Someday is Here

“…We all die, some sooner rather than later. We are all just a breath away from it, all the time.

Don’t fear being near death — but rather fear, dread, loathe, and do all you can to do avoid near-life expe­ri­ences. No one goes to the grave or to the nurs­ing home wring­ing their hands and gnash­ing their teeth and just wish­ing they’d served on a few more com­mit­tees, worked a few more hours. Keep read­ing »

Worse Than Negative Thinking

You know what’s worse than neg­a­tive thinking?

Beating your­self up for neg­a­tive thinking.

It’s actu­ally pretty com­i­cal, when you think about it, to deal with neg­a­tive think­ing by think­ing neg­a­tively about your neg­a­tive think­ing. Keep read­ing »

Magic Dance!

After a period of major life tran­si­tion, the dust has finally set­tled and it’s time to DANCE! Thank you so much for being part of the com­mu­nity here at Being Joy. As always, this dance is for YOU! Keep read­ing »

Love Letters

In June of 2009, I gave myself a pow­er­ful gift. Before leav­ing my class­room for the sum­mer, I pulled out a box of note­cards from my desk and wrote myself ten notes. My lessons were orga­nized in fold­ers labeled by month, so I dropped one note­card inside each monthly folder. Keep read­ing »

Got Dreams?

Hey every­one! My “Discover Your Dreams” tele­con­fer­ence (you know, the totally FREE one?) is just about two weeks away! I wanted to take a minute to share with you a lit­tle bit about WHY I’m offer­ing this and WHAT you can expect as a par­tic­i­pant. Enjoy! Keep read­ing »

More Group Fun!

I think it’s high time we had some more fun group inter­ac­tion, don’t you agree? So here’s my lat­est zany idea for get­ting to know one another: Below, I have listed 5 word pairs. Without over-thinking, stress­ing, or obsess­ing, choose the word from each pair that most res­onates with your essen­tial self. Go with your gut. Then post your string of cho­sen words in the com­ments sec­tion below. Keep read­ing »

Food = No Big Deal

One of the best things that’s hap­pened to me in the last year is that food is no longer such a big deal in my life. In fact, most of the time, it’s a total non-issue.

Sometimes, though, I’m tempted to worry about the fact that I no longer worry about what I eat. We are liv­ing in an age where eat­ing “right” requires obsess­ing and ana­lyz­ing. “Healthy” eat­ing requires read­ing book after book, watch­ing scads of dis­turb­ing doc­u­men­taries, and fol­low­ing long lists of rules and require­ments from all sorts of so-called experts. Keep read­ing »

Boxed In — Guest Post by Susan Scofield

“My body is the only box

I belong in.
But you like your boxes
So keep them.
Mark them geek, wimp, bully.
Mark them china doll, brainiac,
Or plain dumb jock.
Choose what­ever
Box you like, Mike.
Just dont’t put me
In one, son.
Believe me,
I won’t fit.”  — Excerpt from “Black Box” by Devon Hope in Bronx Masquerade (Nikki Grimes)

Teachers talk. They are quite will­ing to share with each other which chil­dren push their but­tons, and which ones they’ll enjoy hand­ing off to the edu­ca­tors in the next grade level. During my first week of teach­ing, I lis­tened closely to the remarks of each teacher, mak­ing care­ful notes. Keep read­ing »

Back to School

Tis the sea­son of “back to school.” This is the first time since kinder­garten, that I will not be return­ing to a school build­ing and spend­ing the next nine months in a class­room. Some of my teacher friends have jok­ingly expressed jeal­ousy over this, as if I’ve won the lot­tery or some­thing. The truth is that I made very delib­er­ate (and often dif­fi­cult) choices and about start­ing a new career path. I didn’t luck into it, that’s for sure. Keep read­ing »

Women Food and God — Book Club

Hey every­one! Here’s a quick Sunday bonus for you. My new blog­ger friend, Christie of Honoring Health, is start­ing a vir­tual book club. The first book will be Geneen Roth’s Women, Food and God. Keep read­ing »

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