What If You Could Have a “Do Over?”
Life is like a racetrack. It’s the curves that make it worthwhile. ~Regina Brett, God Never Blinks I recently sat down and took an inventory of my life. I figured I’m going to have a birthday in a couple of weeks, why not have a “check point,” kind of like the race car drivers do. I thought
Its Up To YOU To Decide Who You Are
In the movie, Chalk Talk, there is a priest who counsels alcoholics and tells stories to inspire those who are in recovery. He told one particular story about a woman who came to him after her drunken husband called her a whore. “Would you be upset if he called you a chair?” he asked her. “Of course
Understanding Sugar Cravings and What to Do About Them
Please enjoy today’s article from Elaina Love, author of three recipe books and founder of Pure Joy Planet and Pure Joy Academy as the guest columnist every Friday in the Journey Back to Self Blog. ~ Chris Understanding Sugar Cravings and What to Do About Them Sugar and simple carbohydrate cravings are a real problem for many
“Life is Like a Box of Chocolates” (or Hot Chocolate in this case!)
“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb”. ~Oprah Winfrey A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work
“You Can’t Handle the Truth!”
“Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.” ~Charlotte P. Gilman Anyone who has coached with me has heard me say over and over again, “We cannot get to where you want to go until we define where you are now.” Many of us have goals. We have
My Mind Creates My World
“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.” ~Judith Viorst I travel quite a bit. Most of my travels have to do with someplace I am going to speak but occasionally I get to do a trip here and
Your Infinite Self
Several years ago I came across some lectures on cassette tape (that is how long ago it was) called “Infinite Self” by Stuart Wilde. I remember listening to his tape series over and over again until I pretty much had the darn thing memorized and the cassettes began to sound warped. His teachings seemed way
Reclaim your health and beauty!
Please enjoy today's article from Elaina Love, author of three recipe books and founder of Pure Joy Planet and Pure Joy Academy as the guest columnist every Friday in the Journey Back to Self blog. ~ Chris It seems that the longer I eat a high raw, low glycemic, gluten-free, health promoting diet, the more beautiful
How “Green” is Your Internal Environment?
“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us”. ~Stephen Covey When I was 7 years old my friend Tracie and I decided to play “barber shop” in my garage. Tracie had long blonde hair down to her hips of which her mother doted and was
