happy thanksgiving cooking!
How’s Thanksgiving prep coming along? What?!? You haven’t started yet?!? Thanksgiving often feels like the most important holiday of the year at my house. My Chinese-born husband has always loved…
back to basics | mindfulness + gratitude + food
Earlier this month, we kicked off the “Back to Basics” series. This week, we’re taking on my fourth food rule: practicing mindfulness and gratitude around our food and, perhaps more…
baby steps | give (and receive) thanks
Thanks. It’s one of those words we automatically drop. So this month—appropriately the month many of us celebrate Thanksgiving and post about gratitude on social media, your baby step to…
5 annoying answers + 1 useful one
Hey—it’s me, and I’m back from vacation! And of course, the first question I have to answer is, “What did you do on your summer vacation?” Well, I spent it…
world gone to hell? give thanks.
Has the pandemic got you down? What about all the racial injustice and inequity? How about the political climate? How about climate change? Stop. Before you spiral into all that…
Gratitude … and recognition and appreciation
Every month in The (Sorta) Secret Sisterhood, we feature a Q+A with an expert—usually a woman who serves women 40+ through some type of healing modality, from conventional medicine to…
Making space for the invited inevitable
Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want. ~Danielle LaPorte If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that in addition to…
Emotional Sixpack | On power outages and flexing different muscles
The power went out last week in the wake of a crazy windstorm. And it stayed out for almost six days. We lasted two nights in the house, then resorted…
Are you reacting or responding?
What do a rotisserie chicken and a kitchen sink have in common? It’s been an interesting week for me—I don’t know whether it’s been a phase of the moon or some…
Baby Step #12 | Celebrate (yourself)
This is the final installment of a 12-part series titled “Baby Steps.” On the first of each month, I post 1 tiny step toward better health that you can take every…
Baby Step #10 | An attitude of gratitude
This is the tenth of a 12-part series titled “Baby Steps.” On the first of each month, I post 1 tiny step toward better health that you can take every day…
Attitude of gratitude
People who express gratitude on a regular basis have better physical health, optimism, progress toward goals, well-being, and help others more. ~ R.A. Emmons + C.A. Crumpler in “Gratitude as…
