Tag: Inner peace
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30 Days to a Happier Life
This week’s third installment in the Contemplation & Growth Series is on Happiness. Of the six topics being covered, this is the one I write about most often and is part of the goal in being a naked girl in a dress: to be free, happy, and uninhibited. As I have written in the past,…
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How to Eliminate Stress by Focusing on Happiness
Stress and happiness. They don’t belong together. Actually, it’s incredibly difficult, other than forming a sentence with them, to put them together. Or so I have discovered. The series I started last week is about making even greater positive changes in my life. I found it was time to look up from all I have…
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A Series of Contemplation and Growth
With the one-year anniversary of my divorce passing last week, I have thought about how good life has been these first 12 months of singledom. I could choose to bask in the sun shining right now, but I have decided it is time to work through a few things that I have struggled with in…
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A Moment of Gratitude and Reflection
After a four-day holiday weekend that was at a relaxed pace, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday sick. I did my best to work on key projects, but found I was drained of energy and needed to focus on recovery. While a frenetic pace is sometimes thrust upon us, so too can taking time to rest.…
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Seeing a Ray of Sunshine
Just a few weeks shy of the one year anniversary of my divorce, I have been thinking of the good fortune that has come my way after a long, dark period. The storm I weathered in the last four years was the most challenging in my life to date. There were days I felt so…
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5 Tips for Letting Go of Anger
As I was upstairs getting ready to leave for baseball practice yesterday, I heard a commotion on the first floor. There was yelling, door slamming, and sobbing. As I started down the stairs I saw my daughter with her face scrunched up in an evil look and my son, suited up for practice, sitting on…