An Important Life Lesson from Gordon Ramsay

by Jason Kotecki

Kim and I love watch­ing Mas­terChef on Fox, star­ring one of our favorite TV per­son­al­i­ties, fiery chef Gor­don Ram­say.  Mas­terChef con­ducts a nation­wide search for the best home cooks in Amer­ica, and through a series of excit­ing elim­i­na­tion rounds, turns one of them into a culi­nary mas­ter. In the ini­tial audi­tion episodes of the first […]

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How to Be You Even When You Don’t Like You

by Stacey Curnow

The 12th-century poet Rumi said each of us is try­ing to hide the same secret from each other. It isn’t any­thing mali­cious — we’re just hid­ing the mere fact of our flawed human­ness. Rumi called it the “Open Secret.” I know that I expend too much energy feel­ing less-than-adequate and I expend even more of […]

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ME and LOUSY Jealousy">Remarkable ME and LOUSY Jealousy

by Jen Slayden

When I saw the theme for the month from Lance, BE YOU, I imme­di­ately remem­bered an arti­cle I had writ­ten back in 2010 when I was con­tem­plat­ing the sub­ject of self-worth and iden­tity. It was a period in my life that I had become more aware of how much time I had wasted on wishing […]

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Relationship Success: A Labor of Love

by Kelly Sajonia

To be suc­cess­ful in a rela­tion­ship requires hard work. This is some­thing often said as advice or is an obser­va­tion of what it takes to achieve a level of great­ness in a rela­tion­ship. It’s true, but “hard work” as a descrip­tion sounds exhaust­ing, neg­a­tive, and pos­si­bly frus­trat­ing; it doesn’t sound fun. Does this mean one should not […]

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Why I Just Can’t Give a Sh*t About You Anymore; A Break-Up Letter

by Elisa Van Arnam

“…We ask our­selves, who am I to be bril­liant, gor­geous, tal­ented, and fab­u­lous? Actu­ally, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your play­ing small does not serve the world. There’s noth­ing enlight­ened about shrink­ing so that other peo­ple won’t feel inse­cure around you…” ~ Mar­i­anne Williamson Dear You, I have […]

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What You Can Learn From a Lincoln Log

by Jason Kotecki

Are you Hall of Fame mate­r­ial? Go ahead, think about it. Are you? While you’re mulling that over, let me ask you another ques­tion: Did you know that there is a National Toy Hall of Fame? It’s true. As you might imag­ine, it fea­tures things like Lin­coln Logs, the Hula Hoop, the Slinky, and even the […]

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Why Weight? How to Embrace Your Greatness and Enjoy Life Right Now

by Stacey Curnow

The photo above was taken of me in 1995 — 25 pounds heav­ier than I am now-and still happy. I was 8 years old the first time I remem­ber being called fat. I started suck­ing in my stom­ach in phở­tos from that moment on. I started exer­cis­ing with the inten­tion of los­ing weight when I was […]

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GREAT!">Live GREAT!

by Jen Slayden

“Beyond the moun­tains, there are moun­tains again.” ~ Hait­ian proverb For the past four years I have taken a sum­mer hia­tus from my ordi­nary life as mom, teacher, wife, and friend to back­pack into the wilder­ness with my sister-in-law. We have scaled mag­nif­i­cent moun­tains, recon­nected with each other and nature, and seen the beau­ti­ful, rugged […]

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10 Ideas to Stay Connected to Your Partner

by Kelly Sajonia

“I miss you, sweetie.” This was a com­ment my fiancé made today. He doesn’t mean he misses see­ing me, but rather he is feel­ing dis­con­nected. It has been a hec­tic week so far and, as he put it, this week feels like we are just pass­ing in a hall, but not con­nect­ing. He’s right; it’s […]

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Being in the “Doing” and Loving It

by Elisa Van Arnam

“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the cir­cle of cre­ation is com­pleted inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal every­thing in sight.” –Michael Bridge I love this quote. I love the sim­plic­ity of it. I love how it boils down the […]

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