by Patricia C. Brooks | Sep 19, 2018 | Values
Link to Facebook Live video Two days in a row the guests I had lined up to interview for my podcast had to reschedule. One was still dealing with the remnants of Hurricane Florence and the other is dealing with a death in the family. Last night I went to bed feeling...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Sep 11, 2018 | Shift perspective
Click here for the Facebook Live video What are you failing to notice? When you stop pushing, stop trying to get things to be the one way you envision it has to be in order to reach your goal you can see other ways to accomplish what is needed to reach your goal or...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Sep 6, 2018 | Body Image, Self-acceptance
(Click here for the video) If you want to be accepted, accept yourself. If you want to be acknowledged, acknowledge yourself. If you want to be discovered, discover yourself. We can spend a lot of time thinking about what we want, wishing our lives were different in...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Sep 3, 2018 | Food for Thought AND Action
Anticipating a certain outcome, good or bad, or expecting things to go as planned can set us up to experience disappointment, frustration, annoyance, and unhappiness and can cause us to miss the joys of the present moment. Yesterday I went kayaking with a friend. We...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today is August 31, 2018 – (see August 31, 2018 on my Facebook page for video) Life is a river of passing events. Swift is its current. A year ago I was making preparations to move to France. And I remember I was feeling frustrated, almost defeated, because I...