For those of you who don’t live locally and don’t know what Gasparilla is, as there’s no way you live here and don’t know what Gasparilla is. It’s a magical day where everyone dresses up like a pirate and starts drinking at about 7am. You can scream for beads as the parade passes or if […]

Now that we are a few weeks into the New Year, how are those resolutions going?  I’m not trying to be pessimistic here, but if I were to take a guess, I’m guessing keeping those resolutions that you really hoped you’d keep for the WHOLE YEAR, those resolutions that would change your life, are getting […]

Personally and professionally I know this time of year is tough for many reasons and that many of us (myself included) get through the holidays with a little liquid courage from time to time.  Some of us may be good with a glass every now and again. But when sobriety is something you are working […]

Like many people I suppose, a lot of ideas come to me when I’m listening to music.  Fair warning, to all my non-country music lovers… I’m a country music fan. So a lot of the time my ‘inspo’ comes from country songs and I am not afraid to admit it! You can’t blame a girl, […]

I’ve been seeing a theme in my blogs recently and maybe because it feels that this theme has also been happening in mine and alot of my client’s lives.  A kind of “How To (fill in the blank) When You Have A Whole Lot of Shit Going On” theme.   With the holidays upon us the general idea of being […]

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming To Bring You This Update!  Hi, Hi, Hi! …giving everyone a mini update on ME, not the Therapist/Life Coach version of me, but ME!  Just so you know that I know, I’m well aware that any social media stuff you see “looks” like I have my sh** together (after all, that […]

Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My!  Ain’t got nothing on Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness, Sadness, Fear, Trauma, Panic and the list goes on…talk about…Oh My!  If you’re reading this right now, it’s likely that you and I both know that life is not all sunshine and rainbows. Despite how social media and even I may make it […]

Can You Say, You Have No Regrets?! What does regret mean to you?  Do you have a lot of regrets?  Do you wish that you would’ve, should’ve, could’ve done things differently?  What if you changed how you thought about regrets?  Do you think that would change how you feel about regrets, about your past?  NO […]

When we are going through a loss of anyone or anything, it’s difficult to allow ourselves to move forward. Usually partly, because we don’t want to lose the related feelings and memories. That said, I think that most all loss no matter what the situation, is essentially the loss of “what was.”  So looking at loss that way, […]

Although no matter what point we get to, we may not leap out of bed with excitement every morning of every single day, shouting “I LOVE MY LIFE!”  Overall it is within our grasp to thoroughly enjoy the life we live.  Let me repeat that… IT’S WITHIN OUR GRASP TO THOROUGHLY ENJOY THE LIFE WE […]