Currents July 2023
As I write this, I am sitting out on my covered patio listening to the thunder roll, watching the rain fall, and breathing deeply the rejuvenating smell of a summer…
The Power of Having Choice
Images from pixabay.com Life presents many choices; the choices we make determine our future. – Catherine Pulsifer Someone asked me recently to talk about a significant choice I made in…
The Past, Present, and Future
Lead Photo by Kari Shea on Unsplash There are some stories that may be seasonal because of the setting, but are applicable all the time. One such story was brought…
Choosing Friends and Being a Friend
At a recent meeting with our Big Ocean Women communication team, Emily asked, “What is a choice you made in your life that greatly influenced your life trajectory?” The first…
Reclaiming our Power to Choose by Escaping the Low Brain
Lead Photo by David Matos on Unsplash I’ve always been fascinated about the human brain and why we do what we do. Recently, I have been delving into studying more…
Currents July 2022
With several landmark decisions having recently come from the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the word “choice” is pulsating in headlines, social media posts, conversations, commentaries, and…
Choosing To Be the Hero of My Story
I am training my tree. I have this vision of how it will look many years from now. It will be different from the other trees in my new-construction neighborhood…
Choose to Change, Rewire Your Heart
This month we celebrate our freedom to choose. An important facet of this gift is that it opens the door for us to choose to change. I am grateful that…
Choosing Freedom and Joy
Over the past few years, I’ve been coming across more and more information and resources that teach the fact that our thoughts carry power — for good or for bad.…
Free to Choose
What does it mean when we say, “We are free to choose, and willingly accept responsibility for our choices?” Today, I’ll share some of my thoughts on this subject, but…
Choose to Feel Your Feelings
There certainly are times in my life when I have NOT felt free to choose. At times, when circumstances seemed bigger than me or when I felt like a victim,…
Communication Choices
Of the almost innumerable choices we make daily, perhaps the most consequential are the ones that impact those around us. The words we choose to use, our tone of voice,…