Heartbreath Living

07/31/2025

Celebrating my 10th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

07/30/2025

Support
As the month of July winds down, I find myself advocating for the need of support. The support I'm referring to is not financial support. The support I'm referring to is not physical assistance in the case of a medical condition. The support I am referring to is support that comes from a place of emotional support. Emotional support means encouragement and honesty. Encouragement is about recognizing one's strengths and honesty is about not telling me what i want to hear, but what I need to hear. Advocating for support means to me, I need the support of others. I need the encouragement of the Technology Coordinator at my local library to assist with helping me to organize my files, to help with the steps of getting text from one place to another. I need the support that comes from my volunteer work at the local history museum that encourages me to expand my creative expression. I need my support team at Three Point Healthcare to not only believe in my ability to learn skills to help with an injury, but I deeply value the nutritional support and behavioral health support to build sustainable habits that can be tricky to maintain. I need the additional digital support that comes from amazingly talented young people I encounter in various ways. I do not think I am the only one that thinks this world is difficult and complicated. I do not think I am the only one that finds it challenging to get through a day. Obviously I need the support of my husband, sister, and family members, yet they are individuals who have their own complex lives. I need the support of friends that make up my tribe, yet they are distant, and I am now experiencing the loss of friends through illness. Paths I find to support can be through creative expression such as my art work and enjoying my freshwater aquarium.
As I write this, I hear the unmistakable sounds of branches breaking and trees for one reason or another being cut down. Perhaps the roots of the trees were creating problems in the sewer lines, or maybe the trees were in the way of a construction project, or maybe someone became tired or bored, or maybe the trees themselves had come to the end of their natural life cycle. The reader may wonder what does this have to do with emotional support. I consider the support, the energy of encouragement to be a vital entity. I do have issues with dismissive, disinterested attitudes. Attitudes that have a tendency to be narrow. Attitudes that are rigid. I do not find them to be nurturing of growth. Pathways to support are external, and yet there is a component of internal support that is necessary.

07/30/2025

A lapse in addiction recovery is not a reason to give up.

07/30/2025

02/18/2025

With HeartMath Institute – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 3 months in a row. 🎉

02/18/2025

This is from the author of "Wisdom of Menopause"

01/13/2025

Beauty in a moment....

01/13/2025

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

11/10/2024

I really felt inspired by heart intentions call in January, the first of 2024.

HeartMath Institute

11/09/2024

A gentle reminder....

"We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time as it is given us to do."
A Wind in the Door

11/09/2024

Just as every great organization has core values, a purpose statement, and clearly defined quarterly, yearly, and 3- to 5-year goals, you should too.