great weather. I grew up on Long Island, New York, and…

Article: Stressed at work? Are you longing for more peace and serenity?   The workplace is a place where employed people spend a major part of their day. Over the last few years, with the many lay offs in almost every industry, many employees have found themselves working longer hours and doing the work of at least 2 or 3 other people. This becomes quite stressful day in and day out.   With others in the same “boat”, the environment can become quite toxic with tension, snide competitive remarks, conflicts among co-workers, as well as…

Money Matters: Your mindset is a choice!    What choices are you making to bring more or less stress into your life?    Now that tax season is over you can relax, right? Well for some that may be true, for others, the process of filing those tax returns likely brought up some financial issues. Money and finances and anything pertaining to the same subject, are major causes of stress for most people.   We live in a culture that encourages debt and denies the lost art of delaying gratification. And, like color that fades…

It’s feeling more and more like spring around here. The vegetation is getting more and more green and even though we don’t get really warm weather yet here in the Northwest, it’s definitely showing signs of warmer days to come. One of the surest sign out in the garden is the amount of weeds! Yup, there they are, showing their faces toward the warming days, lots of rain and so much more light, all the things those pesky things need.   Now, I’ve done “battle” with those weeds in the past, getting all upset by…

As I was talking about rest and renewal.(read: How’s Your Tax Season going?)…I must say…I’m loving this time of the year! The evidence of renewal is showing up all around in me. As I look around, I see that wonderful chartreuse green unfolding on the trees, the daffodils, are showing their sunshiny faces along with many other flowers and plants who want to make their presence known. To boot, we’ve had 3 days in a row of sunshine!  That’s pretty unusual for the Northwest this time of the year. But, it warms my heart and…

It’s April already, which means 1/3 of the year is already behind us.  I’m always amazed at how fast time flies, it seems like a long time ago that we were celebrating the New Year, doesn’t it? Besides for being the beginning of a new quarter, April has the lovely distinction of being  the “tax month”.  My husband and I just completed our tax returns and I have to tell you, it’s always a relief when they are done. Although, taxes are not my idea of fun, this year I decided I wasn’t going to…