Viktor Frankl – psychiatrist, holocaust survivor, and author of Man’s Search for Meaning, is the founder of logotherapy, the idea that we shape our experience based on the ideas we hold about that experience.

While in a concentration camp, after his entire family had been murdered, Viktor Frankl wrote a manuscript, which he hid in a secret place. Read More »

Nothing gets our joy on faster than gratitude. That’s because gratitude shifts our perspective, it shifts our focus, and that shifts our feelings and attitude.  When our feelings and attitude shift, that shifts our vibration, which means that not only do we see and experience things from a new perspective, we also begin to attract a whole different set of experiences to us.  Wallace Wattles had some amazing things to say about gratitude in his powerful little book, The Science of Getting Rich. Listen to this… Read More »

This morning, I took a walk down a country road…. that’s sort of all they have up here in Castle Rock, WA.  For 30 minutes I didn’t see another soul, except for the neighbor’s black lab who joined me for my walk.  The surrounding mountains were thick with pines and clouds – a kind of beauty I don’t see much in Southern California.  And the smell… the smell reminded me of summers on my Grandma Sterling’s farm back in Wisconsin – fresh, clean, misty, and green.  For the most part, I don’t think of myself as a Northwest girl – not enough sun, too much rain.  But this morning, I was grateful to be in the Northwest and to enjoy the peacefulness of walking alone, the beauty of the mountains through the mist, and the companionship of a borrowed black lab.