First off, I’d like to wish everyone a happy Valentine’s Day. I know the sustainable love movie of the month comes out the day after Valentine’s Day, but I thought that instead of reviewing merely one movie (since I was having a hard time deciding), that I would compare two.

I saw the new very hyped movie “Valentine’s Day” last night at the theatres. It had a great American cast and it was a...

‘We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other — male in female, female in male�. We are a part of each other.’ -James Baldwin

The discrepancy between the male and female forms of communication is the topic of hundreds if not thousands of books. Since John Gray’s, ‘Men are...

‘Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives…but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.’ -Bradley Grieves

I always thought of love as the exchange, the giving and the receiving of energy in the myriad forms of life exchanges....

“There are certain people you just keep coming back to…

…And all at once the crowd begins to sing

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same” -The Fray

My relationship with my oldest son has always been steeped in a complex attraction-aversion. The deep emotional parallels we share play out as opposing forces and have since he could talk. I am not sure if it is the deep divide...

“No human thing is of serious importance.” -Plato “The Republic”

It is the small things in our days that open us to both the breakthroughs and breakdowns in positivity. I love lazy Saturday mornings when I can wake up when my body is ready and leisurely choose among the activities that I know make me feel good. This morning was easy and as I moved from exercise to meditation, gratitude and...

‘And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make�’ -The Beatles

This year we prepare for Valentine’s Day with the aspiration of Love for All. The world is demanding that we wake up and realize that the most important thing we have to discover in ourselves is our capacity to love. Sometimes the most challenging work we undertake is following through with our promises to love, other...

“So often times it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” ~The Eagles, “Already Gone”

Today I realized that the weakest link in my positivity quest turns out to be in how I talk, which is not a small hurdle, given that I talk a lot. Now that I am on the positivity quest, everyone around me feels free to point out the negativity that flows freely out of...

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James

A positivity ratiois the number of positive events or thoughts you have compared with the number of negative ones. According to Dr. Barbara Fredrickson a positive event can be something as small as a feeling of gratitude or an attitude which is curious and wondering....

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”- Anthony Robbins

The New Year began under the light of a blue moon, although I couldn’t see it as I drove down a dark freeway in the driving rain. I was trying to follow the lane markers when the car started to hydroplane. Then a light symbol showed up on my dash that was...

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”– Buddha

We all have a biologically imposed hedonic set pointin our ability to be positive and happy. It isn’t surprising when you consider how many of our personality traits can be linked to our genetic code. The nature/nurture argument has clearly demonstrated that the environment of our...

One of my new favorite books on my nightstand is “Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction” by Debby Herbenick, As one of the most well respected sex educators in the country, Debby has answered thousands of questions about everything sexual from people across the country as the primary responder to literally thousands of questions at the Kinsey Institute. Because...