explore your health right now and chart a course for better health today ... learn more with this guide prepared for nopl-cicero's senior wellness programming on 9/10/25 here.

discover where you spend your time and practice finding time for self-care, one moment at a time ... learn more with this guide prepared for david's refuge mom's retreat on 8/25 here.

Self care is being attentive & responsive to the needs of the body, mind, spirit. But how do we manage self care at work? This talk discusses the importance of prioritizing personal health & wellness as an important role for every employee. (Read more ...)

Instead of New Year's Resolutions, try setting Mindful Intentions this year.

This presentation was shared online with the United Way of Central New York's Women United in January 2025.

Curious? (Read more...)

“I just spent 45 minutes crafting a masterpiece &I lost it all!”

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Growl. Grumble. Grumble. Grumble. 

Wait! (Read more...)

Is being present good for our health? (click to view)

I was honored to introduce the benefits of mindfulness on health at the Empower Parkinson Care Partner Program and the Sisters of St Francis in November 2024.

Stress is defined as a response of the body for any demand for change. Change is constant, therefore, stress is unavoidable - especially as life gets busier. How we react to the change is the determinant of its impact on our mental & physical health. Stress is not, by definition, negative. Consider a deadline - for some, a deadline pushes performance, but, for another, it causes anxiety and decreases effectiveness. It is not the stress that has the negative impact, but, rather, the response to it. Read more...

Making Lemonade: Positivity & Health (click to view)

I was honored to introduce the benefits of positivity on health at the Empower Parkinson Care Partner Program in November 2023.

By the time I knew I was seriously attracted to women, it was too late to do anything about it. I was a married mom in my 40s. End of story.

I mean, I dabbled in college, but that doesn’t count, right?!

But, when I chose to leave my toxic marriage, a whole new chapter was now possible.

Following divorce, I wanted to do 2 things (in no particular order). 

Get more tattoos. Date a woman.    Click to continue reading...

I offer a unique perspective on making the most of it, or, as I like to describe it, making lemons into lemonade. I have the stories of my own health struggles including congestive heart failure, mini-strokes, and brain surgery, as well as being a survivor of love, divorce, custody-battling, and I also survived being a caretaker of a loved one who died from the cousin of Parkinson’s, ALS. In addition, I offer the perspective of a yogi, and a mindfulness practitioner, as well as a holistic health coach.  I guess that all makes me a compassionate sympathizer as well as a survivor. Read more...

I am not sure where to begin my story.  Should it start when I was hospitalized for heart failure at age 32?  Or maybe when my dad passed away from ALS?  Perhaps when I passed out the day my divorce was finalized?  No…I will begin the day I had four mini-strokes.

Saturday, May 7, 2021 was no ordinary day.  It was the day I called out, “Call 911!”  In retrospect, I had been especially stressed at work that week and was “on edge”, suffering from horrible headaches that I dismissed as stress-related tension.  But, I never expected to recognize the symptoms of a stroke that I had learned years before working for the American Heart Association.

Click here to read more ...