Four years ago, I said so long to 304. I lived there for over 11 years, and she was hard to give up, yet I knew it was the right move for me. I’ve learned through my mom’s passing that home truly is where your heart is, even if it’s hard to give up …
Are you willing to listen? I mean, truly listen. I encourage you to listen to the experts, listen to family and friends, listen to colleagues, listen to the weatherman, and listen to me, 😉 but mostly I encourage you to listen to your heart. Your heart wants you to know that you are …
Have you ever tried and tried to make someone LOVE you (or like you) and all your efforts seemed to fail? In my pre-Positive Focus days, if 9 out of 10 people liked me, I found myself focused on the one who didn’t… even if I didn’t like them. I would spend more time thinking …
I LOVE sunrises! Well, I actually prefer sunsets, only because they show up at a better time of day for me. 🙂 I also LOVE to capture moments by taking pictures. Chicago winters can be cold, snowy, and gray. I look for the sunrise each morning. Some days I know it’s greeting me behind …
Hi! Let me introduce myself. I’m Carol; some call me CC. I am white, and with that comes inherent privilege. My guiding values: LOVE, kindness, compassion, and peace. I admire and strive to be like Mr. Rogers, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Bryan Stevenson, and more. I smile a lot. I laugh a …
I was recently asked this question: “How do you deal with anger at an unexpected loss?” While I do not know the specifics of this question, here are some tips. Please understand that there is not a ‘one size solution’ for everyone. Take what resonates and leave behind the rest. FEEL your anger. It wants …
Happy New Year 2022! I know, you read the headline a couple of times and thought…TYPO. While typos happen, 2022 was intentional. 🙂 Stay with me as I explain why. Often when a New Year is upon us, we take time to think about, write down, and plan on goals that we want to accomplish …
While many people are joyful and excited about the holiday season, it creates great angst, isolation, and sadness for others. The 2020 holiday season has an additional layer of challenges with the global pandemic. Please know, there isn’t one particular way to walk through the holiday season. You get to choose how to move through …
It’s time. It’s time to step into your greatness. Often, in order to do that, we need to release things that are holding us back from our greatness. Things that are keeping us in our comfort zone and feeling safe even if it isn’t living the life we want. It also could be letting go …
What’s going on in your world right now? Are you feeling on top of the world or in a valley? I was looking at pictures of a trip to the Grand Canyon several years ago as it happened today in 2015. Standing on the edge of the canyon, this picture made me think of how …
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