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Live Each Day in Gratitude

As I start the new year, I think about how I want to live my days, and this video captures the spirit with which I hope to walk each day throughout the new year.  Enjoy!   Moving Art- Gratitude

You are Surrounded by Love

Healing Touch is a wonderful modality to bring a person back in touch with their body.  My sessions always include a visualization for my client. Today, I feel like I benefited from the healing as much as my client did. Although I said this to my client as if she was having the experience, I [...]

Is it a Mistake? Or Was it on Purpose?

My mother was the lucky recipient of one of the first copies of my book, and she read it cover to cover.  She cried as she relived the story and felt like the book told the story well.  And then she almost hesitated to call me and tell me she had found a mistake. The [...]

Moving Mountains- One Woman’s Fight to Live Again

Here it is!  The long awaited completion of my book!  I am so excited to announce that my book will be available in early November.  I will have a book signing at a local coffee shop.  Look for the announcement and join me! I am looking forward to sharing my story with you! Here is [...]

Joyfully Journaling

Joyfully Journaling A Hands-On, Integrative and Interactive Workshop From The Desktop Of: Andrea Costantine, Lisa Shultz and the Self-Publishing Experts Team ( Jan Haas, Donna Mazzitelli) Date: Tuesday, Aug 30, 2011 Dear Writer, Does a book or a writing project feel too overwhelming? Would you like to express yourself more clearly? Are you ready for insight [...]

Doing Less, Discovering More

In the last week, I have become aware of how many things I do in my life by rote, so much so that I often am not present to the act of doing them.  When my mind is not on the present moment, I am off thinking about something in the future, or worse, thinking [...]

Everything is All Right!

At the Cherry Creek Arts Festival this weekend, I saw a sign with a familiar quote, but with an interesting author.   Everything will be all right in the end. If it is not all right, it is not the end. Anybody, nobody, everybody   As I am writing my book, Moving Mountains, about my [...]

Happy Graduation!

In my daughter’s eyes I am a hero I am strong and wise and I know no fear But the truth is plain to see She was sent to rescue me I see who I wanna be In my daughter’s eyes   In my daughter’s eyes everyone is equal Darkness turns to light and the [...]

Appreciating Mom

I am making preparations for a graduation brunch for my daughter Hannah and a friend asked me how I was going to make sure the food was stocked.   I responded so quickly and said, “That’s what my mom is for.” I wonder if she really knows how much I appreciate that she is around to [...]

A Writing Space

A place that inspires me to write is my living room in the dead of night.  The porch light casts its glow through the bay window and across the coach as if inviting me to sit and pick up my pen.  It is a presence- the writing angel that calls to me at 3 am [...]

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