Live Bold and Bloom | Healthy Relationships

It’s Never Too Late To Be Who You Want To Be

When was the last time your age stopped you from doing something? For me it was recently when I was wearing a particular outfit, and I saw the look of horror on my teenage daughter’s face. My brain doesn’t even have to catch up with the notion that I’m too old for something. I have […]

Ten Tantalizing Travel Destinations for Personal Growth

I’m reading the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I think I’m the last person on Earth to read it, and now I know what all of the hoopla is about. It’s a delightfully engaging book about feeding the body, feeding the soul, and feeding the heart. Ms. Gilbert writes about her own journey […]

Are You Lovable? Ten Ways to Be More Appealing

We all want love. We are hard-wired to want it. From the moment we leave the womb and enter the world, we are kicking and screaming for love and care. Babies demand love, and mothers are programmed to provide it unconditionally. (Thank God, right? Those crying, pooping, eating machines don’t always foster warm, fuzzy feelings […]

Leave Work Early: Making the Decision to Scale Back

What would happen if you decided to arrive at work no earlier than 9:00 in the morning and left at 5:00 every day? Maybe you already have that kind of job, and if so, you’re excused from reading this post. But this isn’t most of us. I was talking to a friend the other day […]

Embrace the Blues: How to Find the Good in Winter Sadness

So we are in the thick of it now. It’s mid-February, and we are hovering in the windy, dark corners of the winter season. The holidays are a distant memory and spring seems still buried under the cold, hard earth. Here in Atlanta we have seen more rain and snow (yes, snow!) this winter than […]

Love: The Agony and The Ecstasy

Look at the photo of these incredibly powerful, beautiful dancers from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Are they in agony or ecstasy? Or both? We know the story of these star-crossed lovers. They are passionate soul mates whose circumstances pull them apart and lead them to untimely death. Damn. I hate it when that happens. […]

20 Amazing Personal Growth Blogs

Now that I’m a neophyte blogger on personal growth, I have become achingly aware of the plethora of extraordinary blogs with different slants on the same subject. I look at them and drool with the dreams of a one-legged sprinter. I am about to take a Blogging Bootcamp with two of the world’s greatest bloggers, […]

How To Create Your Personal Life Vision

Do you have any idea where you’re going with your life? I used to wonder that all the time as I bobbled through life like a pinball, bouncing from one task to another with no real direction. If my dream job was to be a “Task Master,” I’d become the expert in the field. Routines, […]