Why Having a Savings Account is so Important Maintaining an emergency savings account may be the most important difference between those who manage to stay afloat and those who sink in debt. Many Americans are finding it hard to save money. National polls conducted in 2018 show that 58% of Americans have less than $1,000 in […]
Get Outside, Spring is in the Air!
It honestly feels like a whole new world now that it stays light past 4:30 p.m. I find myself thinking, “Wow, there’s so much to do, and I still have daylight to do it!” If you are anything like me, you become a bit of a hermit in the winter, eagerly awaiting for spring to […]
The Gift of Self-Compassion
We can be extremely hard on ourselves! Our tendency towards being chronically self-critical has been called the “trance of unworthiness.” In Tara Brach’s, Ph.D., article, “Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness,” she argues that this is not just a personal experience but a societal epidemic of feeling unworthy and deficient. At an early age we […]