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After losing his parents, Roscoe, a 3-year-old orangutan, was so depressed he wouldn’t eat and didn’t respond to medical treatment. The vets thought he might die from sadness. The zookeepers found an old, sick dog on the park grounds where[…]

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”   ~ Oprah Franz Kafka, at age 40, who had never married and had no children, was walking through a park in Berlin when he noticed a little[…]

Have the courage to release the past and the wisdom and strength to embrace the present. I taught a Self-Hypnosis training for weight loss many years ago. Each student was assigned to create a recording with positive affirmations. Several weeks[…]

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~Wayne Dyer In my hypnotherapy practice, I coach my clients to create their future by moving toward their goals, looking forward to what’s ahead in[…]

There is a famous folk tale about the power of belief, a story about Elephants and the Rope. Have you ever wondered why elephants, these massive animals, are held by nothing more than a small rope tied to their front[…]

“The Chain of habits and thoughts are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”  (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784) We often look at habits as negative behaviors, yet we don’t always recognize the good habits[…]

Through adversities, our greatest gifts of growth and opportunities are discovered… The lotus flower is one of the most stunning and ancient flowers representing the deepest symbol of growth. It grows in muddy, murky waters sucking in nutrients while using[…]

“The secret to living is giving.” ~ Tony Robbins Many of us look for happiness by trying to create it. We scramble around seeking and searching…yet it doesn’t always display itself in the form we seek. Sometimes, all we need[…]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Did you know there are libraries where you can borrow a person instead of a book? This project, the Human Library®, is a library of people in the true[…]

Never leave personal development to randomness. At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. At age 24, Stephen King worked as a janitor and lived in a[…]