Tips and Tools

Practical Tips and tools to help you in your spiritual and personal growth journey.

Your Guide to Fun in 4 Steps

By Rebecca A. Watson Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun. —Randy Pausch   A few months back I went to a friend’s birthday party. We grilled, chatted, and played board games, among other things. When I returned home,…

Life Treats You the Way You Treat You

By Jonathan R. Wachtel Your relationship with everyone and everything around you is a reflection of your relationship with yourself. Everything that you think and feel toward anyone else—whether you say it or act on it or not—is a reflection…

Embracing Change

By Sarah Sparks   Sometimes we think we know best. Sometimes we exist in this world pretending to be someone we are not. Sometimes what we think we know is holding us back from becoming who we were meant to…

When You Talk to Yourself, Who Answers?

By Noelle Sterne When you talk to yourself, what do you hear? Who’s really talking? Inside our heads, we’re always talking to ourselves. We hear many voices, and most of the time they’re far from friendly: “Hey, stupid, use the…

Are You Getting What You’re Asking For?

By Joeel A. Rivera, M.Ed. Have you ever heard the phrase, “life will give you what you ask of it?” This is a phrase that I have heard off and on, but for a long time I never paid any…

A Cup of Coffee with an Angel

By Andrea Louca I often visualized myself being able to achieve more, being an inspiration to many. I was a fighter and wanted to stand up and fend for others, and had been that way from a very young age.…

Want to Change? Reframe

By Noelle Sterne Many wise people have observed how most of us dislike change, even hate and fight against it, and many equally wise people have observed that change must take place. If we want to improve our situations and…

Break Through the Change Cycle

By Natalie Rivera Nothing in life stands still. Science has shown us that the entire human body—every cell—completely regenerates itself within a span of about seven years. Brain scientists and psychologists have agreed that in each moment our brains are…

A Little Change Makes a Big Difference

By Joeel A. Rivera, M.Ed. Not sure you’re ready for change? … or to take the leap to follow a different path?… or to change what feels comfortable?  No worries, I will share a secret that we all know but…

3 Tips for Accomplishing Anything

By Rebecca A. Watson   Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. —Thomas Carlyle About a month ago, I finished knitting my first sweater. I’m so proud of it. I think I’ve worn it more often than anything else in…