The V-Word

Join us as we talk with Sharon MacFarland, owner of Emerita products, a leading national brand of natural wellness products for women. She has been focused on female wellness products and natural menopause solutions and describes her work as empowering women through all their life cycles. If ever a business woman knew her hormones, she is the one. So inspired to education, she was a primary...

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” -Ram Dass

I feel like I should not still be susceptible to the negativity bias, not within hours of feeling so in love with life and optimistic about my potential. It’s not personal I realize, it is built into our brain structures, kind of like our back-up...

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” -William James

There is an incredible satisfaction to getting a task done that has been weighing on you. I am so close to completing my first book that I can taste it. Attending to the details for closure is hard for a big picture thinker like me. Today, with the help of my journalism student daughter, I am proud to...

“Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” Buckminster Fuller

Lately the idea of getting rid of old, unwanted and unnecessary stuff has been on my mind. Perhaps it is the urge toward spring cleaning that comes from witnessing the budding trees and bulbs pushing up through the cold ground that reminds us of nature’s perpetual cycle of rebirth. It...

Discover the new world of brain science and positive psychology with Rick Hanson, PhD, neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. Listen to this conversation full of insight and ready to use tips to get your life and love moving in a positive direction. Guaranteed to change the way you think about how your mind works with your brain.

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” Mark Twain

There are some days that defy our expectations to such a degree that you have to ask yourself how you could have been so far off in your thinking. The weather has been unseasonably spring-like here in the Northwest. Balmy days and brilliant sun are holidays for us and so as the week kept promising more of the same in all the...

“When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.” -Oscar De La Renta

The most underrated sense that we have is our sense of smell. Whether it is the smell of food at the ready, fresh flower blossoms on a tree or the scent of someone leaning in to kiss you, our sense of smell wakes up one of the most primary...

“We shall not cease from exploring, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~T.S. Eliot

I am becoming reacquainted with the power of goal setting lately. I used to teach how the power of our written intentions can change your life, and for many years kept regular lists of what I was working to create. Even a to-do list carries some...

“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.” Adlai E. Stevenson

From the moment I lifted my groggy head off the pillow, too tired to begin a new day, I struggled with the companionship and affiliation that fatigue keeps with negativity. It is like an invisible cloak that accompanies the tired mind,...