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Guided Meditation: Clear Away the Excess in Life

A few weeks ago, I was explaining to someone why and how it is I create guided meditations. Sometimes they are messages I need in my own life, and I share them because I hope they will help others too. Other times I get an overwhelming urge within me to share a particular meditation that comes to me often when I am meditating myself. Most of the time it feels like the meditations comes through …

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Do You Feel Stuck In A Rut?

The following is a guest post by Bob Sullivan, co-author of “Getting Unstuck: Breaking Free of the Plateau Effect”Feeling stuck? It can be incredibly frustrating. As mothers and women, Im sure you feel stuck in everyday relationships, in careers, in a creative rut — we all get stuck, and we all hate it. Dr. Hugh Thompson and I have spent many years studying the problem of getting stuck. It’s more universal than you …

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This Mom Co-Founded A Company While Raising Six Kids!

I believe every mom has super powers. Some we exercise everyday, while others lay dormant, waiting to be activated.Im excited to introduce you to some supernova mamas in a series were calling MOMMIES DO THE MOST AMAZING THINGS, hoping these incredible moms, who exercise their powers for the good of their families and for others, will encourage us all.Fittingly, since autism is such a personal cause of mine, were launching …

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Watch Me, Mom!

When my three kids were younger, I felt like a watching-machine. It was as if I had three GPS chips that constantly transmitted the coordinates of each kid. I knew, 24/7, the precise location of each child. In crib. In babysitter’s car seat. In daycare center. At field trip to the zoo – probably in Monkey House. Watching my kids was a critical component of motherhood. In order to keep each kid safe — out of an open pool, sewer, toilet, or kidnapper’s hands — I needed to know where each one was.

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The Many Pitfalls of Multi-Tasking

“Multi-tasking = Screwing everything up simultaneously.” – Anonymous I read a recent article saying students who multi-tasked while studying (watching Glee or tweeting, for instance) got worse grades and retained less information, but felt happier. Excuse me, but this is a stupid study. What mother who has wrangled with her kids over homework couldnt tell you the same?