Attachment styles created at infancy…are they a template for our future relationships? Did our parents’ certain parenting style in raising us from infancy impact the quality of our adult romantic relationships? Well, based on a few amazing studies, it does in fact seem that an infant’s attachment style forms a model for future relationships. Based…
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Here is your reminder to look for your daily delights today. I’m sure once you take a look around your day, you’ll see how many (mini or big) delights have always been sitting there, just minding their own business, waiting to be noticed; to be appreciated. On this particular day, I sang aloud as I…
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Robert Schumann was one of the greatest composers during the Romantic era. Robert was born in Central Germany during 1810. It seemed he came out of the womb having an immediate draw towards music. He began soaking in literature and music as early as possible! His father made this quite easy for little Robert, being…
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A happy, cheerful man, a lover of practical jokes, soaked with topnotch humor, Joseph Haydn offered much more than just a poetic talent of composition and musicality. Joseph’s early life of poverty made him skilled in business deals and quite the shark of negotiations. He was short and said to not be the most attractive…
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Erik Satie was a composer, a pianist, and an author. Born in May of 1866 in Honfleur, Normandy to a French father and British mother, Alfred and Jane. A year after little Erik was born, along came Olga and then a second son, Conrad. Alfred was a shipping broker and after the Franco-Prussian War, he…
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Breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 1 second, breathe out for 8 seconds, hold for 1. And repeat. Feel better? I find that deep breathing really does relax me when nothing else will. No, I can’t shut off my worries with the snap of a finger, and no, it won’t stop my initial panic…
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What allows some people to roll around through life without anxiety or worry, but others rock back and forth in fixation of the possibilities? Don’t sweat the small stuff they say. Who says this? Where are they? Are they even human?! Okay, all jokes aside… Do these miracle people truly never sweat the small stuff? How can…
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She was quiet, shy and a lover of books. Who am I speaking of you may wonder…me? No, though I connect with each of those descriptions on an extreme level. Agatha Christie grew up with a father from America and a mother from London. The youngest of three, Agatha was treated a bit different than…
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” Lord Byron was a deep thinker and a curious soul consumed with fleeting pleasures of life. He loved animals, swimming in the ocean, any adventure to be had wouldn’t be ignored, and he…
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Germs. I’ve always been a very… aware person. Even as a kid. Someone would walk past me, I’d hold my breath and wash my hands incessantly. Presently, I wash my hands before I eat anything, I wipe down door knobs in my own home, sanitize light switches and remotes, keep sanitizer in my car and…
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