Nourishing Nibbles

#NourishingNibbles centers on getting back in touch with your oldest friend – YOU!  This offering features a mix of intimate views from the lives of people who are thriving, expanding boundaries, and exploring the power of gratitude and appreciation.

Carl Gustav Jung

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Jack Kornfield

"Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings."

Relax7.com

“Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. Stop, take a minute, and listen to the silence within you today. Then be aware of what disturbs your inner silence. It could be negative...

Friday’s Culture Casserole: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway!

Contributed by Ginger T. I am trying to overcome my fear of socializing with large groups of new people.  When I was about 5, my parents had a party filled with people I didn’t know. I remember hiding behind my mother’s legs and clinging to her when they were...

Anne Wilson-Schaef

"Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren't."

James Arthur Baldwin

"“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.”"

Thursday’s Nourishing Nibbles: Giving and Receiving

Reposted from Isha Judd's Blog on HuffPost   The disparity of giving and receiving is often the cause of conflict in a relationship. There is almost always one who gives, gives, gives, and then is disappointed when nothing comes in return, and another who takes,...

Wednesday’s Spicy Morsels: Birth Control in the Modern Era

Contributed by Heather F. Last week we talked about birth control throughout the ages and the ways our ancestors avoided pregnancy.  Now we have a huge selection of choices to choose from. Hormone Treatments.  The pill has been around since the 1960s and is a...

Tuesday’s Wellness Tonic: How To Keep Your Skin Healthy

Contributed by Penny B. Skin is our largest organ and is responsible for protecting our body from infection, regulating our body temperature, and making vitamin D3, an anti-aging oxidant. So, how can you keep this organ in good shape? Hydration.  Drinking water helps...

Greg Anderson

"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The law of emotional choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Monday’s Financial Feast: Overcoming Goal Paralysis

Contributed by Robert B. Many of us have big hopes and dreams, but achieving them can be overwhelming and seem impossible.  I know when I think of my dreams I get excited about the end result and then I am immediately paralyzed when I start to think about the work...

J. Michael Straczynski

"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

Robert Holden

"The goal of life is to be alive. From 0-100% how alive do you feel right now? If you were willing to increase your aliveness - starting from now – what would you do more of, less of, or differently?"

Boiling A Lance

Contributed by Michael Levin, BusinessGhost   Lance Armstrong may be, like Hobbes’ conception of life without government, nasty, brutish, and short.  But a personality, competitive and abrasive, by all accounts, is no reason to strip a man of his astonishing...

Friday’s Culture Casserole: The Metropolitan Opera, 2012-2013 Season

Contributed by Maxine G.   When my parents brought me home from the hospital, one of the first things my father did was hold me in his arms and play an Enrico Caruso record. While I did not remember my introduction to opera, I grew up listening to opera everyday....

Donna Marie

"To be pleasing to others we must first be willing to please ourselves; To be loved by others we must first be willing to love ourselves; To be accepted by others we must first be willing to accept ourselves."

Thursday’s Nourishing Nibbles: I Made a Philanderer Cry

Contributed by Noreen Sumpter, Personal Life Coach   Last night I went out for a drink.  I was feeling pretty sexy and strutted down the street in my five-inch heels and my very cute purple, jeweled dress with the appropriate plunging neckline.  I make my way to...

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