Dr. Lisa Berg-Kolody, PhD

11/12/2025

Self-nudging, lateral reading, and more.

11/11/2025

Anticipatory Grief 💔

11/11/2025

It’s wild how quickly life can change.

One second you’re living in routine and comfort, and the next, everything looks and feels different.

It’s a reminder to slow down, love hard, and be thankful for every single ordinary day… because those are the ones we’ll miss most when they’re gone.

Hold your people close.
Speak love. Stay grateful.

11/08/2025

Motivation follows action. Not just for running. Simple but hard

Athlete: Coach, I can’t get myself to run. Every run feels so heavy.

Coach: That’s normal. Motivation comes and goes.

Athlete: But what if I’ve lost it? Maybe I’m not cut out for this.

Coach: You haven’t lost anything. Motivation isn’t constant—it’s fuel. Sometimes the tank is full. Sometimes it’s empty. That’s why we build habits.

Athlete: So I just force it? Even when I don’t want to?

Coach: Not force. Just start. Lace up. Promise yourself ten minutes. Most times, once you move, the feeling comes back.

Athlete: And if it doesn’t?

Coach: Then you stop. And that’s still a win—you showed up. That’s how discipline grows.

Athlete: So action creates motivation, not the other way around?

Coach: Exactly. You don’t wait to feel motivated. You run first. Motivation follows.

Athlete: Simple… but hard.

Coach: That’s running. The hard parts make the finish worth it.

11/03/2025

11/01/2025

Allow yourself to be joyful as often as possible. ♥️ ~ Nanea

10/27/2025

Opening to Possibility

Take a deep breath and feel the weight you’ve been carrying. Notice the places in your body and mind where resistance lives, the tightness, the tension, the clinging.

Now imagine softening. Imagine opening your hands, your heart, your mind. When we stop resisting, we stop holding back the flow of life. Space emerges. Possibilities appear, quietly at first, like sunlight through a gap in the clouds.

Let yourself be curious about these new possibilities, without forcing or judging them. Trust that by letting go, you are creating room for what wants to enter your life, unexpected, gentle, and full of potential.

Breathe. Release. Open.

~ 'Opening to Possibility' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Suzy Sights

10/07/2025

Choose a Different Thought Today

A single thought
has the power
to redirect
the current of a whole life.

The story you tell yourself
in this moment
becomes the soil
where tomorrow will take root.

Choose a thought
that feels brighter,
that softens your fear,
that dares to imagine
what you cannot yet see.

Even if the outer world
stays the same,
your inner world shifts,
and from that shift,
new paths begin to open.

Choose a different, more uplifting thought today.
With every positive seed you plant,
the future grows brighter,
blossoming into
a quiet unfolding of possibility.

~ 'Choose a Different Thought Today' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Suzy Sights

10/07/2025

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